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Registered Member #1749
Joined: Fri Oct 10 2008, 02:04AM
Location: Claremont New Hampshire
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I have been trying to start a business for a long time and i am a mechanic and i can fix blown amplifiers radios wiring etc I am not sure where to start and i still cant get a garage.I have been thinking about selling some sort of electronics kit that i can putt together but still not sure any one elts have ideas for a business.
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Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
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Yes, i have seen your videos, and you seem to be quite a bit like me ^_^. I love fixing electronics and engines and stuff too. The main thing that seems to go wrong with engines is the carburetor, and that can be fixed with either new gasket/diaphragm or sticking a wire through the jet :P.
I would love to start a 'business' but i am too young, and noone would trust me. I don't want to start a business, but i would like to fix mowers and some electronics for cheap(like 10 bucks for a push mower that has a nasty carb, like gas that has been sitting up for too long and turns into a kind of gel and clogs the jet or any other ports), and i would also love to make small pc boards and sell them(like the one on my video) but nobody would buy something that looks like it i guess.
If you can make a good pc board, either populated or not, try to sell a few on ebay. I am sure someone would buy at least one, depending on what it is. Just make a simple 555 oscillator, people can use it for PWM speed control, running transformer requiring a square wave, HHO generators, or basically anything that requires a requires a square wave.
If you do such a thing, make it with adjustable frequency and duty cycle, and put something on it like mine for easy changing of timing capacitors. If someone buys it you can also calculate what frequency different caps would produce, and include a chart.
I would like to do that, but i have basically been told that no one would buy it.
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Joined: Fri Oct 10 2008, 02:04AM
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that's a real good idea buy a large quantity of 555 timers and other parts from digi key or mouser and assemble them make like 10 or 20 of them and see if they actually sell and pre built zvs drivers and 2n3055 drivers for those that don't have the knowledge to build one or even pre assembled sstc parts for beginners.
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crazy4 wrote ...
that's a real good idea buy a large quantity of 555 timers and other parts from digi key or mouser and assemble them make like 10 or 20 of them and see if they actually sell and pre built zvs drivers and 2n3055 drivers for those that don't have the knowledge to build one or even pre assembled sstc parts for beginners.
Yup. Also, i would just buy 555's from ebay. I got 50 of them for like 10 bucks, and 20 irfp460's for 13 bucks. Then, you could get heatsinks from televisions, and fans from old computers.
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Not to rain on your party but have you considered the legal issues? What if someone gets hurt? I would consult a lawyer about writing a legal disclaimer.
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i was thinking about that but their is still a lot to do before anything like this comes together but it would be cool to do the be your own boss thing and it something that i like to do at the same time.
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any one want to start a business
