you know how me and the team at eFIXX love products made by electricians
for electricians something we like to call Innovation Corner
and behind me busily working away we have Adrian of AJ Electrical Services
the inventor of The Brocket so we're going to go in now and see his product
and see how it can save electrician's time and you know we like that on eFIXX
hello Adrian there he is so adrian it's an absolute pleasure to meet you at last
thanks for coming on Gary the inventor of The Brocket but of course, there had
to be a problem that you solved so before we get to your solution can
you show us what the problem is the electrician's facing so we do a lot
of them twin compartment trunking or any trunking really and with the amount of
bushes and the angles that the bushes are installed at the existing tools
that we find they just don't get into the areas that we
that we need okay it's obviously not gonna work so uh you can swap to an
old ratchet and a 21mm socket for for 20 mil bushes can you try that one point
as you can see it's just too cumbersome the physical size of it is too big and
also the physical diameter of the socket you're never going to get it get it onto
tight spaces basically okay so you found that problem and you're the sort
of person that goes away and you think i can solve that problem now looking
around what you called your workshop which most people would call you know
space-age technology we've got machines CNC machines all around us you went home
and worked out a solution to the problem and therefore you invented the bracket
exactly yeah so we thought that utilizing your existing quarter
inch drive ratchets would be a fantastic idea so we come up with um the brocket
a little low profile socket that fits perfectly onto your existing
quarter inch drive tool set and goes straight on to do up your bushes that
is amazing that is and it's beautifully designed I would suggest as well you do
mean stainless steel as well as we've got an aluminium that's been anodised
for aesthetic purposes and also gives the um the aluminium a little bit of a
protective coating makes it a little bit harder and we've got the premium version
made out of stainless steel for everyday use really the aluminium ones I would
suggest you know maybe once or twice a week and the premium ones for everyday
use and they come in two sizes just tell us those sizes we know what they are the
20 mm and the 25 mm for your standard bushes so these here so you're going to
show me a few more demonstrations you want to change that over and just show
me a couple of the other ones yeah so we can put an extension bar yeah onto which
is in your standard socket set yeah and then we can get a we'll go for a red
anodized aluminium one okay that clips on there yep and it goes straight on
and that's right tight up in there gary you can see you'd never get
anything else so we'll just pop that on there no that's that's perfect
it means we haven't gone with the grips we haven't messing around with several
other tools to do the one job we've got the one piece to keep the bracket
in order to tighten up our 20 and 25 mm bushes making it a simple solution
but you made these yourself yeah made them designed and made and patented
all myself so is that something that we can have a look at next yeah yeah
we can show you in the machine adrian you've clearly demonstrated there for
us what a fantastic product the brocket is but how do we get hands on a set
get yourself onto the website www.thebushsocket.com
all the information is available on there where you can have a look at the
standard set in anodized aluminium or the premium set the 316 stainless steel
we're going to show you a little peek inside this machine here on some of the
processes that adrian uses in order to make this so Adrian this is completely
out of my comfort zone can you just talk me through this part of the process
so yeah at the moment we're going from a blank that's done in the lathe
to doing the backs that are machined on this jig that i've made
and then the next process is to flip them over and machine the uh the fronts
ready for the bush to go in are you doing both sides at the same time yeah
we're going to do an 18 20 mm and 14 25s at the moment thanks for showing us
a small insight behind the manufacturing the process that you do all yourself Adrian
but what is the goal for the Brocket the goal really is just to get one of these
in every electrician's toolbox to get them out of a pinch when they need it
and we love products at efix that save electricians time and we love products
made by electricians for electricians that we put in innovation corner so
again if you've got any products out there that are made by electricians
for electricians drop us a line on the usual social media platforms
and maybe we'll come out and visit you but for today thank you very much Gary