doodah

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by doodah 7y ago
I didn't sell many Squizmo's to people like you. There are a number of people who bought them without even being "pitched." I did witness several awkward disagreements between significant others who had different tube
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by doodah 7y ago
I absolutely did not recoup the cost of the testing jigs. Though I put a joy stick on the one jig that squeezed one tube into the other. At the makerfaires, people had much more fun with it than I would have ever anticipated.
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by doodah 7y ago
That was more showmanship than a demonstration of my personal teeth cleaning routine! Either way, however much toothpaste you use, this could potentially help you get more out of the tube. The payback would be longer, but that's not r
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by doodah 7y ago
Cool! I'll keep you and your company in mind in the future. At the time, I think I made the right call. Now with this machine being available I'm reconsidering. The mold bases are pretty inexpensive too. I could make the same inve
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by doodah 7y ago
It would fit into that size cube and the part doesn't have crazy tolerances. The shape complicates the mold significantly. Even after redesigning for moldability, there would be pretty complicated parting lines and shut offs. Your situ
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by doodah 7y ago
Sure. The product was a new type of tube squeezer called Squizmo (Squeezing Gizmo.) I know I'm biased, but I think it is the best tube squeezer ever made. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1954489654/squiz
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by doodah 7y ago
Chinese molds would have been 2x. Plus all that goes into working with China (as a very small fish at that) I was pretty concerned with paying $20k for what wouldn't amount to much more than a boat anchor. After fulfilling around 700
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by doodah 7y ago
OP here. As someone who launched and fulfilled a small plastic gizmo on Kickstarter and then sold them on Amazon and at local Makerfaires, this equipment really spoke to me. Hence the submission. I 3D printed my product initially and found
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Low cost, all electric, benchtop injection molding machine(apsx.com)
112 points by doodah 7y ago|64 comments
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by doodah 8y ago
I came across Open Cascade while researching how to create an Onshape app and/or a standalone system that would resemble Onshape but for a fairly specific use case. Realizing the complexity was out of my league, I put it on the back b