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Hi - I e-mailed the manufacturer for them last week so I now have a copy - if I e-mail to you perhaps you could upload them for everyone, our internet cannot seem to manage it.

The e-mail text was as follows Attached is the User Manual which you will get in hard copy in the crate with the machine. Hopefully that will answer some of your questions.

I think it works pretty well, but pit contents here (and I believe is most places) are so variable in consistency and moisture content that I always advise people that the eVac should be considered part of their toolkit but not a silver-bullet.

We are still in the early stages of marketing. In fact I haven’t really marketed them at all, but have sold a few machines (direct sale – no credit or finance arrangements) through word of mouth references. Once we have had feedback from those contractors we might produce an updated prototype and then market it properly, assuming it looks promising. In South Africa I might be able to sell a number of these machines to local government structures to pass on to pit emptying contractors, although that would not really be the ideal mechanism for long term sustainable demand.

Regarding costs, I need to check our figures for the three machines we have just made for WfP but I think our input costs come to about 2 350 USD, excluding our time. Apart from managing the fabrication process, crating the machine up and dealing with shipping agents is quite a lot of admin for us on top of this cost.

If we were making a substantial number of machines every month I am sure we could get the cost down. At the moment we are buying all components at retail prices.

Hi User manual for an E vac see - I e-mailed the manufacturer for them last week so I now have a copy - if I e-mail to you perhaps you could upload them for everyone, our internet cannot seem to manage it.

The e-mail text was as follows Attached is the User Manual which you will get in hard copy in the crate with the machine.

https://waterforpeople.box.com/s/mf42hvlp8an3qth2i0haa4qi9e2hb9lb

Hopefully that will answer some of your questions.

I think it works pretty well, but pit contents here (and I believe is most places) are so variable in consistency and moisture content that I always advise people that the eVac should be considered part of their toolkit but not a silver-bullet.

We are still in the early stages of marketing. In fact I haven’t really marketed them at all, but have sold a few machines (direct sale – no credit or finance arrangements) through word of mouth references. Once we have had feedback from those contractors we might produce an updated prototype and then market it properly, assuming it looks promising. In South Africa I might be able to sell a number of these machines to local government structures to pass on to pit emptying contractors, although that would not really be the ideal mechanism for long term sustainable demand.

Regarding costs, I need to check our figures for the three machines we have just made for WfP but I think our input costs come to about 2 350 USD, excluding our time. Apart from managing the fabrication process, crating the machine up and dealing with shipping agents is quite a lot of admin for us on top of this cost.

If we were making a substantial number of machines every month I am sure we could get the cost down. At the moment we are buying all components at retail prices.

User manual for an E vac see -

https://waterforpeople.box.com/s/mf42hvlp8an3qth2i0haa4qi9e2hb9lb

Hopefully that will answer Following as some of your questions.

I comments from Dave Still, the supplier in SA

*I think it works pretty well, but pit contents here (and I believe is most places) are so variable in consistency and moisture content that I always advise people that the eVac should be considered part of their toolkit but not a silver-bullet.

We are still in the early stages of marketing. In fact I haven’t really marketed them at all, but have sold a few machines (direct sale – no credit or finance arrangements) through word of mouth references. Once we have had feedback from those contractors we might produce an updated prototype and then market it properly, assuming it looks promising. In South Africa I might be able to sell a number of these machines to local government structures to pass on to pit emptying contractors, although that would not really be the ideal mechanism for long term sustainable demand.

Regarding costs, I need to check our figures for the three machines we have just made for WfP but I think our input costs come to about 2 350 USD, excluding our time. Apart from managing the fabrication process, crating the machine up and dealing with shipping agents is quite a lot of admin for us on top of this cost.

If we were making a substantial number of machines every month I am sure we could get the cost down. At the moment we are buying all components at retail prices.

prices.*

User manual for an E vac see -

https://waterforpeople.box.com/s/mf42hvlp8an3qth2i0haa4qi9e2hb9lb https://waterforpeople.box.com/s/zwitdbkeaz5sbt4uf6xla3k74xcqbovn

Following as some comments from Dave Still, the supplier in SA

*I think it works pretty well, but pit contents here (and I believe is most places) are so variable in consistency and moisture content that I always advise people that the eVac should be considered part of their toolkit but not a silver-bullet.

We are still in the early stages of marketing. In fact I haven’t really marketed them at all, but have sold a few machines (direct sale – no credit or finance arrangements) through word of mouth references. Once we have had feedback from those contractors we might produce an updated prototype and then market it properly, assuming it looks promising. In South Africa I might be able to sell a number of these machines to local government structures to pass on to pit emptying contractors, although that would not really be the ideal mechanism for long term sustainable demand.

Regarding costs, I need to check our figures for the three machines we have just made for WfP but I think our input costs come to about 2 350 USD, excluding our time. Apart from managing the fabrication process, crating the machine up and dealing with shipping agents is quite a lot of admin for us on top of this cost.

If we were making a substantial number of machines every month I am sure we could get the cost down. At the moment we are buying all components at retail prices.*