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I have always found it difficult to meet someone for the first time and assess what they are like and I assume that is where the saying, ‘You can’t tell a book by its cover,’ was derived from.

It was about 1962 and I was twenty years old and still serving my apprenticeship at BIP tools a factory which was bordered by Tyburn road on one side and a canal on the other ( when the canal was drained many years later it was full of lumps of steel that had been machined incorrectly)

BIP was a contract toolroom employing some two hundred highly skilled people and all would have had their own stories to tell and some would have been more interesting than others.

Kenny Webber was someone I had barely spoken to but I did notice that he was exceptionally well spoken with a very relaxed manner. I never thought to consider what else he did in life but if pushed I would have guessed an office worker. If I had more awareness maybe I could have noticed several more things about his demeanour.

He was just under six feet tall, broad-shouldered, and late thirties. with dark brown hair, his face looked almost weathered. But I had no awareness and would never have worked what his special gift was in life and maybe it would have stayed that way except for one morning that summer.

It was about eight fifteen when the first stories started to circulate.  One of my friends Ray Danks came over and started to tell me what had happened. ‘Kenny Webber’s been involved in a fight on his way to work this morning. A car drove into the back of his car and crushed the back of it in. But you won’t believe this; there were four Irish motorway construction workers in it and they said it was Ken’s fault. when he protested and told them that he was stationary at the time and he would be getting his insurance company involved. They became aggressive and started throwing punches. Someone called an ambulance and the police.

‘Wow,’ I said ‘is he badly hurt?’

‘What do you mean?’ Ray asked. with a puzzled expression on his face.’

Well, you said that there were four of them and they worked as construction workers and Ken is really quiet and inoffensive. So, which hospital is he in?’

‘I still don’t understand what you’re trying to say.’

‘Well if an ambulance arrived he must be hurt badly.’

The friend looked at me mystified, ‘You do know what Kenny Webber does do you?’

‘He works in the top shop as a machinist.’

‘Ray smiled at me, Kenny Webber is the highest ranked martial arts exponent in the country’ he goes all around the UK coaching, he has spent a lot of time in Japan and can speak the national language.

Yes those guys picked the wrong person to crash into, he threw one over a hedge and another had a broken arm the other two backed off.’

‘You can’t judge a book by its cover,’ sometimes you have to look inside.

 

 

 

Smart-Thread is an innovative fastening system that uses exterior threads to lock it in position. A right-hand seven start thread is used to fasten the nut or fastener and a left-hand seven start thread is used to unlock it. One dedicated right-hand tool is used to lock the nut or fastener in place and one dedicated left-hand tool is used to unlock the nut or fastener.

It looks different and is different in how it can be used. 

The nut or fastener loads onto the tool in just one-tenth of a turn and stays there while it is locked in place; it should not fall off if fitted in awkward places. 

Because all the forces are radial, high torque is achievable with minimum wear on the nut, fastener, and tooling.

Where can it be used; nearly everywhere. and on the new generation of automobiles, trains, planes, ships, computer boards, and state-of-the-art buildings, it adds to inspirational architecture.

While it can be used manually it lends itself specifically to robotics on production lines.

The wide base of the nut or fastener means that it sits securely in place when locked.

It has one major problem; it is not available yet. Perhaps your company is looking for something different. contact me.

Patents Pending and all design rights the property of David Tooth

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Despite promises made by successive governments in the UK to reverse the decline of manufacturing the opposite has happened and it is now in an ever-increasing downward spiral.

But why would the representatives of this country suppress something that has the potential to make vast amounts of money from innovative exports?

For exactly the same reasons that Turkeys should try to escape before Christmas but don’t. While some MP are intelligent most haven’t got the long-term awareness or maturity to realise what is going to happen to precision engineering in the UK or perhaps they don’t care.

How many MP’s in the UK have ever been in a factory; not many.? How many have ever worked in a factory; even less than not many. The big drawback with Parliment is that there are no long-term plans that continue for more than a term in office.

We still have incredible innovative ideas in the IK but once an idea is turned into a prototype there is isn’t an easy pathway to the world marketplace unless you start off with money. The innovation hubs that promise help for innovative new products only work up to the prototype stage but after that help appear to be there for large companies who have enough money to fund their own products but don’t use it.

