Some of you might have know'n I was installing a Power Flag from the "How would you drill this hole" thread. But for thoes of you who didnt.
Ill start by saying Patrick Cone, the inventor, is a real cool guy. I went down to his shop in San Jose Ca, to check out the new power flag.
My friend has one of the orignal Power Flag's and I had used it and knew what they were all about. He has had it for some time, I had heard threw the grape vine they had come down in price and there was some new changes I was intrested in what they had done, So Patrick invited me down to come check it out. Hot Buddy Products makes the soap buddy (soap holder) and the Tower Sock (tower cover) The sunglass buddy (sunglass holder) and the Power Flag. He starts off by showing me around. Its a small well put together place where everything has its spot, he makes most everything in house so theres no room to have mess. Thers a cool machine that is used to fill like 15 soap buddys at once fully automatic that gets fed from a 55 gallon drum of tropical soap. Theres a huge table for cutting fabric and neoprean and a industrial sewing machine for sewing the tower socks and Sunglass buddy's together. Last but not least over against the wall is the power flag station, Hanging like guns on display mirrior polished and black powder coated aluminum power flags adorn the wall. Below is the test bench where each power flag is built in a velvet lined holder. there is also a power supply and a amp quick disconect connector that plugs into the power flag, Amd a up and down switch ready to test each hand built flag.
This is where my factory tour gets interesting. he pulls out a padded rifle case and in it is a for display only, power flag its like a working cutaway model, Its the same as a real power flag but its made with a clear plastic tube instead of a aluminum tube. He plugs it in starts running it up and down up and down , It was so cool seeing how it worked I was sold. Its very complex and exact. Its very detailed and designed to opperate over and over. Totaly over built, and thats why I love it and its my new faverote toy. The whole unit sells for $750 out the door. That comes with Power flag, Computer controler, Adjustable wake designs bracket and all the mounting hardwear. I know it sounds like alot of money but if you see it in real life you would understand, I know what it takes to make somthing like this, and if I could make somthing like this it would be way more than $750 so to me $750 is a deal. To each his own.
you can go here and see all the photo's
http://svtsupercharged.com/gallery/album14?page=1 when you click on the photos they enlarge there is 2 pages of photo's
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