For store designers who are looking for a bit of an industrial look, you cannot go wrong using Kee Klamp fittings to build your clothing racks. Below is another example of how our customers are building clothing racks with Kee Klamp fittings. Our sales team is available to help talk through your design. If you’ve got an idea, give us a call!
Followup from yesterday’s post on the New Industrial Revolution
The most recent issue of Wired Magazine (Feb 2010) has a cover article entitled “Atoms are the New Bits” written by Chris Anderson. The article outlines an industrial seismic shift in how the manufacturing world is changing to reflect the Internet and the world of open source computer software development.
Because of the lowering cost of expensive manufacturing equipment, smaller companies can now get involved in producing their own goods for special and unique products. Because of the Internet, there is a global market to reach when the product might only appeal to a very small sliver of the population. Bring these two things together and you have new industrial revolution where people can actually build a sustainable businesses by manufacturing niche products in their garage.
As the general manager of an online shop that sells connectors and fittings, this article was invigorating and inspiring. Back in 2006 when we first got started, one of our first big jobs was to provide tables for O’Reilly Media’s Maker Faire. They loved the “tinker toy” of building with Kee Klamp fittings. These components can be used to build just about any tubular structure simply and easily. We loved the faire and even met some of the folks who were featured in Chris Anderson’s article (namely Jim from TechShop). The faire was an exciting time, and while people groaned at the price, they loved the concept.
Simplified Building Concepts has been a work in progress from the beginning. We’re not one of those companies that started off with a crystal clear vision. Over time we shifted this way and that to respond to the market. More recently our focus has turned to the development and sale of safety products which ultimately led us to produce a new web site exclusively focused on safety: Simplified Safety.
With the creation of the new site, Simplified Building Concepts is rediscovering its roots in the sale of simple connectors and fittings. After reading this article I hope we can become an online resource for the growing number of folks involved in manufacturing out of their garage; providing them with quality parts and pieces that can be used to produce great OEM products.
Every age has its amount of “interesting things” that are happening. I enjoyed hearing about this new wave of garage styled industrial entrepreneurs and hope that our business can help them bring their products to market quicker and easier.
One of the ways that we are trying to make it easier for industrial entrepreneurs is by providing SkechUp models of our components. This allows product developers to model their product before they build. Take a look at our SketchUp component library to view both components and projects.
Don Sturrock sent us this idea of a computer gaming desk made from Kee Lite aluminum pipe fittings and pipe. Using parts from our Sketchup Library, Don put together a frame that would support the monitor, keyboard, mouse, and chair. So far it is just a concept, but this kind of creativity and ingenuity is what we love to see from people who visit our site.
Visit our Project Idea Gallery for more ideas of what you can build with Kee Klamp and Kee Lite.
Kee Klamp fittings, curved pipe and some fencing hardware made for a this great looking guardrail in a parking garage in Edmonton, Canada. Contact us about building custom guardrail applications.
Paris has a new art center in the 19th arrondissement. During it’s construction and now in it’s opening it is arrayed with booths and signage made from Kee Lite aluminum fittings. The art center was recently featured in Time magazine in an article entitled: A Paris Funeral Home Becomes an Art Center. Additionally, more information about the art center can be found at 104.fr.
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This may be a bit much for the average DIY person, but if you’re an above average DIY master or you work as an electrician or in a tool wielding trade, this may just be the item you need at the top of your Christmas List (No seriously, don’t put it on a list, if you like it, just buy it.. but for your own sake don’t obligate someone else to get it for you… I digress). Now available from our sister site: Simplified Safety
This tool vest from Vest-Tech is a serious tool carrying piece of clothing. Made by electricians, for electricians and other trades people who are slaves to the old fashioned tool belt. The Vest-Tech tool vest makes your work more comfortable, efficient and even safer.
A friend of SBC spotted these clothing racks while vacationing in Northern Wales. He was kind enough to send along some pictures of the shop. If you’re interested in clothing racks, search our blog and you’ll find many other examples. If you need assistance designing a rack made with Kee Klamp fittings, please contact us.
For more information about the surf and clothing shops click here: Offaxis and Rip Girl / OSD
Channing Glover has done it again, using Kee Lite fittings to construct great architectural structures such as the one pictured and described below.
L2 Overflow Scupper
This is an example of using kee-lite fittings and aluminum pipe to support a custom stainless steel overflow scupper on a wood turning studio/residence in Wilmington, North Carolina. The water is gathered off the roof and channeled to downspouts on either side of a large picture window. The water is then captured in a corrugated culvert pipe and used for gravity feed irrigation of plantings around the house.
When you need to construct a railing on the side of a mountain, what are you going to use? Kee Klamp fittings and pipe! What else?!
Friend, David Whiting, captured these pictures of a hand railing on a trail up the Beacon Rock near North Bonneville WA. Pictures like this represent so many of the fine qualities of railings built with Kee Klamp fittings:
Need to build a handrail? Contact Us Today!
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