The Wand Company TOS Tricorder is coming!


JiminSTLouis said:
Andrew Stockdale (design engineer) and Richard Blakesley (Chris B’s business partner) are at the show. I’m not sure if they have a booth though. This is what Andrew looks like.

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Thanks…. I know what he looks like….I met them last year! My Avatar is what I looked like ;)

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Leinads said:
If you do see them and have a chance to say a quick word, please let them know how pleased we are here at the RPF with our tricorders, and with everything they’ve done

(then… hit them with your honey-do list!!!) :p
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And boy oh boy is it a dead tric scroll too… :)

But I ran into an associate of their’s from last year….she told me that they are around, but there’s no Wand setup this year…perhaps in the future.

She did mention that they were also having meetings but didn’t elaborate. She says they like to use instagram.

She also mentioned that she would tell Andrew when she sees him, that a person who bought 2 Tricorder’s stopped by to say hey..

That’s it….and you can bet your bottom dollars (hundreds spent on problematic trics) that I’m not going to spend time searching for them. If I see em I see em, if not then not.


The woman looking at her device knows the Wand team……she helped last year hosting the Wand pop-up.

Me sitting in the Captain’s chair with some Tribbles
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For the sake of anonymity, I PS’d a face mask ;)
 
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Trooper_trent said:
Someone (maybe you?) posted this on the facebook group yesterday or the day before.
I noticed mine won't fall all the way perpendicular to the housing but I can easily nudge it to 90 degrees so it's not like it's going to break. I honestly wouldn't have even thought about it unless it was brought up. It hasn't bothered me and I didn't consider it a flaw.
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Mine opens to the point about where yours does before you push it down. If I push mine down from that point, there's tension and it springs way back up. I estimated with my phone's level that it's about 20 degrees. It's enough to block the middle section when I have it on display.
 
Technoboots said:
I've managed to get my door holding securely at 90 degrees. I remembered it held better before I sanded the plastic lightly near the pivot to remove some flash. The flash seemed to act as a bit of friction which held it in place.
I decided to try and use a bit of black super glue to build it up slightly so as to act as a grip. It worked and now the door hold in place when open.
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I'm glad this worked out for you. Assumably these were impacting the pin itself and preventing it from dropping the full 90 degrees?
 
Technoboots said:
I've managed to get my door holding securely at 90 degrees. I remembered it held better before I sanded the plastic lightly near the pivot to remove some flash. The flash seemed to act as a bit of friction which held it in place.
I decided to try and use a bit of black super glue to build it up slightly so as to act as a grip. It worked and now the door hold in place when open.
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Any ideas the size of these pins/rods? Not so much the length as the thickness
 
FANATICO said:
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I can only imagine the amount of people who are not on forums, chats, social media….and have received Tricorder’s with problems……I can imagine them saying out loud or thinking…. like WTF is this $H@&! ?

The TWC Tricorder product was not ready for Prime Time ….imo.
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How will people know what to complain about, without the Internet?!
 
Simonized said:
Any ideas the size of these pins/rods? Not so much the length as the thickness
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I used a set of digital calipers on the rod for the door and got a measurement of 1.50mm.
From what I can tell the section within the door is held in place by friction and doesn't rotate. The actual rotation is done where the aluminium frame and rod meet. If you wanted to try and make it so that the door holds in place no matter what angle you put it at, rather than replace the rod, you could crimp one end of the rod slightly. This would cause it to be much stiffer. I'm not trying it myself though as I'm happy with the result I got.
 
Ronldheld said:
Let us know anything said at SDCC from TWC.
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Like I mentioned…but to put it simply…I’m not going out of my way to hunt these guys down….I got fun stuff to do.

They don’t have a physical TWC setup at comic-con.

I want an enjoyable comic-con experience…not one with angst and frustration, that’s Charlotte’s domain ;) …she’s customer support.
 
FANATICO said:
Like I mentioned…but to put it simply…I’m not going out of my way to hunt these guys down….I got fun stuff to do.

They don’t have a physical TWC setup at comic-con.

I want an enjoyable comic-con experience…not one with angst and frustration, that’s Charlotte’s domain ;) …she’s customer support.
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Imagine trying to find someone in the sea of people at SDCC?
 
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