The Tools I invented

[AustinRoepke]

I almost forgot- all my engineering and production drawings were done in solidworks. It is a great program because you can stress test and actually break prototypes without ever actually making them.

Wow. The UI looks just like Inventor. Hopefully it crashes less lol

The socket looks pretty cool! I'd be interested in one.

 

[64merc]

I don't know how well that socket works, but I'm impressed that you followed through enough to come up with a prototype. Must of us would have just talked about it. I love the idea, but I have to say, I'm always skeptical of things like this. I guess I've just seen too many gimmicks being put on the market. Good luck to you sir, I hope you can get them into production. If it works, I'd be interested in buying one myself.

 

[benjamin.eby]

I don't know how well that socket works, but I'm impressed that you followed through enough to come up with a prototype. Must of us would have just talked about it. I love the idea, but I have to say, I'm always skeptical of things like this. I guess I've just seen too many gimmicks being put on the market. Good luck to you sir, I hope you can get them into production. If it works, I'd be interested in buying one myself.

It did come in handy that I owned a CNC machine shop and a background in engineering. I am sure every tool guy will be skeptical of it until they use one. It took me well over 100 prototypes to get it right- If you look on my facebook page in "prototype graveyard" pic album you can see some of the old ones.

My biggest problem so far has been that so much junk has come before me(that goddamn gator grip has cost me plenty!), until I get a video shot for this to prove it all I can say is -look what my crowbar can do and think socket.

I have to say I really appreciate all the feedback I have gotten here, In the future I will check here before releasing anything to the public- I do have another three tools I am releasing after the socket and crowbar that are "top secret" right now

 

[sberry]

Take this for what its worth. Yes, you do have some obstacles to over come, Gator Grip being one. But it proves something, a point I will try to make. I had a bud who invent a tool in the same class, its a good idea and it works well. They shot all their effort in the azz figuring out all kinds of production details, trying to round up investors to go into production, didn't spend the effort where its really needed on start up which is marketing, how you going to sell it? They had a great idea but put the cart in front of the horse. The gator grip gang had a ****** tool but great marketing which usually wins the race.
Read these starting with Marketing Warfare, they are easy and give the/some insight in how to get from point A to B. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071437940/?tag=atomicindus08-20

 

[MOPARHOUND!]

Kinda off topic, but please consider producing a run of male drive plugs for female drive ratchets (mainly 1/2"drive). Us tool collector guys can't find a source for new ones, and if you are fortunate to see a used one on eBay, they sell for more than the ratchet typically.

 

[00S4Boy]

Kinda off topic, but please consider producing a run of male drive plugs for female drive ratchets (mainly 1/2"drive). Us tool collector guys can't find a source for new ones, and if you are fortunate to see a used one on eBay, they sell for more than the ratchet typically.

maybe this would work for you.

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item...group_ID=11536&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog

I have the half inch internal 3/8ths external and the 3/8ths drive section is like a pinless bit.

 

[PaulR]

Good for you. Good Story. Good luck with the inventions. Most of all thank you for defending our country.

 

[benjamin.eby]

Take this for what its worth. Yes, you do have some obstacles to over come, Gator Grip being one. But it proves something, a point I will try to make. I had a bud who invent a tool in the same class, its a good idea and it works well. They shot all their effort in the azz figuring out all kinds of production details, trying to round up investors to go into production, didn't spend the effort where its really needed on start up which is marketing, how you going to sell it? They had a great idea but put the cart in front of the horse. The gator grip gang had a ****** tool but great marketing which usually wins the race.
Read these starting with Marketing Warfare, they are easy and give the/some insight in how to get from point A to B. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0071437940/?tag=atomicindus08-20

Thanks for the advice- again I am fortunately in a great position, my day job right now I work for a large media company setting up advertising campaigns. -I do think you are right, if you go to any hardware store there are bound to be a few great Ideas dying on the discount rack -Advertising is the difference. I have a campaign set up and I am still researching a bunch of other avenues. I have my distribution almost completely set up with a few more small markets to find a way into, if anyone knows an "in" for a tool company that focuses on aircraft mechanics I would love the link. Thanks for the great advice I will take it!

 

[Keep]

Thanks for the advice- again I am fortunately in a great position, my day job right now I work for a large media company (river valley media group) setting up advertising campaigns. -

HAHAHA well that will certainly help. Good Luck with this.

 

[benjamin.eby]

Great News! - Not sure if anyone is still watching this thread, but I just recieved word from the patent office that the patent for the Triple-Lock Socket has finally been accepted, it has been re-written at least three times to up-date and modify the claims but it will have a number issued by the end of Nov.-- sweet!

 

[harryhood]

good luck. looks like something I might buy

 

[LEVE]

Congratulations on the Patent progress, that can be very pricey and long. I hope you'll make an announcement when this tool is ready for sale. I'll buy one, or two.

