Any word on this needing the car idea?
I think I look at this whole bushing thing a little differently. I am a poor ass Joe with a supra. I love my car and desire to drive it as long as I can. One of the ways I make my vehicles last is when the time comes to replace something I try and go above and beyond what’s required to just get my car back on the road. I made my first set of bushing from machinable poly urethane not much different than the first guy who made his kid the set of poly skateboard wheels, squeaked like a mutha but they lasted 17 years. Today there are companies that mass produce them. These companies are NOT in the business of making buddies; they are in the business of making money regardless of who pays it. If any of these companies feel there is no money to be made, there will be no bushings. The day these companies feel there is money to be made we wont need to beg them, common sense will take over, THEY will do the research to validate the market. THEY will take it upon themselves to mass produce these bushings and market them to US. Now as for the maker of the current set of poly bushings, I like many can't afford them. I know you realize this is a fact. I also applaud your great work and the fact you can supply them to those that can afford them. Now maybe if you’re interested you could be the person to go to an injection molding company( See Link Below) with either your current drawings, or even have another member make the drawings, and ask them how much they want to produce X amount of each bushing, lets say they produced the entire kit for 150.00 the sum you used in the other post, you add on another 50.00 for your pocket as profit just because your the inventor and then come up with a price and see what the response is from the community to that price. Hell maybe we could find a Chinese manufacturer, anyone ever think of that? The bottom line is unless the current manufacturers see the potential profitability they are never going to be made.
Those are my thoughts, post yours
http://www.thomasnet.com/products/injection-molding-polyurethane-95971131-1.html
I think I look at this whole bushing thing a little differently. I am a poor ass Joe with a supra. I love my car and desire to drive it as long as I can. One of the ways I make my vehicles last is when the time comes to replace something I try and go above and beyond what’s required to just get my car back on the road. I made my first set of bushing from machinable poly urethane not much different than the first guy who made his kid the set of poly skateboard wheels, squeaked like a mutha but they lasted 17 years. Today there are companies that mass produce them. These companies are NOT in the business of making buddies; they are in the business of making money regardless of who pays it. If any of these companies feel there is no money to be made, there will be no bushings. The day these companies feel there is money to be made we wont need to beg them, common sense will take over, THEY will do the research to validate the market. THEY will take it upon themselves to mass produce these bushings and market them to US. Now as for the maker of the current set of poly bushings, I like many can't afford them. I know you realize this is a fact. I also applaud your great work and the fact you can supply them to those that can afford them. Now maybe if you’re interested you could be the person to go to an injection molding company( See Link Below) with either your current drawings, or even have another member make the drawings, and ask them how much they want to produce X amount of each bushing, lets say they produced the entire kit for 150.00 the sum you used in the other post, you add on another 50.00 for your pocket as profit just because your the inventor and then come up with a price and see what the response is from the community to that price. Hell maybe we could find a Chinese manufacturer, anyone ever think of that? The bottom line is unless the current manufacturers see the potential profitability they are never going to be made.
Those are my thoughts, post yours
http://www.thomasnet.com/products/injection-molding-polyurethane-95971131-1.html
