hi everyone i'm looking for a Scrappy it was used on the Gerber 4B's and the Sprints so that you could use up your scrap vinyls if anyone has one they want to sell let me know or if you know where i can get one
Thank You
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Wish I know more about this thing too! From a Proud 4Ber with tons of scraps. Let's make a Vynull quilt! Love....Jill
Posted by Arthur Vanson (Member # 2855) on :
I'm sure there are all sorts of reasons why one shouldn't but, when I had a Gerber plotter I would occasionally strip the off-cut vinyl from it's carrier paper and restick it to a full width sprocketed piece of scrap carrier paper. I also tried sticking the scrap to a new piece of vinyl/carrier, with masking, tape but couldn't completely eliminate 'creep'. Mean or Green? Posted by Fred Weiss (Member # 3662) on :
The Scrappy™ Friction Feed Adapter was my invention and was last manufactured in the early 1990's.
You can get excellent cut results on GSP sprocket fed plotters from scraps by taping them down to a polyester liner such as one gets with Rubylith, Amberlith etc. Just strip off the film from the carrier and tape your scraps on it with masking tape on all four edges. Be sure to leave gaps for air to escape.
Posted by gilbert cunningham (Member # 5171) on :
Fred can your company not make these again, was it a good selling item?
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
I bought Fred's original model at a trade show in the '80s. He upgraded me later to a refined design. It's remains attached to that IV-A and still gets used periodically. I've done a few modifications to the hold down and cutting head of the IV-A myself.
Posted by Greg Gulliford (Member # 170) on :
Buy a few yards of the Gerber Lexan (for the Edge) and then tape your vinyl to that to cut. I have cut literally 100's of yards of vinyl on a S750 with a homemade version of this. You most like ly will have to reduce your cutting force by a small amount.
Posted by Fred Weiss (Member # 3662) on :
quote:Originally posted by gilbert cunningham: Fred can your company not make these again, was it a good selling item?
It sold very well until a misinformation, threats and dirty tricks campaign knocked out most of our resellers. Most buyers were overseas since they were paying about $3 a foot for HP punched using the patented hole pattern. We sold more Scrappys in New Zealand than we sold in California, New York, Texas and Florida combined.
In Europe, Fasson (now Avery and, at the time the major Gerber distributor to most of Europe) tracked purchasing and discovered a 20% drop in vinyl purchasing after a Scrappy was installed. The result was a condemnation of the product by Gerber Scientific.
At this point it isn't practical to manufacture it. There would never be enough units sold to even recover the minimum manufacturing run cost.
Marketing any new concept is difficult at best. The last thing I developed was a measuring device to determine how much foil remained in a Gerber Edge cartridge. Built a prototype, perfected it and then talked to a few dozen Edge owners and some Edge dealers. The overwhelming consensus was that there was no need to know this information. No perceived problem. These days all the foil makers provide some means to determine this information.
The product never went into production but I use the prototype everyday so I don't ruin my own prints.
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