204 East 15th
Street
Eldon, Missouri 65026
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FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS
Aircraft
Carburetors We do not and will not supply parts or ANY services for aircraft
carburetors. NO EXCEPTIONS. This is true regardless of how the aircraft
carburetor is currently being used.
Carburetor
Identification We regret we can no longer identify carburetors 'gratis'. This
was a service that was badly abused. If you have carburetors you wish
identified/appraised, please call for instructions/pricing.
Catalogs
We can print a catalog of repair kits, which due to the large kit
availability that we make, is several thousand pages. This is available only to
new distributors WITH their initial distributorship order. Companies wishing to
become distributors please call, and ask for Jon. We do not publish a
comprehensive catalog. As we can machine several hundred thousand individual
carburetor parts, the cost would be enormous. Much of the kit catalog is
published on this website. You are welcome to download and print.
Communications
The telephone is our preferred method of communication, and is
answered by a technician with more than 50 years experience on Mondays and
Tuesdays. Telephone hours are 9-12, and
1-4. If you receive the answering
machine within our normal telephone hours, I am on the other line. Regardless
of what this modern telephone may tell you, we do NOT take messages. PLEASE
call back. Emails are answered from an off-site computer where we have the
repair kit database, and the carburetor database. We try to answer emails once
a week, time permitting. All questions other than repair kit availability and
price, and carburetor availability should be asked via telephone. We have no
telefax, and no cell phones. Therefore we do not receive text messages.
LP-Carburetors
We do not now and never will supply parts or services for LP carburetors.
EXCEPTION: we do have some factory rebuilding kits from Zenith. Once those are
depleted we will not offer parts for LP carburetors.
OPEN
SHOP - Effective 1 January 2018, changes in local government regulations
classify us as mail order ONLY. We regret we can no longer accept walk-in
customers, and can no longer give shop tours. This change does NOT reduce the
number of items we have for sale, or the price. Complying with the insurance
regulations to allow walk-in business would require us to raise our prices by
at least 10 percent.
Parts.
Our minimum sale is always a carburetor rebuilding kit. Parts contained in
the rebuilding kit will not be sold separately. Parts not contained in a
rebuilding kit will be sold only with the purchase of a rebuilding kit.
Payment
We accept MasterCard/VISA. We also accept personal or business checks (will
delay shipping of your order), and money orders. Checks, if used, must be drawn
on a bank doing business in the USA, and payable in US dollars. Money orders,
if used, must be either US postal money orders, or bank money orders drawn on a
bank doing business in the USA. We will NOT accept third-party checks or
money orders, nor will we accept any of the internet forms of payment (bidpay,
paypal, etc.).
Pictures
We are happy to take digital pictures of any item that we have for sale.
There is a prepaid $50.00 per picture charge that will be refunded upon the
purchase of the item in question, IF the purchased item is $500.00 or more.
There are no refunds on lesser items. The
requests for free pictures were widely abused. Those wishing pictures,
please call to let us know quantity and poses required.
Rebuilding/Restoration
We no longer restore carburetors, as the manufacture of carburetor rebuilding
kits requires our time.
Shipping
All shipping is done via USPS and
occasionally UPS. Orders requiring other shipping will be regretfully refused.
Small, lighter items will normally be shipped priority mail. Heavier items will
be shipped via UPS (exception, books will normally be mailed
"media").
SMOG
EMISSIONS The Federal Clean Air Act of 1966 provides in part that 'no licensed
shop shall disable nor provide information to disable smog emission equipment
on vehicles subject to this ACT'. This applies to ALL licensed vehicles
produced for the 1968 or newer model year and sold in the United States.
Competition and/or off-road (not-licensed) vehicles are not subject to this ACT
(at least through 1974, which is our cut-off date). We can make modifications
or advise modifications to vehicles of years 1968 through 1974 only if you have
previously provided a notarized letter to us stating that the vehicle in
question is not subject to the Federal Clean Air Act, and specify both the
V.I.N. and the reason for exception. There will be no exceptions to this policy
other than an official letter from the Environment Protection Agency authorizing
us to make changes.
Tags
selling of carburetor tags for 1968 and newer vehicles is unlawful (see above
paragraph on smog emissions). The selling of tags for pre-1968 carburetors may
(or may not) be lawful, but is asking for trouble. We will NOT sell carburetor
tags. ABSOLUTELY NO EXCEPTIONS!
Tax
all sales within the state of Missouri are subject to current Missouri sales
tax, unless the purchaser provides us with written proof that the purchaser is
exempt from paying state sales tax.