Anderzander Posted October 20, 2013 Author Share Posted October 20, 2013 Criteria 'a' - reminds me of the works cars. None of those are insured with anyone. I guess the police ones aren't either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike4444244 Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 a nice pipe clamp that fits a roll cage tube and allows stuff to mount to it, I was looking for something like this to put my waffles on the side of my cage or a battery box big enough to take a leisure battery or 2 winch batteries that bolts to the side of the chassis rails to free up inside space, it would have to be up to taking a hefty knock off road though... mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiWhite Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Puma pedal lock. I've had a look at my footwell and a Pedal Lock and think it would be fairly straightforward. The length of the main face of the lock would need to be a bit shorter (or longer, I can't remember) and the bolted mounting point a bit closer to the seat box, but I think it'd work. I remember you saying that not enough Puma owners would want to drill holes in thier floor panels - as they get older, I'm sure owners will get less precious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailysleaze Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 Or a nice 27mm socket that's exactly the right depth to not rub the paint off your wheels when you gun nuts on and off? Yes! But in brace form Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disco_al Posted October 20, 2013 Share Posted October 20, 2013 The locker is an interesting idea - though I'm not sure how many people will want to cut a big hole in the wing top! but aren't wing tops available separately from the outer skin on defenders? what about an x-locker for the sides of 110's and 90's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
=jon= Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Side window demister vents that fit on the existing dashboard vents, that don't cost an absolutely ridiculous amount of money... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 Side window demister vents that fit on the existing dashboard vents, that don't cost an absolutely ridiculous amount of money... The reason for cost is that tooling for injection moulded plastic is incredibly expensive, so unless many thousands are going to be sold things work out expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveturnbull Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 A plug in box of tricks to enable variable intermittent wipers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill van snorkle Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 How about a strong galvanised steel windscreen frame to replace that cast and extruded aluminium piece of junk on Defenders that breaks up and impales occupants heads, and lets the roof collapse down to bonnet level in the event of a rollover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve King Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 The reason for cost is that tooling for injection moulded plastic is incredibly expensive, so unless many thousands are going to be sold things work out expensive. 3D printing opportunity?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landy andy. Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 A plug in box of tricks to enable variable intermittent wipers. Just unplug your wiper relay, and fit a "99" wiper relay, simple. Then you have programmable intermittent wipers. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill van snorkle Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Another suggestion is a heavy duty screw type alternative to the cumbersome, sometimes dangerous Hi Lift bumper jack. Similar to what was issued Standard on 110's, but a bit beefier with decent thrust bearing and worm thread cleaner on either side of the worm nut. A right angle drive crank handle instead of the ratchet would also be a nice feature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveturnbull Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Just unplug your wiper relay, and fit a "99" wiper relay, simple. Then you have programmable intermittent wipers. Andy I'm not a fan. Much prefer to have a proper switch to set the speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MECCANO Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Not exactly radical, but I'd quite like to see a X-lite housing that can be welded/bolted into a bumper (after attacking it with a hole saw). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeyw Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 3D printing opportunity?! 3D printing isn't a cheap process either, but it can produce excellent parts for R&D, without having to fork out for tooling. I very much doubt you could print these parts any cheaper than the moulded versions already available to buy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yudda Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Great Idea ! How about a way to keep the doors open?As in when I open the front or second row doors if I am on even the slightest of slopes I have to play a balancing game to get them to stay open ..... or is this just a case that my door stays are knackered?EDIT: If there was a good solid way to keep them open I'm sure off roaders as well would appreciate them considering the angles they have to open doors at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UdderlyOffroad Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Hmmm Some way to mount a tow socket which is protected and reasonably water proof. I did look at trying to adapt one of the military sockets to take a ‘civvie’ connector, but a seller at Newbury wanted £20 for a knackered one! A dash which would allow permanent mounting of a 7in tablet. These are now at price where a permanent mounting makes sense, for GPS (on/off-road duties), OBD on-the-fly, as well as the jukebox. I personally have a hatred of wires running everywhere and ‘cluttered cockpit’ syndrome. I appreciate there’s some competition in the defender dash marketplace (MUD, Raptor, IronGoat) but I suspect a well-made, configurable X-dash would sell like hot X-buns (see what I did there?). If you could somehow add a side-mounted fuse/distribution board for auxiliary circuits, that would, I’m sure broaden the appeal even more. I second the battery box idea – perhaps similar to the one Mmgemini made - I.e. where you could fit 2 batteries in, but have a decent retaining mechanism, and room for a decent busbar? Perhaps sell as a deluxe x-splitcharge kit. A plastic fuel tank which fits in place of the 110 metal one (pre TD5) – without the need to make chassis mods. Going by MikeTomCat’s thread, seems 90 tanks aren’t great either. Yachty types have small volume, rotational moulded diesel tanks made quite often, so tooling/setup costs might not be as bad as you think Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted January 16, 2015 Author Share Posted January 16, 2015 I'd forgotten about this thread ! Is it all quiet on the X-Development front ? I had hoped that once the sales but moved to foundry we would have seen a host of new inventions ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I'd forgotten about this thread ! Is it all quiet on the X-Development front ? I had hoped that once the sales but moved to foundry we would have seen a host of new inventions ! I didn't forget about it, I'm just too thick to come up with useable and suitable ideas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
need4speed Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I had hoped that once the sales but moved to foundry we would have seen a host of new inventions ! That was supposed to be the whole idea of passing everyday stuff to foundry We wait with baited breath.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Well he did build and design a CNC plasma... and make it up for anyone else to have a go too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 The deal with Foundry was that I would develop stuff, they would sell it and I would get a commission on sales - which sounded great. The bit that did not occur to me was that if they decided not to sell it, however much development work went in - is completely wasted! At their request I spent a few weeks making a draw for heavy cool boxes or tool boxes which when mounted on your wheel box or on the back of a truck would drop the box 250mm, counterbalanced on gas struts so it's easy to lift & push back in. Sent them the design file - and heard nothing back! Either they went off the idea or it cost too much or something else - but whatever happened, I was a few weeks and a few quid on prototyping down with nothing to show for it. I figured I'd wait till something happened with that before I did any more! Shame really as I have a stack of good ideas, not least the ones above! Perhaps the time has come for "Y-Eng" In the mean time I had to get a "proper" job to pay the bills! I'm currently Chief Engineer for a company who make robotic packaging machinery. On some levels it's pretty cool but it's not the same. Another company is on the cards - I just need one 'killer' product to kick the whole thing off with. The X-Brake kept X-Eng going on its own for the first few months until I had the money to develop the next few products. The X-Brake was actually born out of this forum! It was one of the most complained about things. I posted a few ideas and the ball started rolling from there. Maybe the plasma cutter could be a start! I've been thinking about a cheap CNC plasma tube notcher recently. Perhaps selling both would be viable - but the market size I think is fairly small compared to X-Brakes. Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 I think you'd find a lot of people would love a cnc plasma cutter, but I also think a large percentage would also get the hump when they didn't get perfect results on the first ever cut. You'd be doing a heck of a lot of phone support ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 I guess that's one of the advantages of a kit - someone able to build it probably has the patience to experiment to get it right! Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Good point, a similar model to how 3d printers get sold, either as a kit or a very expensive built machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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