 

[ZRX61]

Before this guy tells me he is the one who demo'd the first few "regular tools" in that video all I can say is I hope his ****** ability is better than his ability with regular carpenters tools, lol

I stopped watching after about 55 seconds. The tv is always showing ads where some clueless idiot is deliberately misusing tools to make his invention seem like the greatest thing since sliced bread... & I don't buy any of those stupid things either.

Congratulations, you lost me before the video even got to your crowbar...

 

[ecotec]

if you make the triple lock socket and the anailator in the U.S., i would buy an anailator for sure and a triple lock socket if people find it to work well. i am a harsh critic though.

 

[benjamin.eby]

I stopped watching after about 55 seconds. The tv is always showing ads where some clueless idiot is deliberately misusing tools to make his invention seem like the greatest thing since sliced bread... & I don't buy any of those stupid things either.

Congratulations, you lost me before the video even got to your crowbar...

All I can say is - You're right! the video *****, it was shot on a sony camera with 30 seconds or so of video ability back in 2004. I will re-shoot it when I get a budget that can do the tool justice. The main point was just to show what the Anailator is capable of, and I did ham it up a bit with the competion, but I do have to say that the Crescent nail puller with the slide hammer extentsion is a nightmare to use- however we all know a good " cat's paw" bar works well- that's why our new version has one on it as well.

I will try to make the video of the Triple-Lock socket much better when I get a budget to work with, none of my tools will ever be a "as seen on TV" type product, I am going for the high end market and professionals usually don't use those types of products -so I gotta step up my video- point taken

 

[benjamin.eby]

if you make the triple lock socket and the anailator in the U.S., i would buy an anailator for sure and a triple lock socket if people find it to work well. i am a harsh critic though.

I am still trying really hard to keep it made here, it looks right now like the only way it will happen is if I can liscense the patents through a company that already has manufacturing capability in place in the USA. While I cannot confirm anything right now there is a 100 year old american tool manufacturer in IA considering the patent right now (A GJ member actually clued me in to them and gave me the contact info)
-, I have my fingers crossed as hard as they go and I will let everyone on here know if they suddenly become available. Thanks For your interest!

 

[ZRX61]

I did ham it up a bit with the competion, but I do have to say that the Crescent nail puller with the slide hammer extentsion is a nightmare to use- however we all know a good " cat's paw" bar works well- that's why our new version has one on it as well.

ya might not want to do that next, nothing pisses me off more than watching people deliberately misusing tools.

I've always used this kind of deal, hasn't failed once...

 

[srmofo]

Im still interested in the triple lock socket if the price is reasonable. That manufacturing company wouldnt happen to always be in red and old white packaging? If not I know lisle is always looking for new products, says so right on the back of every one of their tools

 

[2chipped]

My personal opinion you can sell a gimmick late at night with some actor screwing up his face when he tries the competition's tool But this isn't politics where you run the other guy's stuff down If you have a great product than you make a video showing it works on its own. The reason a politician is a nasty person is, instead of showing that he will be a positive, he's showing he's better than a negative which could be neutral or worse. If you are the former I'd be more interested if you could fly a 1 wing plane if your the latter I congratulate you .

 

[Elroy]

Elroy had a socket that was almost identical to that. If he recalls correctly he paid like $15 for it at a machine tool show back in the early '80. It incorporated a certain "3-D" feature that we needed to solve a fixture problem we were having on a robotic welder at work.

That was the only reason we picked it up because it sucked as a wrench. Sorry

 

[shampoop]

It looks like a very promising idea. I'd really like to try one out eventually. My one piece of advice is this. In the crowbar video you spent a LOT of time using the traditional crowbars in pretty clumsy fashion. That's a HUGE pet peeve of mine as well. It's just like watching the lame infomercials on tv that show people struggling way too much to do simple every day tasks that all of us do all the time. When the struggle is super exaggerated it just makes the product/company look very sleezy.

Instead of going through all that, just show one of the traditional products and briefly explain the physics of how they work, and why they don't work. Then show your product and show how it works differently. That's exactly what people want to see. Just watch this video, and don't use ANY of the advertising strategies they use. <object width="480" height="400" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" id="ordie_player_626737c84a"><param name="movie" value="http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="key=626737c84a" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed width="480" height="400" flashvars="key=626737c84a" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" src="http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf" name="ordie_player_626737c84a" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><div style="text-align:left;font-size:x-small;margin-top:0;width:480px;"><a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/626737c84a/infomercial-hell" title="from Everything Is Terrible!">Infomercial Hell</a> - watch more <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/" title="on Funny or Die">funny videos</a></div>

 

[therealwormey]

That's what i was thinking while i was watching it, anyone can use a tool designed for a job like **** to make it seem like it's **** to promote their new and improved version.

Not that i have anything against ingenuity, but very rarely does someone come up with a new solution to an old problem.

i was thinking before i'd waste that much time i'd just drive in what was left and get a new nail