On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being bad and 10 being excellent, I would have to rate the demonstration as an 8. One point being subtracted for all my nervousness and another being subtracted for a failed example.
However, overall, I think it went pretty good (except for cutting myself and using electrical tape as a band aid). I was demonstrating my product to six electricians and one important supervisor. By the time the demonstration was over with, I feel they were all impressed by the simplicity and usefulness of the product.
Hopefully I will hear back from the VP with a placement for extremely large order.
And the outcome of the demonstration..... cutting myself and using electrical tape as a band aid...
Six months from now, if we see Johnson & Johnson coming out with a new bandage that looks like skin-colored electrical tape, we'll know you've made your mark on the world.
Electrical tape is GOOD as band-aids...
(It's one of the fw products better than duct-tape for this job)
I's somewhat elastic, so that you can put a good amount of pressure on the wound area, it's waterproof, so not only does it keep the blood in, it keeps the water out, too. and the glue doesn't stick too well on hair...
(I'm a clutz... I KNOW this... )
Edit: and except for spiderman band-aids, electrical tape also looks better than everything on the market... ;-)
Now that's funny, but also pretty serious. I believe flesh colored electrical tape would be a pretty good seller for clutzy electricians. I have seen soooo many wounds secured with black electrical tape, but it just looks odd. Whereas if you had flesh colored electrical tape, it could serve as multi-purpose tape. If 3M was to read this, they might consider a new color tape.
Bruce
EDIT: I knew this one electrician that would literally cut himself up everyday. I could not believe how much this guy wounded himself. It was almost comical. He always had one or two fingers with electrical tape wrapped around them.
So what is harder, designing the machine and making it work, or selling the product to the VP and electricians?
Beyond any doubt, designing the machine and making it work was by far the most difficult thing I have ever tried to achieve. To be perfectly honest, designing a wire bending CNC for spring wire is no easy task. Spring wire is very strong and very difficult to work with, and unless you have worked with it in the past, you cannot even begin to dream of all the problems associated with it. And unless a person has a high tolerance to mental and emotional pain, I would not even begin to suggest building this type of machine. My machine is far from perfect, because everything requires very tight and exacting tolerances, and unless you have a well equipped machine shop, with very knowledgable machinists and engineers, it will be an uphill struggle right from the start.
To sum it up, I would much rather give ten thousand demonstrations then to build another spring wire bending CNC machine from scratch. With the knowledge I have now, it would be much easier, but to start from scratch, take my word, it was very painful.
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Good luck for tomorrow.
On the bright side, even if tomorrow is a complete disaster, I can always arrange more demonstrations.
On the dark side, I only have 8 1/2 hours to get ready for the first one
Bruce
C.W.
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being bad and 10 being excellent, I would have to rate the demonstration as an 8. One point being subtracted for all my nervousness and another being subtracted for a failed example.
However, overall, I think it went pretty good (except for cutting myself and using electrical tape as a band aid). I was demonstrating my product to six electricians and one important supervisor. By the time the demonstration was over with, I feel they were all impressed by the simplicity and usefulness of the product.
Hopefully I will hear back from the VP with a placement for extremely large order.
Bruce
Six months from now, if we see Johnson & Johnson coming out with a new bandage that looks like skin-colored electrical tape, we'll know you've made your mark on the world.
:-)
(It's one of the fw products better than duct-tape for this job)
I's somewhat elastic, so that you can put a good amount of pressure on the wound area, it's waterproof, so not only does it keep the blood in, it keeps the water out, too. and the glue doesn't stick too well on hair...
(I'm a clutz... I KNOW this... )
Edit: and except for spiderman band-aids, electrical tape also looks better than everything on the market... ;-)
Now that's funny, but also pretty serious. I believe flesh colored electrical tape would be a pretty good seller for clutzy electricians. I have seen soooo many wounds secured with black electrical tape, but it just looks odd. Whereas if you had flesh colored electrical tape, it could serve as multi-purpose tape. If 3M was to read this, they might consider a new color tape.
Bruce
EDIT: I knew this one electrician that would literally cut himself up everyday. I could not believe how much this guy wounded himself. It was almost comical. He always had one or two fingers with electrical tape wrapped around them.
Thank you.
Beyond any doubt, designing the machine and making it work was by far the most difficult thing I have ever tried to achieve. To be perfectly honest, designing a wire bending CNC for spring wire is no easy task. Spring wire is very strong and very difficult to work with, and unless you have worked with it in the past, you cannot even begin to dream of all the problems associated with it. And unless a person has a high tolerance to mental and emotional pain, I would not even begin to suggest building this type of machine. My machine is far from perfect, because everything requires very tight and exacting tolerances, and unless you have a well equipped machine shop, with very knowledgable machinists and engineers, it will be an uphill struggle right from the start.
To sum it up, I would much rather give ten thousand demonstrations then to build another spring wire bending CNC machine from scratch. With the knowledge I have now, it would be much easier, but to start from scratch, take my word, it was very painful.
Bruce
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I'll look for ya on the Forbes fortune 500 list.
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Congrats
Bill
I definitely appreciate all the the congratulations, and I think the demonstration went fairly well, but.....
I still don't have an order yet
Bruce
I missed your post... Thanks for the congrats.
Bruce