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YOUR RESEARCHNew Patent Issued: Single Row Pro IMS Retrofit & Faultless Tool
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Use still today🤘
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It looks like Frankenstein, but it's all I use still today🤘
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Everybody knows you can replace the IMSB with a wheel bearing puller and reinstall with a section of 2.5" PVC pipe from Home Depot.
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Run back" :-)
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Feels good to have this one behind me, now I can hand it off to the "Running Back" :-)
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Use of patents i see in my trade (software)
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With all the bogus use of patents I see in my trade (software), it's good to see them being used as they were intended for a change.
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Patent #3 was issued just a few days ago. This one didn't take quite as long as my first two IMS Patents.
This one covers (but is not limited to) the technology the Single Row Pro is based upon, (fitting a dual row bearing into the space of a single row OE bearing)as well as the Faultless Tool, and method of installation.
Figured I'd share this with y'all 🤘
Thanks, Guys... Feels good to have this one behind me, now I can hand it off to the "Running Back" :-)
I've learned a lot over the past decade of these Patent processes. It paved the way for a few more non- automotive based invention concepts which are in process at the present.
As a person who has installed the IMS Solution (with the attendant tools - IMS pro install kit & supplemental kit) I can say thank you and congrats on a job well done! It really is an elegant "solution" for a job that Porsche originally said couldn't be done...
I call BS! Everybody knows you can replace the IMSB with a wheel bearing puller and reinstall with a section of 2.5" PVC pipe from Home Depot. All this fancy pants stuff.....
LOL...very very impressed Jake. Good job! Congratulations and Oooorah! Good man you are....
The prototype for this Patented Faultless Tool was originally made from scrap material laying next to my milling machine, coupled to a 914 AC compressor next nut, and 12.00 worth of stuff from the local hardware store.
It looks like Frankenstein, but it's all I use still today🤘
I lived the majority of my life having to make something, out of nothing, and I learned how to to be good at it. Today I tend to find myself continuing to do the same.
The vulnerability in this situation is there seems to be only one expert inventing Patent-worthy fixes to save the M96 from itself.
Who else has a significant Patent for any part to help us keep these engines running ?
Porsche just abandoned this issue.
I hope Porsche at least send Jake a fruit cake at Christmas?
For all the advice he has given here, maybe we should too ?
Until December, I'll just say "Thank you Jake".
Congrats. Thanks for your great products.
I would not be purchasing my, new to me, 2001 996 C4 without the new bearing. Your effort and skill has made ownership of the 996 a reasonable risk for me. I am sure many others are grateful for your efforts.
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