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Jul 29, 2005 19:26:54 GMT
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Good news for anyone who was looking to get a Safety Devices rollcage or any other SD bit. You know how they recently went into liquidation? Well they've started operating again, there was a mention of it in Practical Performance Car this month, and their website's in the middle of being updated. www.safetydevices.comWhich is quite handy actually, because I was planning on getting a cage from them a while back before they went under, so I might ask them if they'd do me a six point cage for the Imp. It's a good thing for retro enthusiasts actually, because they do a lot of retro-friendly safety gear, a lot of the cages they do are made to fit classics, and their extinguisher systems etc can be fitted to classics by them too as far as I know, although their plumbed in stuff's more than a little out of my price range at the moment, I'll stick with a couple of handhelds strapped into the car for emergenices!
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slater
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Jul 29, 2005 19:39:49 GMT
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Yeh i herd they are up and running again as "safey devices international" basicly they have moved the menufacturing side out of the UK to cut costs. Tbh I'm not surprised they went bust, the price of CDS tube has doubled in the last year!
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Jul 29, 2005 19:42:55 GMT
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they'll probably make a mint now thanks to all the people who went "awwww, i was gonna buy one of them" rushing in to get it quick.... sad for UK manufacturing but they're one of the best cage makers so good luck to them.
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GJM
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Jul 29, 2005 19:43:09 GMT
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Seen that Imp roll cage on ebay Rev?
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Jul 29, 2005 19:45:02 GMT
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aint they being made in Poland now ? where's the steel coming from ?
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Jul 29, 2005 20:11:50 GMT
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Seen that Imp roll cage on ebay Rev? I did see that one, but it involves travelling down to get it seeing as the guy doesn't want to post it, and I don't really have much free time at the moment that I could go down and get it. Thanks for giving me the link on that other thread a few days ago though, I've been thinking about it but as I said it's a little awkward for me to go down and pick it up. Besides that, I don't know how effective that cage'll be, it's a secondhand aluminium one after all, it's cheap but maybe there's a reason for that, i.e. it's also f*cked. Going by SDs reputation their cages are pretty strong and they're a very good design, so I'd imagine they'd make a better contribution to the handling and strength of the shell. Admittedly I'm still bloody skint, but it'll be worth the money once I can afford it!
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MantaA16V
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Safty Devices was only 15mins down the road from me and been most helpful and handy in the past, its a shame to see them go, on the other hand, i am now been offered a chance to snap up some of there equipment for my own fledgling car restoration/modifying company.
I was made redundant last year from an agricultural manufacturing company. My ex-company now send the machines to Hungary and China in a "flat pack" kit form, i.e they get the steel etc. supplied. The parts are then folded/formed, welded and assembled there, then shipped all the way back here and then sold as a British product. They now make more money by doing this despite the shipping costs both ways.
Labour costs in these sort of countries is so low, for example 80p an hour for a top notch welder in Hungary, British manufacturing doesn,t stand a chance.
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