So you started off with no money but what you think is a great idea, an innovation hub helps to channel your designs drawn on the back of cigarette paper into a nicely drawn blueprint. You scrape the money together to produce a prototype. It looks great.

Where do you go now? You knock on doors no one opens them. There are government sites that will link you up to a business that desperately wants what you have developed ‘oh no there isn’t’ (this is where you look behind you)

So how could we address this situation? Set up a video channel on which only aspiring UK inventors are able to post their inventions and offer them help with patent protection prior to their enrolment. Only allow international and other companies access if they agree to a confidentiality clause before being allowed access to the site. Make sure that these companies fund these projects and pay tax on the profits in this country.

Set up an online directory with companies that are looking for new ideas; again I know that there are such things as government business links, but they really don’t work. ( I wonder if there is one MP who has ever tried phoning one of these numbers)

I am sure that if the wheel had never been invented and someone in Humpshire UK thought of the concept now he would just go round in circles trying to get help from the government.

There is, of course, another industrial time bomb waiting to happen that will decimate manufacturing and again it’s one that the majority of the government are totally unaware of; or not concerned about.

Walk into most engineering companies in the UK and look at the skilled workers. Oops most of them are old; fifty, sixty, seventy or even older. Thirty years ago we stopped training apprentices and now there is a wide gap between young engineers and the ones who speed around on badly wielded zimmer frames. And soon there won’t be anyone left to pass generations of skills on.

TIME BOMB 

This is a high-security fastener designed so that it can only be removed by using a specially designed tool which is number coded and registered to specific customers. It resists unauthorised removal by a person using mole-grips, pliers, and chisels.

It sells in several countries including America and Europe and is sold by Fastenright in the UK.

It also looks great.

 

 

Someone has contacted me regarding my products and suggested that I try crowdfunding and I wonder why anyone would be so stupid as to give money to a group of complete strangers.

The best pedal-lock in the world; definitely-maybe. I designed and started to manufactured these pedal-locks when I had my business empire ten years ago back when I employed a lot of people; well the truth is there was just me.

They fit over a pedal in a motor vehicle and prevent it from being depressed, now this sounds very silly but they are made from solid aluminium, have you ever tried to cut through aluminium, well it’s not easy especially in the footwell of a car. The push locks are Low and Fletcher with an anti-pick feature, the studs are through hardened and once fitted on the car can’t be got at. Every lock has an individual set of key and as these are push lock’s they can be placed on the pedal and simply pushed in place without using the key. The pedal locks are anodised in a range of colours.

But here is the best part of their design because they can be used to secure almost anything. bikes, electric bikes, scooters, motor bikes, farming machinery. And unlike chains they can’t be cut through with bolt cutters.

So where can you buy these amazing ant-thief-device? Well, you can’t, when I was sixty-eight and on holiday in Cyprus, I got pneumonia and was so ill that when I got home I was forced to close my business.

So now as you must be aware if you have managed to read a few paragraphs of this website I design things. And will hopfully be starting another business soon.

So I am looking for someone to buy the idea or manufacture them and pay me a percentage of the profits. Or failing that I wonder if the peaky blinders need a really mature actor who looks like Jasper Carrot with a genuine Birmingham accent.

I have spent months working on designing a system that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and I have applied for a patent.

Each one of these units will absorb 48 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air per year and will release oxygen in exchange. And how much will each of these units cost; well that’s the best part as long as you are prepared to wait, they won’t cost you anything. Sounds too good to be true; well it’s not it just takes a lot of like-minded people to change the world.

I’m not sure about the name of this invention yet but I sort of like the idea of calling it a tree.

Oh as a postscript, the patent office has refused my patent application, they said that someone called God has already taken one out with exactly the same design. I am disappointed but normally a patent only lasts for twenty years so I am prepared to wait until it runs out then I will flood the market.

 

 

Yes as I expected Andrew Lloyd Webber hasn’t been in contact with me regarding my mega book sales ninety-two pounds twenty-seven pence and three farthings to date.

I can only assume that he realises my potential as a writer whose books can be turned into musicals and sees me as a threat to his international status.

Ideas are signposts for the mind 

I have just had my finger bent back seventy degree’s, but I never got the police involved; why; I am one of the unlucky people who developed collagen in both hands. this wraps around the fingers and overtime pulls them inwards until they eventually touch the palm of the hand. It normally only happens to the ring and little finger.

