Preview of tetherproducts.com

[fredie101]

So will we be getting any website or product soon... just a hint will do.

[TetherSpout]

Everyone… please accept my apologies for the delay. When I started this thread and announced my coming website, I had no idea that I would run into so much trouble getting my retainers made. After more than 6 months of searching, I had finally lined up a manufacturer and thought I would be in business within a month. Boy, was I wrong!

You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to get anything made in America these days. To date I have sent requests for quotes (RFQs) to more than 1400 manufacturers in efforts to secure reliable suppliers for my spouts & retainers and other products. Out of all those, only a few dozen expressed any interest, and out of those, only a handful have turned out to actually be capable of making them.

Money isn’t the issue. American suppliers just don’t have the capability anymore. Either that, or they just can’t be bothered when there is an abundance of easier work that they can do. American suppliers have assumed a very defeatist attitude and have given up trying to compete with Asian countries for mass production work in favor of prototype development and customized small-scale work where they can charge an arm and a leg. The irony is that, when it comes to things that require little labor but a lot of machine time (like my spouts and retainers), the Asians actually don’t really have an edge.

Finding someone to machine the retainers from stainless steel has been the biggest challenge. Many machine shops thought they had the expertise and equipment to make them, but then found out they couldn’t when they tried to make samples. But even finding someone to mold them from plastics has been difficult. Out of the RFQs sent to almost 600 molding specialists, I only received one quote.

As it stands, I now finally have firm commitments with two seemingly competent suppliers: one to machine the retainers from stainless steels and the other to have them molded from plastics (in case the machine shop fails again). But, assuming all goes well, it will still probably be 8 weeks before I see any product. Everything else, like my other inventory of spouts and accessories and the website design, is already in place. So I am now just waiting.

I therefore ask that you bear with me a little while longer. You won’t be sorry that you did. The novel products that tetherproducts.com will be offering will be very affordable and sophisticated and not likely to be things that you can easily or more cheaply make yourself. And I think you will be very impressed by the professionalism of the site and the entertainment value of the photo albums that you'll find thereon. I have put a great deal of time and money into developing this site and it is not going to be one of those amateurish “here today – gone tomorrow” businesses.

TetherSpout
Tetherproducts.com (coming in about 8 weeks)

[sklights]

This is exactly what I have been looking for....Mainly to give the look of a PA w/o the piercing and I thought I could do it with a plug, but seemed the screw in would be the only one to hold a ring w/o falling out. Bravo and good luck with manufacturing, I know the frustration that part is.

[fredie101]

I don't know about anyone else but Ill be here watching and waiting for you opening shop!

[muutenvaan]

I think that your toy is overly complicated and hard to produce.

How about something like this:



Insert side by side then turn one 180 degree and lock in place with pin.

And making these would be easy even at home.
Cut steel rods. Drill hole through at one end. Round the edges and bend few times.
Depending on how much you bend them you get different sizes from same materials.
Package with pin or piercing ring that fits drilled hole and you have product.

[kuddlkat]

I think his main intention is distribution of force over a larger area so it would be more comfortable.

Love your solution though. Probably doesn't even need the 180° turn, just bend them the same, then lay them together staggered so the curves line up, but when one is moved to be at the same depth, the phases are opposite.

I did this with Rosebud sounds. Stuck one in first, then the other, then moved them so they'd be at the same depth. Very well anchored.

[TetherSpout]

Muutenvaan,
It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. If your objective is to distent your urethra to a greater degree than you could by inserting a single sound and if you don't mind that the distension would not be uniform over the whole length, then your idea might work. Variations of your idea, i.e. 2-part probes whose relative orientation is changed after they are inserted can also be used for other things like creating an inextricable anchor inside the fossa navicularis. I've made numerous such devices and I mention them in my albums. But they don't have the comfort, convenience and versatility of my TetherSpouts and I know they are not any easier to make.

I wanted something small and unobtrusive that could be comfortably inserted without necessarily requiring any distension of the urethral orifice and could then be used for a large variety of different purposes, such as for plugging your penis, attaching rings, tethers or hoses, keeping other objects from coming back out, applying strong tension, use as an e-stim electrode, etc., all with unparalleled comfort and absolute assurance of inextricability. I think you completely missed the point of my TetherSpouts and TetherPlugs. Take another look at my first album. The configuration you describe can't do any of the things that my TetherSpouts can.

[sungu1]

Where are the other albums you are talking about in your album1. In fact you are talking of albums 10 and 11 I dont even see the album2. Or am I missing it.

What did you use to make the spout you have shown in the album1. I would love to order these when you finally get to produce them.

[bentslong]

Page 1, first post, open zip file.

[sungu1]

I have done that several times looked over and over. Can you point me to the specific pic of your album where you mentione about the this.

[sungu1]

Hi I just went through the entire album and dont find the answers to what I asked you.

What about your website
What of other albums yo are talking about
What did you use to make your spout shown in the first few pictures

I would really love to get into this - let me know

Thakns

[soundsgreat87]

He mentioned that subsequent albums would be available on his site but it's still in progress.

[TetherSpout]

sungu1,

As soundsgreat87 said (thank you), my other albums won't be available until I get my website up and running, which could still take some time because the supplier who is supposed to be making the retainers from stainless steel and who I paid a $10,000 deposit to, hasn't even sent me acceptable samples yet and is already a week overdue. I may have to sue him in court. Thankfully, I have an iron-clad agreement with a liquidated damages clause that makes him (and not just his company) personally responsible. Finding suppliers that are ethical and competent is seemingly next to impossible. As backup, I also have other suppliers that are working on making my retainers out of plastics, but they seem no further ahead. I've spent more than a year already, just trying to line up manufacturers and build inventory. I have everything else now, just not any retainers.

I can't tell you what I used to make the brass prototype spouts. They were just surplus brass fittings (origin unknown) that I turned down on my little hobby lathe. The stainless steel prototype retainer, I cut from an old piece of cutlery (flatware) and shaped it with a rotary tool.

TetherSpout
tetherproducts.com (coming who knows when)

[Oregazmick]

... the supplier who is supposed to be making the retainers from stainless steel and who I paid a $10,000 deposit to ...

Your committment to your product seems to be very considerable. In spite of your current problems I hope everything turns out well in the end.

[sungu1]

Indeed your committment is remarkeable. You sa everything else is ready. Do you have the spouts available. What are they made of, size and ofcourse the price. I would like to start trying them out while waiting for your retaineres. Hope you will sell the spouts