Smart Parts will be closed at the end of the month !!

[Shirow]

If I remember correctly those rental mags were twice the price of other rental guns that fields could purchase and the fields would def have to switch over to HP unless they op to purchase expansion chambers but even with the expansion chambers, liquid would still get to the valve.

In the long run tho a mag would have saved those owners a ton of time and money. If I ever get a wild hair and the money, I def would open a field strictly using mags.

Do fields mostly still use CO2 for rentals? The last couple I've played at had 68/3000 tanks.. they are so cheap now ($40-50 retail) it's hardly even worth using CO2..

[Ando]

I'd pay twice as much foa decent long-term rental.

I agree but in the beginning when AGD was selling the rental. HP wasn't abundant nor was the knowledge of the marker. I'm willing to bet that was the biggest turn offs let alone the price. I'm sure if owners knew what they know now it would be a different story.

Do fields mostly still use CO2 for rentals? The last couple I've played at had 68/3000 tanks.. they are so cheap now ($40-50 retail) it's hardly even worth using CO2..

I'm talking back in the day when AGD was selling the rental. HP wasn't even around in a good 90% of fields till early/mid 2000. Now a days it's the norm.

[TeaQue]

I sent in my SP1 for repair last week, SP recieved it yesterday, replaced the blackheart board with a new one, and shipped it back out. This thread had me pretty worried But it looks like I'll be getting it back soon

[leloup]

If ADG wanted to, I think they could offer a lower cost rental mag. If they make the body out of aluminum, they could make it plain and fairly cheap (correct me if I am wrong, but I think it would be more cost effective than SS, and a hell of a lot lighter). If they could put the rental at $150 to $200, I am sure you could have a large portion of fields take them up. If I had a field, I too would love to have just mags as rentals...and phantoms for those who want to try pump.

[MoeMag]

YAY!
confirmed by industry person.
"Smart parts is so far behind the bank wont let them have anything made."

[Shirow]

I'm talking back in the day when AGD was selling the rental. HP wasn't even around in a good 90% of fields till early/mid 2000. Now a days it's the norm.

Oh, I thought you meant now. My mistake.

[georgeyew]

Just waiting for the day when the official announcement is finally made

[bound for glory]

real holiday good will going out to the low level people who are losing there jobs at smart parts but please, continue to post about there junk-o guns and for all the dreamers out there, whens agd making a new marker? i forgot the date now that the beast is dead...

[going_home]

12-07-2009, 04:42 Pm

Hey guys I got it from a confirmed source today that SP will be done at the end of the month.

12-07-2009, 04:42 PM

Just waiting for the day when the official announcement is finally made

Dude this is AO, that was official.

[Frizzle Fry]

real holiday good will going out to the low level people who are losing there jobs at smart parts but please, continue to post about there junk-o guns and for all the dreamers out there, whens agd making a new marker? i forgot the date now that the beast is dead...

Not for nothing, but there is such thing as personal responsibility... Do you think Smart Parts employees could have got no other job than theone at SP? You lie down with the dogs and you'll get up with the fleas. Seriously. Who's fault is this mess? The scumbags who took out 12 million in loans and then used the money to start another company. Not us.

There's no way that ANYBODY went to work for Smart Parts in the last 6-7 years without knowing their reputation for bad business practices. It's a small industry and that name has been MUD among major manufacturers for years; even with those who took the licensing option for their electros.

I think everyone here has the right to be a little bitter about the dissapearance of companies who allegedly "had the choice to license" their own designs and chose instead to close their doors. Or the retirement of certain individuals who made the industry what it was, not because of patent reasons, but because they couldn't stand to see the childishness of the whole thing... Tom Kaye isn't the only one, you know.




Seriously, you might not think there'll be a new marker from AGD but take a peek at some of the incredible automag components that've been created in the last few years by other companies. Take a look at Toms new compressor unit. That might not be much, but it's new and it's good and it's not plastic crap served up in a blisterpack at a 300% markup by some fast-talking semi educated con men with nothing but profit and self-serving interest in their minds.

[going_home]

AO Famous !

This thread is now famous !

http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.php?t=3272877

[insixdays777]

The smartparts product dump is starting. 10% all SP products on some websites are starting to appear.

Word has it that after Christmas its going to be complete firesale. Supposedly time is running out for SP to dump what they can before the bank locks the doors.

[WalkingTarget]

Go here

That was a year or so ago, when TK ventured over to the Nation for the great "Gardner Smackdown" as everyone called it. Tom talks about the magic box as well as other mods to the "PL" Automags.

Ahh yes!

Billy G had to go out in public to put both feet into his mouth... Doc N put him on the ropes and Good 'ole Tom Kaye delivered the KO.

[WalkingTarget]

real holiday good will going out to the low level people who are losing there jobs at smart parts but please, continue to post about there junk-o guns and for all the dreamers out there, whens agd making a new marker? i forgot the date now that the beast is dead...

Um... unlike SP and WPD and all the other big names, AGD does not need to make a new model every year, because unlike their competitors, the AGD marker is STILL WORKING.

[CatoRockwell]