We know how important it is to source your manual quickly, we know that if you are in the middle of a repair or if a device breaks down that you need to repair it quickly. There is nothing worse than having to wait for days from the manufacturer to send you a copy if in fact they still keep them which is not always the case, especially with the older devices that are no longer serviced.

           

 

We have an enormous collection of older manuals from many different areas and are accepting more manuals on an almost daily basis from interested people who realise as they age, and the device they own, whether it be a Kenwood or Yaesu transceiver or a Sanyo video, a Westinghouse washing machine or a Hoover vacuum cleaner also ages, that the manual becomes almost as important as the actual object itself.

 

There are essentially two types of object users, the hobbyist and the repairer, regardless of which one you are in, you will want your manual quickly and for free, that’s where the methodology of the Manual Museum comes in at number one. We use the universal standard PDF files, which means that the manual is an exact replica of the original and you will see it that way regardless of your computer equipment.

 

Our team is trained in searching our archives which are not stored online, so they can’t be hacked and interfered with. That’s why you have to make a simple e-mail request, a few seconds work, and as clearly as possible nominate the manual you are after and if we have it, we will send it to you. If you mention you are willing to make a donation of any size via the PayPal method on our Donation page, we will send you the manual as soon as we receive notification from PayPal, this is usually done very quickly because we understand you may be part of the way through an upgrade, modification or repair.

 

If we don’t have your manual, we will log it and get our investigative team onto searching for it and if we are successful in acquiring it, will notify you and send it to you. If we find out where the manual is but we can’t access it directly because the manufacturer won’t release it unless a fee is paid, we will send you an e-mail outlining exactly where and how you can obtain the manual. We see this as a free service and are glad to help you out if we can.

 

So in summary, we are an interested group of people, most of us have had a need for a manual ourselves in the past and were grateful that someone had bothered to convert it to a PDF at sometime and we just want to pay-it-forward, as it were and do the right thing as well as our interest in preserving our history before it is too late.

 

We care about our environment and know that the reduction of the dependence on paper is now all but a foregone consequence of modern technology, but we also believe that our children and their children should be able to look up what the original manuals looked like, without damaging the environment. If you would like to become a cadet researcher and team member of the Manual Museum, please write a small introductory e-mail and send it via our Contact page.