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  1. Uni Project - Research Questions - All views welcome!

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    Cheers Josh, it's good to get a range of different comments. Just to help explain a little more...

    A company called Dualit produce a toaster that may be very expensive, but it is completely repairable. While many people buy a bog standard on which is much cheaper, and potentially more likely to break, this Dualit toaster may be cheaper in the long run, a toaster for life.

    I think it is possible to do this with more products, much like how you would sew a new button onto a shirt if you loose it, a product that would hopefully change the mindset of throwing away without second thought.

    What products do you all treasure and would much rather keep and fix than throw away completely and why?

  2. Uni Project - Research Questions - All views welcome!

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    To construct useable products in that vain takes years of complex engineering solutions and patents before a product will ever hit the marketplace, and the cost implications against the mass produced chinesse costs may not stack up. Were in a throw away age now, and technological advances mean most products are obsolete a few years after production. Good luck with changing the populous views though :)

    This is true, everyone is used to the technology we don't necessarily need and we crave that, I recon we can strip things down to their essentials making it easier to produce and understand. The point of this is to change that, even if it is a concept to propose an idea... Just to set the scene, I am a Product Design student in my final year, I understand what you were saying.

  4. Uni Project - Research Questions - All views welcome!

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    Gu'day Everyone!!

    It's been a long time since I've been on the forum, but I was trying to think of somewhere where people love expressing there opinion and I landed back here!

    So just to give you all the low down... a new project I am working on regards new design economies (you don’t need to understand that haha), it's basically a new way of looking at design and its life cycle, for example, designing a product that after it has been used it can be put back into the earth to grow the raw materials for a new product. Imagine if you could put an old bike in the ground and a new one would grow...

    Two that I am looking into are:
    - ‘Repair’ which you should all be familiar with!
    - ‘Jugaad Innovation’ which isn't as obvious but we all do it. This is just a fancy name for all the bodge jobs we do, putting random objects in places to solve a problem that they were never intended for, a great example is that a friend made a chain tensioner with a steel rule and a cotton reel.
    Here's a few research questions if you’d be so kind: (you can see them as you will, try and relate them to all products you have, not just bikes)
    1 - If something of breaks what is you first thought?
    2 - Would you attempt to repair it? if not then why?
    3- During repair, would you do it properly or go for a cheap bodge solution?
    4 - What would you do if you if you couldn’t or didn’t want to repair it?
    5 - What do you think is limiting products from being repair easily by the owner?
    6- If you had a choice of buying something that is rated as being simple and easier to repair when broken, would you buy this over the standard? Or would it just be more hassle to do everything yourself?
    All replies are welcome, I hope you can all help, I appreciate that this is very wordy! Cheers guys!
    James
    Edit: I asked this further down so thought I would throw it in here.
    What products/things do you all treasure and would much rather keep and fix than throw away completely and why?

  5. Product Design - JForrest Design

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    Cheers for all the feedback guys!!

    Good work, Any way you can get some better shots of the helmet? Those photos don't really fit in with the rest of the images on there and it's an interesting design to show

    I do need to update those images, I know what you mean. That was my final year of 6th form project. Unfortunately the helmet is back home and I'm at uni.

    Really professional looking website with some interesting concepts! Combine the full-face helmet with a chest protector and shin pads and you would have riders looking like stormtroopers in no time i'm sure :D

    Cheers, funnily enough... you're not the first person to say that its a bit 'stormtrooper' like!! I will have to thin about making some gear to suit the helmet haha!!

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  6. Product Design - JForrest Design

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    Hello everyone!

    I'm a student at Plymouth University currently on my second year of product design. I've been studying product design since my first year of 6th form. Most recently I've been putting all my work together on an online portfolio...

    http://cargocollective.com/JForrestDesign

    This the my portfolio so far. Just thought I would share it with you all to see what you think and gain some feedback.

    Thanks all,

    James

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  7. Future street trial frame

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    3D cartman :) simples

    Haha fair enough fella.

    I'm learning IT engineering and I learned SW there. If u want to design a frame u have to use well planes and mostly lofted boss base and watching a lot of tutorial :D and practicing a lot.

    Thats cool, I only really started using Solidworks last year, but its very similar to things I've used in the past... very easy to pick up. New planes is the key to making cool stuff, you should look into using composite curves (i think thats what they are called) you can get some really complex lines.

