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Hi all,

I am Tom McCloud, I started, own and operate newellgurus. when i started it with the help of my wife darlene and my son scott it was meant to be a safe, family oriented and technically focused place to help each other. darlene came up with friends helping friends. i have made hundreds of friends from this forum. many are like family. the moderators and i tolerate zero bashing of any kind. if it happens i just close it down and delete the account. hardly ever happens. as for the factory support goes.....i was at newell a few weeks ago. and had a nice long chat with grant. they are still super supportive of all the vintage of coaches. i am also the one who asked him to join this thread. i have had a great relationship with karl over the years and he has also been very supportive and now grant is as well.

the reality is this......we as owners of newells become the lifeblood of helping each other. the folks that built newells and knew them inside and out for the 80s 90s 2000's etc have aged out and retired or passed just like the rest of us. so newell will do all that they can to help us within their ability.

i have had a 90, 99 and an 02. loved them all. did almost all my own work on them. but when i had to call newell for advice, they always returned the call and helped me as best they could.

i started this forum in 2012 when an older forum become no fun anymore for various reasons. i started this for me and few buddies and never expected it to have over 4000 members. i cannot tell you how many stories i have of people being stranded, or even worse, injured and the guru gang reaching out to help.

i have funded this myself and never asked for a dime and never will nor will i accept anything. my son scott, who is a officer in the usaf is the one who keeps the servers going and we use freeware that is not the newest and best but it works. we have tried to keep this simple and as easy to use as possible.

i frequently get offers from forum/website consolidators to buy newellgurus. i always say no. they want to commercialize it and put advertising on it. i have no need to do that.

so i thank those who have helped me with newellgurus all these years. my moderators and admins and especially my wife darlene and son scott.

any of you are always welcome to visit us with or without your coach in wittmann.

i am done babbling...

tom