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01-21-2019, 09:09 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Boone, Iowa
Posts: 342
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Retirement at Cleaveland Tool
For 24 out of our 26 years at Cleaveland Tool, Marshall McDowell has been pumping out tools that change the lives of builders around the world. He is retiring this week and I thought it would be fun to solicit comments from users of his work. Annette and I get to hear it from customers on the phone and at Oshkosh, but please consider passing on a message right to him to show your appreciation of top quality dimple dies, squeezers, edge formers. We hired Marshall in 1994 from a jewel cutter, knowing if he could see facets on a stone he would work well with the details we needed. Since he has trained the half dozen people that currently do the same (including another jeweler). Happy camping Marshall!
(I will pass on comments from here next Tuesday)
Thank you all!
Mike
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01-21-2019, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Austinville, Alabama
Posts: 2,458
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Congratulations, Marshall. Enjoy your retirement, and thanks for your many years of excellent work!
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Don Hull
RV-7 Wings
KDCU Pryor Field
Pilots'n Paws Pilot
N79599/ADS-B In and Out...and I like it!
?Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights;
it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." Miriam Beard
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01-21-2019, 09:35 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Middle TN
Posts: 121
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Thanks Marshall! Your dimple dies and other stuff that come out of that big machine work great! And the one time I broke a pin off a die the gals sent me another sample of your handiwork gratis (even though it was probably my fault!). The main squeeze is awesome too!
Enjoy your retirement!
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Chuck
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7a emp complete, wings underway
VAF Dues paid - 2018
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01-21-2019, 09:50 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: SoCal
Posts: 239
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Thanks for producing top quality American-made products for us over the years. Congrats!
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01-22-2019, 12:07 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Lucerne,Ca
Posts: 272
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THANKS
Thanks marshall, you made Rv-12 build much more fun. And easier to do. Try to make it to Osc. So we can thank you in person.
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01-22-2019, 06:18 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 138
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Godspeed in your next adventure, Marshall! I'm completing my second airplane and I couldn't have built either without those quality dies and squeezers. I think the next time a Young Eagle is looking at my tools and asks: "What are those?", I will respond with: "oh that's MAN JEWELRY!".
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Brian S.
Arrington, TN
SPA Panther N87XP
RV-10 N104BS (Sold)
2020 VAF donation cheerfully submitted!
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01-22-2019, 06:37 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Bowie MD
Posts: 886
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Welcome to retirement and thanks from those of us non-Vans builders (that hang out here).
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Mani
Busby MustangII (FoldingWing) Pending DAR.
Don't be a hater; I'm a cousin with thin wings! 
N251Y (res)
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01-22-2019, 09:17 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
Posts: 2,408
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We are loosing all the good ones, hopefully the kids coming from behind can pick up the pace. Not seeing it yet around here. Stay well Marshall and enjoy your well deserved retirement.
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Thanks Ron
RV-10 SOLD
RV-14 Flying
AirCam flying
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01-22-2019, 10:08 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Boulder, CO
Posts: 4,435
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Thanks, Marshall, for the great tools that I use every day.
Either you made them or you taught the people who made them, I figure.
Good job!
Dave
RV-3B, now on the fuselage
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01-22-2019, 10:54 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Greenfield, IN
Posts: 341
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Marshall,
Behind the scene folks do not get much attention, but quality products make a difference. You certainly have made a difference. Thanks for your hard work, and blessings to you in your retirement.
Dave Oakes
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RV-7A N1243A Sold
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