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[Guest scottydosnntkno]

Nice looking tool. Designs like the one you have pictured are how many of the tools in the industry started. The question is always which ones to decide to produce. Setting up to make a new tool usually requires the belief that roughly 5000 units can be sold over a reasonable time to recover the initial set-up costs. Many cool tool ideas are never produced as the ultimate market may only be a couple hundred units and the set-up costs cannot be recovered. That is the reason that many industry tools have been adapted from existing tools from other industries. Anyway, it is always interesting for me to see the tools that are being used in the field.

thats one thing that always amazes me about the tools for our industry, is that most are so industry specific that they must have a very small market. Having my family owning a company that does protoype automotive design and manufacturing, I worked in the injection molding department for quite a few summers when I was younger. Granted, the pieces generally aren't on the same scale and production numbers, but even still I know what we charged for the parts was quite high. Even for a comparable part similar to a tint squeegee, it would still be extremely expensive. However, I suppose that our company specialized in low volume runs, so our costs were quite high comparatively.

I don't know if that all makes sense, but I'm just amazed at the low priced of tint tools compared to the seemingly low production volumes.

Guess thats the benefit of using cheap chinese labor instead of making them in america.

[TintWizard]

Nice looking tool. Designs like the one you have pictured are how many of the tools in the industry started. The question is always which ones to decide to produce. Setting up to make a new tool usually requires the belief that roughly 5000 units can be sold over a reasonable time to recover the initial set-up costs. Many cool tool ideas are never produced as the ultimate market may only be a couple hundred units and the set-up costs cannot be recovered. That is the reason that many industry tools have been adapted from existing tools from other industries. Anyway, it is always interesting for me to see the tools that are being used in the field.

I would think that selling 5000 units wouldn't be so hard in this case keeping in mind one important thing about this tool ...I have a slightly "modified" lil' chizler in the receptacle ..but the receptacle is really meant fo a universal size scraper which would reach in hard to get to angles..so it's really 2 tools in one..the scraper part being much more beneficial to a wider array of potential customers..say detail workers for instance where they are trying to remove old crud on the bottom of a deep back window of an Intrepid for example. This tool is better than the existing ones out there for 2 reasons :

1. The receptacle is better because it screws down into a clamp to be totally tight to hold either the lil' chizler in or scraper blade..it does not just slide in and therefore sliding out when applying pressure when being torqued with pressure

2. The handle extension of this is longer than anything presently on the market giving it a better range of hard to reach areas.

What do I know..I'm just a tinter who modified existing stuff to make new stuff.

If any manufacturer is reading this..This aging tinter will gladly take 1 % of sales for it

[Slick]

If any manufacturer is reading this..This aging tinter will gladly take 1 % of sales for it

Maybe you should have patented it before you posted up pics on a popular tint site.

[TintWizard]

Maybe you should have patented it before you posted up pics on a popular tint site.

I have lots of ideas some came out yrs after thinking of them..to out of my league on how to do these things

[Guest scottydosnntkno]

Nice looking tool. Designs like the one you have pictured are how many of the tools in the industry started. The question is always which ones to decide to produce. Setting up to make a new tool usually requires the belief that roughly 5000 units can be sold over a reasonable time to recover the initial set-up costs. Many cool tool ideas are never produced as the ultimate market may only be a couple hundred units and the set-up costs cannot be recovered. That is the reason that many industry tools have been adapted from existing tools from other industries. Anyway, it is always interesting for me to see the tools that are being used in the field.

I would think that selling 5000 units wouldn't be so hard in this case keeping in mind one important thing about this tool ...I have a slightly "modified" lil' chizler in the receptacle ..but the receptacle is really meant fo a universal size scraper which would reach in hard to get to angles..so it's really 2 tools in one..the scraper part being much more beneficial to a wider array of potential customers..say detail workers for instance where they are trying to remove old crud on the bottom of a deep back window of an Intrepid for example. This tool is better than the existing ones out there for 2 reasons :

1. The receptacle is better because it screws down into a clamp to be totally tight to hold either the lil' chizler in or scraper blade..it does not just slide in and therefore sliding out when applying pressure when being torqued with pressure

2. The handle extension of this is longer than anything presently on the market giving it a better range of hard to reach areas.

What do I know..I'm just a tinter who modified existing stuff to make new stuff.

If any manufacturer is reading this..This aging tinter will gladly take 1 % of sales for it

I have I think that same scraper holder head, I got it from like murrays. Its on a 12" screwdriver type handle, that has a cap and holds 5 blades in the handle. Then it has just like yours the little knob and plate that comes off with the teeth, and youjust screw it down

[Guest thatsnappyguy]

I think the big foot slammer and the bulldozer are better than that.

[Guest thecarsalon]

awsome idea great. I am gonna make myself one of these. If you don't mind. Thanks for the pics that is great

[TintWizard]

I think the big foot slammer and the bulldozer are better than that.

Where do I start..

You havn't read the thread if that's your comment

I own both of those ..the big boot slammer is WAY to flimsy for any pressure and the bulldozer isn't meant for what this tool is..a bulldozer is a squeegee on the end..not a hard card...not to mention both arent as long as this which was the main point

[TintWizard]

awsome idea great. I am gonna make myself one of these. If you don't mind. Thanks for the pics that is great

No problem I don't mind or I wouldn't have shared

[Guest thecarsalon]

cheers dude