There are three ways to correct this. cut the fingers open then cut around the tendon  to remove the collagen

Cut the fingers off ( this does happen to some people )

A collagenase injection into the fingers that require treatment. This is treated as a proper operation and the collagenase softens the collagen that has formed around the tendon. and it hurts but not as much as the following day’s treatment. The next day the hand is injected with anaesthetic and fifteen minutes later the surgeon ( a really nice man Mr Waldron ) pulls the finger backwards until the collagen snaps (like a carrot) now that really hurts.

So now my finger is only bent at fifteen degrees and I am so pleased with that.

Next hand in six months time.

The staff were really nice at Queen Elisabeth,  Birmingham, UK especially the one who said that I reminded her of someone famous. Ah, Steve Macqueen I asked. No Jasper Carrot she replied. Sometimes reality is not a nice thing.

Coming soon my take on virtual reality,

 

 

 

 

 

I was seventy six on the eighth of June and still working three days every week at a small engineering firm in Tipton, West midlands as a toolmaker.

Went out with three friends last Friday to a local public house The Jolly Collier and took some samples of the recently designed Fasteners and nuts that I made at work.

I suppose that designing nuts and bolts doesn’t sound very exciting but I do like to keep my mind active just in case someone is desperate and needs a brain transplant ( best of luck there)

But my friends were impressed with the smart_thread and the other two items that I took along. Trying to get a large manufacturer interested I them.

Don’t suppose Andrew Lloyd Webber reads my column? if you do would you be interested in making a musical of my book ‘Don’t Ever Forget Me’ if so I would willingly let you have twenty percent of the profits , look if you really do a good job on it I could run to twenty one percent.

Can’t spend any more time on this column tonight as I want to write some more of my science fiction novel ‘Clone’ Don’t suppose there’s a good literary agent in the Tipton Area that works on five percent commission or a bad one that works on three and a half percent. Wonder If Andrew would be interested?

After three years working at the first factory Nichols and Lewis, they went into administration, which looking back seems to be a common theme in engineering in the UK.

Fortunately, the company next door offered all the apprentices employment, and it was one of the largest plastic toolmaking firms in the country.

While there I was moved to different parts of the factory it was a way learn a different variety of skills. Now it was my turn to stay in the Inspection department; not very exciting I thought. I was going to spend the next six months sitting down measuring blocks of steel…Still.

On my first morning, a tall man as thin as a broom stale introduced himself to me, he had little hair but what he did have was brushed backwards and held in place with Brylcreem, ‘I’me Albert Brown,’ he said. For the first few months, I struggled to make any sense of what he said. It wasn’t just the lisp but more like the feeling of starting a jigsaw without the picture to give you an idea of what the finished puzzle looked like.

‘I used to be a boxer,’ he told me one day. ‘A boxer.’ I replied in surprise. ‘I was pretty good.’ he said. ‘Who did you fight?’ I asked.

‘Everyone,’ he replied, ‘I was a fairground boxer, a bare-fist fighter, people would come out of the crowd and they would get money if they beat me. not many did. Then I saw his eyes glisten. ‘But one day this guy stepped out of the crowd, he was big but that never bothered me because big people are sometimes slow or clumsy.  He climbed into the ring and as soon as the bell went I knew he was too good for me. I could usually box and slip away from a person if I needed too. But not him he chased me and was relentless, he really hurt me.’ but I didn’t go down,’ there were tears in.his eyes.

I felt so sorry for him and now knew why he struggled with his speech, I really liked him. He used to tease me and say, ‘Hit me on the arm as hard as you like’,  ‘I  don’t want to I,’ replied, ‘I might hurt you. ‘Don’t be silly he replied,’ but if it makes you feel any better let me hit your arm first, from just two inches away. Before I could reply he hit me and my arm went numb. He started laughing. From then on it was a ritual between us. One I always enjoyed.

It was normal for me to have a bruised arm but it never bothered me, it was part of factory life. ‘ I have a son.’ he said one day. He had never mentioned a son before. ‘Is he a boxer,’ I asked? Albert laughed. ‘Got more sense than me,’ he answered. He’s a drummer in a rock and roll band. They are are a really good group.’ They are called the fortunes.

I said, ‘Wow,’ or something equally as cool because he was right they were a really good group and would eventually have songs high into the record charts.’

Albert Brown was a really nice man.