Rubber feet and steel corners

[Luthierwnc]

Hi all,

Here's a handy tip for using both heavy rubber feet and rounded steel corners on cabinets. I've never liked the idea of putting feet so far from the corners to accommodate the bumpers on cabinets so I made a jig to rout a 1" dado in the foot so it will fit over the corner and use the same screw hole.

The jig is just a piece of scrap (in this case, a headslot jig tester) that I bored a 1 1/2" hole in one end. You can also see a bandsaw kerf for a little give. I set the router fence to hit the center of the foot and a little less than 1/8" above the height of the table. If you look hard you can see the dado. Mark the fence so you now how far to go. Then you just mill the feet. Eight of them took 5 minutes.

The other pictures so a completed foot and how it fits over the corner.

FWIW, Skip

[Phil_S]

Bravo! Well done!

[Gaz]

Fancy-schmancy! I'm suprised the rubber came out so neat. Very cool.

[Luthierwnc]

Cuts like butter. The feet are slightly over 1.50" so a big spade bit hogs out the waste nicely. The bandsaw kerf gives it a little play to get the workpiece in and out. On similar applications I'll narrow the end to an inch or so and put in a bolt and a wing nut to tighten it up. The rubber grips like, well, rubber. You just push the foot flush to the bottom of the jig, run it into the bit and pop it out.

Cheers, Skip

[Gaz]

That's neat. You could sell those IMHO

[Phil_S]

That's neat. You could sell those IMHO

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File for a patent, no joke. There is probably a small but robust market.

[Luthierwnc]

Free to the peoples!

Patents are only worthwhile if; a you can make money doing it and b) someone else could make money and have to share. 0 for 2 on that score. If I was going to pick an ideal marketing demographic, do-it-yourselfer guitarists wouldn't make the list sh

[Phil_S]

Nice, but audiophools, you should make them pay. They seem to feel better when they pay and the more they pay, the better they feel. Do THEM a favor and file for the patent!

[selloutrr]

You could patent the idea.
contact the rubber feet manufacture and have them make you a bulk run of them with your logo and patent # embossed in the rubber. (tastefully of course)

Then sell them to supply houses as your custom solution to this problem.
you could go one step farther and also sell prefit corner metal. singles and sets.

The jig is cool but in the wrong hands can be easily miss used equalling lots of frustrated emails and tech support. It's safer to sell the product it makes and not the equipment to make it.

should be able to order 1000 pieces of rubber feet custom embossed for less then $1000. depending on the size and quality of the rubber, internal structure, etc. much less. You could easily sell them for $2.00 each after cutting and leave a supply house enough profit selling them for $2.50 each. If you can cut 8 feet in 5 min. once in the groove you could easily pump out 50 - 100 an hour to fill orders. making a profit of $50-$100 an hour. minus 30% for electricity and machinary wear and tear. I would expect that with the right customer service you could gross $2000-$4000 a year for 15hours of work.

[cbass]

I'd say spend the money on copyrighting and marketing.

Come up with a fancy name.Make up a bunch of BS about how much better your amp will sound and use hand selected rubber, zircon encrusted screws and so on.,

Then you could sell them for $10 a piece.

[Luthierwnc]

I would need to use natural rubber harvested traditionally by neo-capitalist tribesmen and transported by oxen to really get designer mojo. Making them out of the same stuff as tires loses cache.

Seriously, from stick to eight completed didn't take 10 minutes. Taking the pictures was extra but that was in the interest of the TAG brotherhood. sh