my final yr project

poplar · Post by **poplar** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:27 pm

Hi,

I am looking for some feedback from potential users (you lot!) for what was my final year project.

Kameleon - Paintless Stone Chip Repair System

A short video (15mb) can be downloaded which gives a general overview of it. http://www.coulldesign.co.uk/paul/kameleon.mov

It is a consumer kit for repairing stone chip damage to bumpers, bonnets and wings.It all works ok, but I need to re-design some components to make it work perfectly.

The innovation comes in the form of 'paint stickers' - there is no paint involved. To keep it understandable the sticker is a co-extrusion or laminate of UV protection enhanced film and thermosplastic resin, which has 6 shades of the OE colour thermally transferred, is high-tak backed and the die cut to form a 8mm sticker-tab-thing.

Basically, I just finished it of for my degree a few weeks back, but now I am developing something that can be realised. I have two companies helping my develop the technical side of it, and a sposnor assisting the branding. Unfortunately my hard drive decided to lose my presentation work (:evil:) all I have is my protoype and some pics.

I am looking for ANY feedback/comments, etc. I'm unbelievable busy tonight but I'll do my best to reply.

Thanks,

Paul

PS I mentioned a few weeks back about using a sectioned car in an exhibition. This is still on - I'm working on the sposnors livery at the mo, but want to use Rovertech too. (it'll most likely be a rover I Use). Can Bjorn/Lisa or someone give me permission to bung rovertech on it too?!

steve-o · Post by **steve-o** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 3:24 pm

Dont mean to take the wind out of your sails here pal, but didnt Turtle Wax develope the exact same thing about 6 years ago until it became a market flop and so developed the wax stick instead?

poplar · Post by **poplar** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 5:38 pm

There was something of the same nature around, and yes it was disaster because it was nothing more than a sticker. It stood proud of the surface and the colour match was aweful. As far as I'm aware they only made it solid colours, and paint technology has advanced a lot since then.

The Turtle Wax Stick is very good IMO...but isn't a permanent repair and again colour match is restricted to the normal blues, reds, greens, etc.

I carried out an 8K research document back in Oct which resulted in identifying a gap in the market for such a product. My contacts who are developing the technological/manufacturable side of things obviously wouldn't have gone ahead if the product had already been around.

This product takes things a lot further.

Thanks for the reply tho.

P