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DFS anyone?
Phil(NM)
post Nov 24 2012, 11:59 AM
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Hi All,
Just curious to find out what's happening on the DFS front. Any new reports? Anyone manufacturing it or another slick plate unit?
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post Nov 24 2012, 06:34 PM
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Phil:
Good to see you are still up and around. Haven't seen anything from you for a while.
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post Nov 25 2012, 07:49 AM
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Allan and the DFS have been real quite lately! good to see you up-n-posting!
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Phil(NM)
post Dec 29 2013, 03:55 PM
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Sooooo. Thinking about making a few updated DFS's. IF I can find a shop that doesn't charge too much to bend the aluminum and cut the expanded for me. Think there's any interest out there? Enough to make it worth re-opening (by myself this time....).

Anyone have any experience using maquiladora's?

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post Dec 29 2013, 04:22 PM
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Phil im glad to see you posting and bringing out the new version of the DFS sluice! go to Maquiladora???NOPE, i have no reason to go south of the boarder
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post Dec 29 2013, 06:09 PM
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QUOTE (russau @ Dec 29 2013, 03:22 PM) *
Phil im glad to see you posting and bringing out the new version of the DFS sluice! go to Maquiladora???NOPE, i have no reason to go south of the boarder



I don't either. I was just thinking it might be cheaper to have the metal bent and cut in Mexico. Not sure I'll do it, just wondering if it'd be worth it.
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post Dec 31 2013, 05:44 PM
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theres only 1 way to find out!
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post Feb 15 2014, 07:24 AM
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I'm with Russ. Phil, either ya do it and find out or ya don't and always wonder IF you could have made it.
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post Feb 15 2014, 07:37 AM
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QUOTE (Phil(NM) @ Dec 29 2013, 05:09 PM) *
I don't either. I was just thinking it might be cheaper to have the metal bent and cut in Mexico. Not sure I'll do it, just wondering if it'd be worth it.



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post Feb 15 2014, 11:26 AM
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QUOTE (Mrs.CP @ Feb 15 2014, 06:37 AM) *
Not when most prefer buying American made products emoticon-object-018.gif ......Just my 2c.gif


Thanks everyone, the hard part is finding the shops to bend up the metal and weld the rifles and frames. So far, everyone wants too much $$, and the final sale price would be unacceptable to me.... I may just decide to sell the design, I'm getting too old and disinterested in it all. Rocks are more fun, easier to find, and sell for as much money!

Some one asked for a pic? Here's a pic of the original.

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post Feb 16 2014, 01:44 AM
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Quit sharing info until you are in a position to patent it, and then patent the living hell out of it Phil. I'd done told you that.
I'll personally vouch for Phil's gadgetry.

Though that Batea I bought from ya, I never could get the trick down. The gravels and clays kept sliding around, preventing it from stratifying.


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post Feb 16 2014, 05:08 AM
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Patent it or not, as soon as a picture of it comes out,someone will copy it! then theyll change something and sell it on the net as their design! in the same breath, if the potential customers dont see it they wont buy it! its kind of a trade off. Charactor or what you do when nobodys looking!
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post Feb 16 2014, 01:01 PM
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Patent it or not, as soon as a picture of it comes out,someone will copy it! then theyll change something and sell it on the net as their design! in the same breath, if the potential customers dont see it they wont buy it! its kind of a trade off. Charactor or what you do when nobodys looking!


That's the old unit.... not the good one. No way to delete it anyway....
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post Feb 16 2014, 01:04 PM
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QUOTE (Coalbunny @ Feb 16 2014, 12:44 AM) *
Quit sharing info until you are in a position to patent it, and then patent the living hell out of it Phil. I'd done told you that.
I'll personally vouch for Phil's gadgetry.

Though that Batea I bought from ya, I never could get the trick down. The gravels and clays kept sliding around, preventing it from stratifying.



Yeah, Batea's are mantle pieces....
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post Mar 6 2014, 05:03 PM
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QUOTE (Phil(NM) @ Feb 16 2014, 12:04 PM) *
Yeah, Batea's are mantle pieces....



Decided against bringing the DFS back into production. Did a bunch of checking, etc and there are wayyyyyyy too many copy cats out there, none near as good, and all of them are suffering in sales. That, plus the hobby is slowly being regulated out of existence.... I'll just keep playing dry-land pirate in the background.

I can make more $$$ from pretty rocks, but even that is being regulated out of existence...
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