Bits and bobs that finish the job
It's been a busy week here ordering components for the first production run and finalising small details of the design.
Monday was quite hectic getting quotes and placing orders for numerous small fixtures and fittings and also thinking about artwork on the product.
Someday I may do a write-up of how many of any given component you have to buy before you get a discount! In the meantime, it seems I may have cornered the German rust-proof marine- grade cross-thread screw market. Shades of Catch 22's Milo Minderbinder? Well, maybe not quite on that scale.
If it's Tuesday then it must be fabrics! This is a really interesting topic and I'll be returning to it in a future post.
Wednesday saw me driving down to the New Forest to approve the final changes to the plastics tool. Who says you need to go to New England to see autumnal foliage? Just one of the perks of working with BEC at New Milton!
We'd asked BEC to make some changes to the tool, making it easier for the assembly team to do their job and also to toughen-up the product. Looking at the first-off samples we asked for a couple of tiny changes and by Thursday Neil (pictured below) was back on the phone ready to do the first production run!
In this phase of bringing the SleepBreeze personal cooler to fruition - where we are moving from the design stage into production, co-ordinating everyones' efforts is the key. Safe to say my mobile phone has taken a bashing this week. Quite literally at times! And it looks like in the coming 3 weeks, as the components start to arrive at the factory for assembly, life will get a little busier!
Have a great weekend, Andy