just joined sandcast facebook and spoke my piece, as per below.
"It’s pretty much water under the bridge that around 2013 or so that I helped then new SOOC member Marcello Tha locate various difficult to find parts including a round bead rear rim and sold him a “28” carb kit when he was getting his sandcast together.
Quite some time ago, when I was still managing SOOC, I was surprised and disappointed to learn Marcello had started this site without prior sharing his desire, intention, motivation or reasoning behind starting this facebook site. Don’t get me wrong, no one needs my permission to do whatever they want on the internet.
I would like to hear from SOOC members active on this facebook site so I can understand what motivates them to participate here and less so or not at all on SOOC. I’d appreciate hearing your thoughts and will pass them on verbatim to Sam Roberts who has taken over SOOC website management.
I would also like to understand why folks here, who own a sandcast, don’t join SOOC or if they did join SOOC, would rather participate on facebook instead of SOOC.
I have my own ideas about why facebook and not or less so SOOC, but I’d rather hear yours.
Thank you for your polite and courteous replies."