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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51N3BV2mT1M
Following up the thread here:
https://www.adisc.org/forum/showthread.php/106963
Previously I had asked for help in finding a Special Needs Merry Muscles, since the manufacturer had discontinued them. One employee told me that the heavy-duty hardwarey bits on the "MEAS" where necessary to hold larger users, but a second employee told me the product had been discontinued because people were buying them for older children who did not have special needs. The first excuse (weight) was basically telling me that a product they used to make was actually impossible. The second excuse just seemed stupid - the response to a larger-than-expected additional market for your product should be "Hurray! More money!" as opposed to becoming so offended that you discontinue the product altogether!
Anyhow, in my previous thread, I was looking for a "Special Needs" model that I could disassemble and scale.
I got my hands on one, and have spent a couple months tweaking. A few trips to JoAnn Fabric, Home Depot, and a bicycle shop has yielded two very nice working prototypes.
The original "Special Needs" model is smaller than I had pictured. At 120 lbs I can BARELY force myself into it - it would comfortably fit up to maybe an 80lb kid. This is the model that "Paige" told me could not exist, because the additional heavy-duty hardware was necessary to hold a larger/older child.
SO MUCH FOR THAT. My clone is very similar in design/material/construction and has adequately held up to 160 lbs.
Here's a video I got today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51N3BV2mT1M
Following up the thread here:
https://www.adisc.org/forum/showthread.php/106963
Previously I had asked for help in finding a Special Needs Merry Muscles, since the manufacturer had discontinued them. One employee told me that the heavy-duty hardwarey bits on the "MEAS" where necessary to hold larger users, but a second employee told me the product had been discontinued because people were buying them for older children who did not have special needs. The first excuse (weight) was basically telling me that a product they used to make was actually impossible. The second excuse just seemed stupid - the response to a larger-than-expected additional market for your product should be "Hurray! More money!" as opposed to becoming so offended that you discontinue the product altogether!
Anyhow, in my previous thread, I was looking for a "Special Needs" model that I could disassemble and scale.
I got my hands on one, and have spent a couple months tweaking. A few trips to JoAnn Fabric, Home Depot, and a bicycle shop has yielded two very nice working prototypes.
The original "Special Needs" model is smaller than I had pictured. At 120 lbs I can BARELY force myself into it - it would comfortably fit up to maybe an 80lb kid. This is the model that "Paige" told me could not exist, because the additional heavy-duty hardware was necessary to hold a larger/older child.
SO MUCH FOR THAT. My clone is very similar in design/material/construction and has adequately held up to 160 lbs.
Here's a video I got today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51N3BV2mT1M