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getblown5.9

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Finally put it on a year after i started on it by making the cad drawing and sending to my buddy's machine shop.

best part is the cost...FREE!!!

Now I await a certain member to come in here and bash it because I wouldn't buy the $250 part "his buddy" makes and tell me how I am a copycat etc. but I am a copycat thats got $250 in my pocket still and no ugly lettering engraved into my clamp. :evil
 
getblown5.9 said:
Finally put it on a year after i started on it by making the cad drawing and sending to my buddy's machine shop.

best part is the cost...FREE!!!

Now I await a certain member to come in here and bash it because I wouldn't buy the $250 part "his buddy" makes and tell me how I am a copycat etc. but I am a copycat thats got $250 in my pocket still and no ugly lettering engraved into my clamp. :evil
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That's all good you save some money but look what it cost you.... a "year" in the making, having to do the CAD work, I'm sure you had to have paid for material, taking advantage of your buddies machine shop by him not being paid to do the work..... all when you could have just purchased the Staxx clamp. There's a reason the clamps cost what they do and you just proved it. I wouldn't be proud of making a copy. Now, had you come up with your own design.... that'd be different.
 
triton said:
That's all good you save some money but look what it cost you.... a "year" in the making, having to do the CAD work, I'm sure you had to have paid for material, taking advantage of your buddies machine shop by him not being paid to do the work..... all when you could have just purchased the Staxx clamp. There's a reason the clamps cost what they do and you just proved it. I wouldn't be proud of making a copy. Now, had you come up with your own design.... that'd be different.
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it took a few months to make cuz the guy did it in his spare time when he wasn't busy, its been on my shelf for 6 months waiting to install. material was scrap he had laying around. i do CAD for a living, drawing took me 15 minutes or less.

im ****ing proud of it, i got the part i wanted, i kept my money in my pocket. i guess everyone who makes a part themselves that they coulda bought shouldn't be proud of their work? yea right, get off your high horse.


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triton said:
That's all good you save some money but look what it cost you.... a "year" in the making, having to do the CAD work, I'm sure you had to have paid for material, taking advantage of your buddies machine shop by him not being paid to do the work..... all when you could have just purchased the Staxx clamp. There's a reason the clamps cost what they do and you just proved it. I wouldn't be proud of making a copy. Now, had you come up with your own design.... that'd be different.
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LMFAO

How else would you make a clamp? Put some flame designs into it? Maybe you could put a few extra holes in there! But.. it would still be a copy because it's still a clamp!

That's like saying you own the rights of the flathead on screwdrivers, get real.
 
getblown5.9 said:
it took a few months to make cuz the guy did it in his spare time when he wasn't busy, its been on my shelf for 6 months waiting to install. material was scrap he had laying around. i do CAD for a living, drawing took me 15 minutes or less.

im ****ing proud of it, i got the part i wanted, i kept my money in my pocket. i guess everyone who makes a part themselves that they coulda bought shouldn't be proud of their work? yea right, get off your high horse.


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Like I said man.... good for you. It's great you saved money. Gloating about a stolen design though isn't cool. Also, not everyone may have your resources so instead of appreciating the product design you copied, you say "ha ha ha look what I did".... I didn't have to pay you for the work you put into your product..... geeezz

A high horse has nothing to do with it. Without a patent, there's not much the other guy can do. I bet you figure out though that if there was cost involved.... it wouldn't have been far from what the Staxx costs.
 
Lord Tauk said:
LMFAO

How else would you make a clamp? Put some flame designs into it? Maybe you could put a few extra holes in there! But.. it would still be a copy because it's still a clamp!

That's like saying you own the rights of the flathead on screwdrivers, get real.
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when you have a clue what you're talking about.... then post
 
just so you know.... I'm not trying to fight with you, that's Kyles job :-)

Just pointing out that the asking price for the originals isn't really that bad when you think about what has to go into making them.
 
triton said:
when you have a clue what you're talking about.... then post
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So everyone that makes an intake horn on their own is stealing someone's idea because ours aren't marketed?

Sorry but I was not going to pay the $200+ for an intake horn when I made it myself for less than $80.

I think the clamp is cool and he saved money. Good on him.

Just a thought...I have unlimited access to the machine shop at my old tech school and could turn those out far less than $250. Granted I have the advantage of using someone elses machine but still. Those aren't hard to make at all...just my opinion.
 
any way you look at it, its a nice clamp..

if you have the resources to DIY then by all means do it, you did it and did a good job.

people copy peoples designs daily..its just life..

Hell I have copied house plans before..but after I make one change to them they are not a copy..they are mine..

so if his clamp doesn't have STAXX etched or cnc'ed into it..its his design..he drew it and its different.
 
Looks good bud! I much rather make my own anything rather than paying the inflated cost of most of the stuff out there!
 
sorry dood... I'm all for saving money but would rather give points for originality. This is how cheap knock offs end up flooding the market.... ( in general not his clamp )
 
triton said:
Like I said man.... good for you. It's great you saved money. Gloating about a stolen design though isn't cool. Also, not everyone may have your resources so instead of appreciating the product design you copied, you say "ha ha ha look what I did".... I didn't have to pay you for the work you put into your product..... geeezz

A high horse has nothing to do with it. Without a patent, there's not much the other guy can do. I bet you figure out though that if there was cost involved.... it wouldn't have been far from what the Staxx costs.
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i dunno what it would have cost, if it was gonna cost me $250 i would still have my band clamp and angle iron bolted to the bed to hold the stack up.

the guy who made it said he has access to a private shop in which he can make stuff in his own time (away from the shop he works in 8-10 hours a day) and told me that if i could sell them he could make them in bulk and keep the cost down big time. it would have been substantially less than the other guy out there even with profits but i told him i was not interested in selling them. i got 1 made for myself and thats it.

i know i got more haters coming and thats fine, say what you want. i am happy with the part i have for the price I paid and im certainly not gonna lose any sleep over it.
 
If he was marketing these for sale I would say you could possibly have an arguement; but not being famillar with the "Staxx Clamp" mentioned, and not having a side by side comparison with exact measurements and all how can one asertain it as a complete copy?

In looking at the clamp pictured, I would probably come up with the same looking piece. I do own a Bridgeport Mill, and being that it is not blessed with CNC Technology, I would want something that would be qwik and easy to machine. See example above.

How else would one design a clamp to hold a stack into a pickup bed?

That's like putting a patent an a pick up truck stack kit- how else would one do it besides a Y-pipe divider and some elbows?



oh yeah nice clean looking clamp, I like the uncluttered look too.:Cheer:
 
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Looks great! Don't feel bad that you didn't spend $400 on it!:Cheer:
 
I like it, good job. About 8 years ago I swapped a 5 spd into my 66 mustang and instead of paying the $300 for a clutch cable kit from the aftermarket I made my own very similar setup for$40 and its still going strong to this day.


Good for you for saving a few bucks and nice work.
 
Looks great TJ, Id love to have a set of that style but like you said too much $$$$
 
triton said:
sorry dood... I'm all for saving money but would rather give points for originality. This is how cheap knock offs end up flooding the market.... ( in general not his clamp )
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you think "Staxx" was the first company to come up with a 2 bolt clamp? :confused: wow... just wow...

he should probably buy a single stack kit from Grand Rock, right? it's obvious that he copied their setup!!! or was it MBRP? or... uhh...
 
Ok I bought my clamp at Peterbuilt for around 50 bucks and it's chrome and looks really good. But if there is another clamp on the market that will keep by back window from rattling I would gladly look into buying something like that.
 
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