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2010-11-24 02:54:22 (8041 views) Done in Taiwan this time. You can see the difference. Finally they managed to use 0.5mm thickness PC without excuses, wrong hole positions, glue sticking out of the holes and all the defects we experienced. These overlays are finally completely flat.
The overlays have finally reached the quality of the other DL2000 parts.
2010-11-23 05:37:22 (7316 views) HARD WORK is what it's taking to make this product a reality!
Today we celebrate...
The DL2000 has officially passed all regulatory testing for the US and EU and now has the "CE" conformity mark!
2010-11-21 04:03:13 (7612 views) Good band located!
- non stretchable
- made of synthetic, thin material. Looks and feels cheap but dries quickly.
2010-11-20 10:30:25 (6903 views) One of the hardest things to build here in China.
It would be easy to use this kind of system
but then it would be very easy to take it off.
We can use something with holes to allow you to lock the band with one of those plastic locks commonly used for chastity devices. But the waistbands that already have holes are a bit odd.
So we're still trying to make our own holes. We've abandoned the idea of putting eyelets on these bands because they look terrible (the back of the eyelet gets deformed, sometimes the front too). We're now working with shirt buttonholes but here too it's mostly a manual job so the positioning, angle, etc. can't be controlled and the result is very poor. We went to the factory to do this together with the worker and managed to improve quality by 30% just by telling him "do it again" whenever he made a bad hole. But it's still not enough. He's saying they need a computerized sewing machine to do this job better, and they can rent it. So we got more material and on Monday they'll give us an appointment to test this new method.
As you can see it's all very difficult and error-prone, we wish there was an easier way to hold this waistband in place securely (at least a tamper evident method).
2010-11-19 07:27:03 (6800 views) 
2010-11-19 04:23:47 (6381 views) Another factory visit trying to get the waist/bodybands sorted out.
This is the best result we could get with the machines they've got. Eyelets are always squeezed so we abandoned the idea and resorted to trying to make shirt button holes. The problem now is that it's really hard to position the holes. Even with us on-site trying to fix things up the machines aren't precise enough and so the results aren't very professional.
Still, this is better than nothing - they may not be pretty but at least they do the job they're supposed to do. There are a number of holes which you can use to lock the band behind the back with one of those plastic locks, or other means.
Trying to find a factory with better machines to improve the quality a bit more.
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