  8. Future street trial frame

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    solidworks is ace for making southpark drawings :)

    Really?? Solidworks is a 3D CAD modelling program... I study product design and use it for project development and visualisation. Why would you use it for 2D drawings?

    Nice work, I'm thinking of modelling a frame and some components soon. Do you use it for a particular course?

  10. Best Of The Internet

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    Hello everyone,

    Everyone loves a bit of banter... a housemate of mine at Uni was bored today and while I was out filmed this corker of a video!! Hope you all enjoy as much as I did when I watched it in Uni with everyone on my course.

    James.

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  12. Echo Lite Dual Disk - Clean&Green

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    fair enough, i get quite picky but i dont mind the look of the protectors, yeah cut it down to like half and stick it on, you could always double it up aswell then

    Thats a good shout. I've always thought that the protectors would be good against general knocks and scuffs compared to a big hit... being carbon fibre n all i thought they would just crack and then a new one would be needed.

  14. Echo Lite Dual Disk - Clean&Green

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    hahaha i agree with you about the team green colour (looks like someone wiped snot on hope stuff to me)

    +1 for the carbon down tube protector too.

    Exactly!! If it was a deeper and darker green... more like a 'British Racing Green'... it would look so much nicer, and it would also suit the 'Made in Britain' factor that Hope have!

    May have to look into a nice way of putting on a downtube protector.

  16. Echo Lite Dual Disk - Clean&Green

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    Looks nice dude! Fancy selling my the lynx frame? :P

    Sorry fella, its not for sale at the moment... That said it is pretty beaten up as well haha

    very nice indeed :D

    glad you didn't take the green colour theme too far and make it tacky, but team green brakes would make the green theme for me (Y) .

    I get really picky when it comes dow to what my bike looks like, just the right amount of each colour. I thought about the team hopes, but... (this will possibly sound really fussy) they're just the wrong shade of green completely! haha

  18. Echo Chain Tensioner

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    I go for the slacker part personally - the amount of tension you can create with the tensioner is nowhere near that when you stomp on the pedals.

    Thats what I've done after watching your video... regarding the tight spot, obviously this becomes very tight. Will the freewheel naturally adjust to this or would it become damaged?

  19. Broken Bones - Casts

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    When i had a full leg cast itchy foot was the main problem but jamming a steel rule down the end soon solved that.

    After having it removed one leg was still skinnier than the other a year later.

    Maybe something a little more 'professional' or practical to sort out annoying itches than using a spoke or steel rule could also be a possibility. That or a more comfortable material to help avoid this. Thanks Danny.

  23. Echo Lite Dual Disk - Clean&Green

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    Gu'day everyone,

    So i decided to do away with my Zoo! Lynx frame and finally go dual disk for the new year. Here is the result of that choice...

    post-29186-0-84440400-1358766340_thumb.jpost-29186-0-53517100-1358766404_thumb.jpost-29186-0-66485700-1358766466_thumb.j

    post-29186-0-22147800-1358766536_thumb.jpost-29186-0-91356500-1358766708_thumb.jpost-29186-0-47132300-1358766809_thumb.j

    Hope you a like it. The spec can be put up on request if needed.

    Photos were taken with my phone so may be a little rough around the edges.

    Thanks,

    James

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  24. Echo Chain Tensioner

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    Blue if you need to, but usually nipping the grub screw against the axle AFTER you have tightened the axle bolt does the trick though.

    The standard grub screw are cup point which do dig into the axle a bit, this is another reason for the chain seemingly becoming slack. Keep riding, keep adjusting, and it will settle down.

    Thanks Adam. When tightening the chain do you do it on the tighter or slacker part? Just thought I'd ask to clear things up haha

  25. Echo Chain Tensioner

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    If you do it that way it will be most likely too tight on the tight spot,this could cause chain to stretch more and also damage freewheel etc. I would recommend you do it this way:1,Set the right tension on tight spot(in this position you can make it really tight)2,tighten up the hub bolts 3,tighten up the chain tensioning bolts some more so they won´t come loose.

    That still wont stop having the really slack spot though...?

    Just put some thread lock on the integrated tensioner bolts. Stops them from un-doing..

    Did you use the red or the blue stuff for this? I just assumed that there would be thread lock on it, I guess not.

    Thanks for all the replies.

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