ATS blade, Grinder,

[Concrete guy]

Well u have to pay for quality if u think of the price of of d24000 or a 10m it's not unreasonable to pay for a quality blade I think montolit make the DNA that fits big wet saws

The issue we have though is we need to manufacture these blades in minimum production runs that generally run into the 1000's of units. That's fine at 115mm & 125mm for grinders as we sell as many as 30 - 50 a day.

At 250mm though if we're only selling 1 or 2 a week I'm reluctant to invest £30,000 into stock in one particular blade size that might take 10 years to sell.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

The issue we have though is we need to manufacture these blades in minimum production runs that generally run into the 1000's of units. That's fine at 115mm & 125mm for grinders as we sell as many as 30 - 50 a day.

At 250mm though if we're only selling 1 or 2 a week I'm reluctant to invest £30,000 into stock in one particular blade size that might take 10 years to sell.

Yeah That makes sense

 

[Kyle Knowles]

Maybe they could knock up some samples WINK WINK WINK and my wet saws would be so happy haha

 

[Concrete guy]

Maybe they could knock up some samples WINK WINK WINK and my wet saws would be so happy haha

We've tried that route before and the factories will do it for us. But we need to pay the mold cost for the new production run and pay for the new sized blank centres to be manufactured. So even a "test" costs circa US$5000, for say 500 blades.

This is the reason why the Montolits are a few hundred pounds, they just don't sell in enough volume to get an economy of scale.

When we visit the factories (in China) it's not uncommon for a production run to be in progress for a big brand, say Bosch or Dewalt. These runs are Millions of units and we have to squeeze our "tiny" orders in between the big branded stuff.

We've even been to one of the factories that produces Marcrist products, but once they found out we were UK based they wouldn't sell to us, which was reasonable.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

 

[Kyle Knowles]

Just found a rubi blade with the same pattern on the blade I wonder if there upto scratch

 

[Concrete guy]

It's worth a try.

We can buy off the shelf stuff like the RUBI blade above, but if we're unbranded (or ATS branded) it needs to be substantially cheaper to attract customers.

If a Montolit DNA is £150 and the ATS version comes in at £120, you're going to buy the DNA every time, it's branded and trusted.

Now if ours comes in at £60 that's a different story and a big saving.

Ultimately it comes down to how many we'd sell. We've been asked and researched a number of products that we've decided not to go ahead with due to concerns over sales volumes.

 

[Old Mod]

This design of blade is quite good but it does suffer the problem of being particularly fragile.
Snag it, and you'll probably tear a chunk out of it.
I know of a fixer on here who had snagged both my pro Gres and his own Rubi viper and torn chunks out of both.
And the Extol industries version of the same blade suffers the same problem.

 

[Concrete guy]

This design of blade is quite good but it does suffer the problem of being particularly fragile.
Snag it, and you'll probably tear a chunk out of it.
I know of a fixer on here who had snagged both my pro Gres and his own Rubi viper and torn chunks out of both.
And the Extol industries version of the same blade suffers the same problem.

That's interesting.

I can see that happening because these are really quite thin.

They are also prone to knocks.

 

[Old Mod]

That's interesting.

I can see that happening because these are really quite thin.

They are also prone to knocks.

Yeah if you drop your grinder, forget it, it's totalled.