Where’s my thread

[Terry FordParticipant @terryford]

[Terry FordParticipant @terryford]

Hi,

 

I posted a thread a couple of days ago, and had a rely by email, then next time I logged on it seems to have disappeared. I thought it was perhaps because I hadn’t been verified yet, So I did it all over again, and received a reply from another member, and the same has happened. I can’t find m threads?

 

Camerart

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

You are trying to get someone to make a commercial prototype so the thread has been deleted.

regards David

 

[Terry FordParticipant @terryford]

What a pity. This would be a really interesting project.

 

Can you think of another way that I can find someone, it is surprisingly difficult to get an idea off the ground without giving it to another country.

[AndyPParticipant @andyp13730]

Terry,

You could try posting a request in the Trade section here, there are several members there who are capable and could be interested.

 

Cheers, Andy

[Terry FordParticipant @terryford]

Hi Andy,

 

Thank you very much for that tip, Ill try there’.

 

I am always surprised that for us people that invent things naturally, it is very difficult for us to get there ideas seen. I can tell you that in my way, I have tried the /Trevor Baylis’s and other likely places route, and have have not yet found anywhere yet.

 

Best wishes Terry.

[BogstandardParticipant @bogstandard]

Terry,

 

You will find a lot of your problem with getting someone to make something for you is the time involved, plus inventors seem to think we work for peanuts just because we do it from home. We have overheads as well, I have spent nearly 10K setting my shop up over the last four years, and my shop has to make it’s own living, it can’t come out of the family budget. Commercial shops can easily charge you £60 an hour for making one offs, yet some people baulked at what I wanted to charge them, only a fraction of the commercial costs..

 

I have only just finished doing a project for a chap, and even though it should only have taken a couple of days, because of his wanting to do most things himself, and not being experienced enough to draw and measure correctly or accurately enough, it ran to over 5 months, with me having to do it all in the end. The frustration is immense, waiting weeks for a postal reply, with your machines set up to do just his one job. In fact, I made him the finished prototypes, and have just posted everything to him and he will have to find someone else to make the finished items. I just couldn’t go through all that hassle again.

 

Inventors and people who do the work for them seem to think that most jobs are usually a quick affair, but because of modifications and development during the making, things can take much longer, and so more expensive. Plus people who have workshops like we do, don’t want all that time wasted while the R&D is ongoing, they have their own things to do.

 

After about a dozen projects for inventors over the last three years or so, I have come to the conclusion that it is too wasteful of my now precious time, so since the last fiasco, I have given up doing it.

 

 

John

 

 

 

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