I'd be more worried about keeping my gear in a garage, cold, damp and not always that secure, all my bikes are locked to the floor with heavy chains as it is!Rosie said:...Am I the only person worried about having the most expensive thing I own (yeah I'm 18; it is ) mounted in plain view in a glass wardrobe?
Kit lives in it's own wardrobe in the garage, over 3 shelves, two boxes and a shelf for the kit bag where the kit I use everytime I play is kept. The other two boxes are for really random crap, and crap I might use occasionally but not enough to merit taking to site.
It's an old kitchen unit...works fine for me, coverered in stickers & I did a ND paw stancil on it...big enough etc for purpose yet not eye catching enough to draw a burglar to it like a glass-fronted cabinet would...
Though remembering DT it's usually nothing to do with what people REALLY want, and more to do with what will look good in a project, so yeah carry on, those temperature controlled drawers sound good, tho maybe you could focus more on a locked gun-style cabinet for expensive kit.
We've got a bungalow so it's part of the house; not really a garage, it's carpeted, warm & dry basically like a spare room; before it was warm & dry my kit was kept in my room .onasilverbike said:I'd be more worried about keeping my gear in a garage, cold, damp and not always that secure, all my bikes are locked to the floor with heavy chains as it is!
Skeet said:So it looks like nobody will need
"a product that will store and display a persons equipment"
But...thats not a bad thing, if it is a Tech project..because you can then use your research to show, that such an item would not be popular, and hence would be a loss leader, should it go into production.
That will pad out your project nicley...then you can get onto the real deal..whatever that may be.
You could design a decent Gun Stand, like the Hayden Fraser ones, but folding, or something equally useful.
i smell gcse bussiness studiesnewboy said:A "loss leader" is not a product that is "not polular" its the oposite.For example a grow bag in a garden centre shop is a loss leader.The store makes no profit on it (and sometimes loses money,lol)but that poplular product gets customers into the store ,so hopefully then they but other items that profit margins are higher on.
Heh...he is right...I didnt actually remember until after I had written it , that the two words combined as I had done, meant something else...they kinda just came outTom37 said:i smell gcse bussiness studies
My idea is to produce a form of cabinet with glass panels that has slots that hold different types of equipment, the cabinet will have locks on it and there might be a pull out section that you can put your equipment on while cleaning it, it will also be covered with a base coat possibly a black colour with graffiti (graffiti art, not that crap you find on toilet walls) on it, or something like that.Tom37 said:out of intrest, what did you have in mind? a glass fronted display cabinate or some kind of kit bag? a stand maby?