Lake Country Kompressor

Kompressors? Hexagons? Oh lord, what have we started....











RDAVEX7 said:
They must make them in the basement
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Prototypes are made in the garage, the mass production is done in our factories like everyone else. ;)







The real question is, which one of the field testers gave the as-yet-unnamed trial pads from last year to LakeCountry. :bat



And will LCM send us a royalty check? I'm guessing not. :chuckle:





Edit: I just doubled the amount of smileys in this thread. Awesome.
 
AmericanBuffing said:
Kompressors? Hexagons? Oh lord, what have we started....















Prototypes are made in the garage, the mass production is done in our factories like everyone else. ;)







The real question is, which one of the field testers gave the as-yet-unnamed trial pads from last year to LakeCountry. :bat



And will LCM send us a royalty check? I'm guessing not. :chuckle:





Edit: I just doubled the amount of smileys in this thread. Awesome.
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Care to explain.......
 
AmericanBuffing said:
Kompressors? Hexagons? Oh lord, what have we started....



Prototypes are made in the garage, the mass production is done in our factories like everyone else. ;)





The real question is, which one of the field testers gave the as-yet-unnamed trial pads from last year to LakeCountry. :bat



And will LCM send us a royalty check? I'm guessing not. :chuckle:





Edit: I just doubled the amount of smileys in this thread. Awesome.
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So does this mean that American Buffing designed the "Kompressor" pads, and LC stole the concept from you guys, then beat you to market???



Edit: David, you beat me by one minute.
 
The AB Cross Cut pads seem like a totally different technology than the LC Kompressor pads. If anything the AB resemble the Meg's Solo Diamond pads. Too bad Eric from LC isn't a member here anymore to explain...
 
AmericanBuffing said:
Kompressors? Hexagons? Oh lord, what have we started....















Prototypes are made in the garage, the mass production is done in our factories like everyone else. ;)







The real question is, which one of the field testers gave the as-yet-unnamed trial pads from last year to LakeCountry. :bat



And will LCM send us a royalty check? I'm guessing not. :chuckle:





Edit: I just doubled the amount of smileys in this thread. Awesome.
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Kindof irresponsible to suggest this without evidence.
 
David Fermani said:
The AB Cross Cut pads seem like a totally different technology than the LC Kompressor pads. If anything the AB resemble the Meg's Solo Diamond pads. Too bad Eric from LC isn't a member here anymore to explain...
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Well, that's my assumption that the CrossCut are the pads in question, but regardless, I don't see how the LC guy would be in any more of a position than me to explain the AB guy's post...
 
Not trying to come off as a smart as$, but are you in the pad business? I could be wrong, but isn't the AB guy kinda insinuating that LC stole thier concept? Unless you work for/with LC, how can anyone other than LC substantiate this claim?
 
Holy cow. Sorry guys, I'm not trying to start anything here. I just happened upon this on thread via google when someone asked me about the Kompressor pads.



A mod can feel free to delete the whole thing if they wish.



My comments were intended to be rather light-hearted.





Edit: To answer your question: No, I'm not insinuating they stole it from us. There are buffing pads in our all our offices (all mfg's) that date back to the 80's with razor-blade cuts in them, I'm sure.



I've learned my lesson. I'll leave the Autopia posting to the professionals. Take care!
 
I think these could be great pads but they are too big. I like to use pads 6" and under so the 7" dont work well for me.
 
I try not to patronize companies that have shady business practices, so if there is any proof/truth to Company A stealing Company B's product and using it as their own, I would definitely raise a stink about it, and avoid their products.
 
Me too Supe, but I'll refrain from passing judgement until I know both sides. Too bad Mike (ABC) is so bashful about elaborating on something he chose to bring up. :hide:
 
I think you guys are going a little overboard. Do you refuse to patronize Pepsi because they "copied" Coke and came out with a cola? Do you similarly shun Wendy's and BurgerKing because they "copied" McDonald's idea for fast-food burgers?



It seems like the AB guy was just joking/venting a bit about some product they may have been testing last year...he went on to say that all the pad mfrs. have been fooling around with this since the 80's, he didn't say AB "invented" it.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I think you guys are going a little overboard. Do you refuse to patronize Pepsi because they "copied" Coke and came out with a cola? Do you similarly shun Wendy's and BurgerKing because they "copied" McDonald's idea for fast-food burgers?

It seems like the AB guy was just joking/venting a bit about some product they may have been testing last year...he went on to say that all the pad mfrs. have been fooling around with this since the 80's, he didn't say AB "invented" it.
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Absolutely!! Doesn't everyone?? ;)



Kidding aside, if a company is actively trying to develop a product that's unique in it's field, and another company blatantly steals their idea, yeah, I'd avoid their products, for sure. Now if Company A buys a sample of Company B's product, and says, OK, we can improve on this.... then that's not a problem. I remember an econ professor saying "competition is good", and I think that's the difference: making a better version of a product already available is competition. Stealing the idea is just wrong.



But honestly.... who drinks Pepsi???
 
David Fermani said:
Looking back at some of his old posts, he also mentioned this about the CCS style too.
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Hey, who's to say AB didn't invent all that stuff? They obviously didn't patent it (or the patent ran out). It's all about marketing...most of the computer stuff we use today was invented at Xerox in Palo Alto (their research lab) in the early 70's, but they never marketed it right. Look it up, they invented the fax machine, mouse, Ethernet, but you never hear them associated with that stuff because it didn't come into common use until decades later, partly because they didn't know how to sell those ideas.
 
SuperBee364 said:
...if a company is actively trying to develop a product that's unique in it's field, and another company blatantly steals their idea, yeah, I'd avoid their products, for sure.
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Being that I see this from the manufacturer's side...there isn't really a whole lot that's "unique" in any field. If you're talking about Bell Labs or IBM or Intel (um...I guess you can forget about those first two now) that have billion-dollar research budgets, then maybe. But cutting foam into circles and gluing velcro on the back isn't exactly the pinnacle of basic research...although that CCS thing was a little cool...however, are we sure it wasn't the foam mfr. that came up with that, rather than the pad mfr?
 
David Fermani said:
Aren't those pockets burned into the pad?
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Given that they run off the edge of the pad, I would say they are thermally formed into the foam sheet before they are cut into pads, and what better place to do that than the foam mfr?
 
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