Now that’s better! Packaging is solved.

I think I like this packaging style a LOT more. Only one piece of 28# copy paper (no cardboard, no plastic blister-pack) that holds the retail labeling and the instructions, and a shrink-wrap bag holding it all flat and together. Niiiice! Let’s see….$11.99 for 200 bags, or $0.06 each, and a print costs about $0.06…so instead of way over $1 each, it’s more like a dime. Yeah, that works for me . And, they’re actually smaller, so will still fit in the flat-rate mailer envelope/boxes with no problem. Cheers, Rando    

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More Packaging Progress…but still not there.

After a quick trip to Staples for some prints on card stock for the sleeve, and turning my old Weller soldering iron into a heat-shrink bag sealer, the four made it through. Yes, the first was packaged four times total and I think I left an extra piece of cardboard/plastic in that one, but hey…first article! Yes indeed! Packaging is a tentative “go”. These will be shipped, 4 in a single flat-rate mailer envelope, to the first customer. This is actually his second shipment, as I first sent him some prototypes to try out. They almost worked, and these will …

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Demo me now

Yeah yeah yeah, heard it all before, revolutionary this, blah blah blah. Okay fine…check this out. That’s FOUR full-thickness HDMI cables in the first picture. Cables can be added to and removed with nothing more than pulling on the arms. They snap around the bar, and they fit normal tubing sizes. You can put multiple of them on a tube and have multiple separate sets of wires routed, all configurable without tools and without waste. No more cutting and re-applying tie-wraps. No more wasting them. No more having to remove the clamp to get just one wire out. Cheers! Rando …

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Pre-Production Run has Begun!

Preproduction results are starting to come in: A weekend with a TAZ-4 3D printer nets around $750 in product, at a rate of about $30/hour, with attention required of ~5 minutes every 1.5-2 hours. That would be kicking the parts off the build bed, and clicking extrude. total waste plastic, since I’m not printing a skirt (but rather a small “sacrificial body” to prime the hotend), is only 0.17 grams of plastic. Me Likey! Regards, Rando

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A Wooden (Demo) Vehicle is Revealed

And THAT, my friends, is the makings of the start of a product introduction. What you see here is a new way of managing wires. Initially for a small niche need, but they’re efficient enough to produce, and represent a genuine need in the market for a re-usable, semi-permanent, no-tools required cable management device where you don’t throw it away every time you want to make a change, unlike wire-ties. There are no fasteners and no sharp edges. Each weighs only ~7gm. You can adjust the tension in the arms by using more of the the supplied bands that happen …

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It even fits over the test fixture

Looks like it fits over the test-fixture. Sure hope the test-fixture’s right (will later find out, due to BAD measurements from a “friend”, that these numbers were wrong. How do you f*ck up measuring the diameter of a tube?) Pink was used here for visibility; normally they’d be black.   It’s the small victories in life that seem to be so hard-won. Cheers! Rando

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Warnings & Cautions

Please keep the following in mind when using 4CELNK-YR cable clips: Watch for damaged, worn, frayed or otherwise dangerous cables, and replace all that are unsafe. Dangling, partially-secured cords beneath desks, tables, and in shelving can in some instances present electrocution and strangling hazards. Be wary! The 4CELNK-YR arms are closely spaced, and there is spring tension holding them together. Use with care to avoid getting pinched or struck by the arms. 4CELNK-YR Cable Clips are not UL-Listed, they are not specially plenum-rated, nor are they flame-retardant. 4CELNK-YR Cable Clips are not a “safety device”. 4CELNK-YR Cable Clips are not …

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