Here at Tormach we love sharing our customer...
stories, so here's professional BMXer...
...Billy Griggs, who also does product...
...development at Razor, the scooter company.
I think the main reason we chose the Tormach...
...was because it fit our budget, it fit our...
...space requirements and it seemed like a
really easy machine to get started out
on, since we had no previous CNC...
...experience..our operators here. We were..
..going to learn as we went.
So it's just seemed like a the kinder,
friendlier, you know it all our
requirements, kind of machine, so you know...
that was that was how we picked it.
So, Razor started out as a scooter..
..company in 2000 and most people...
remember the success of the razor razor
scooter from back then. What we've done..
...since then, it's been a long journey into..
getting into electrics. Um, electric ride ons,
fantasy type toys.
It's really grown as a company in the
you know fun for kids kinda kind of
market well beyond just the scooters.
What we use our Tormach the most for is..when we're..
prototyping concept ideas, we a lot of..
times need to have multiple parts. And..
back in the day, before we had the Tormach...
we had to, you know make them..
manually. And that took a lot of time. So..
now we're able to the knock out parts..
and make revisions and, and develop our
our products a little bit further than...
what we used to do, which as our products...
become more intricate and advanced,
that's been a really asset. So...
yeah, I came to Razor after seven years..
...spent in the bicycle industry and I got in..
the bike industry because i was a
retired professional BMX racer so having
a love of BMX bikes and racing them and
and you know doing it for a living when
I went into the bike industry my passion
at that point was it a desire to to be
able to develop and design bikes that I
knew i needed to ride a certain way so
at that point that drove me to learn all
the fabrication and design skills
necessary to do that. So when Razor
started deciding to move on to a more
diverse product line from just the kick
scooters that's where the opportunity
opened for me to come work here and
basically bring bring some of those
fabrication skills to an RD shop for
Razor USA, in the United States.
Well, we've had this machine since 2010 and we..
basically have have just repainted some
of the drip trays and that's really been
it we we haven't had any major
maintenance to it i mean this isn't a
machine that gets run ragged..
either. We take good care of it we run it
you know we run it conservatively and
stuff. So you know it's really suited our..
need and are our productivity level
perfectly. It's still a really good..
machine in great shape works perfect
We don't have any issues with it other..
...than we just repainted some stuff to..
..keep it looking fresh.
So one of the more popular recent..
products that we've done here at Razor,
is the Crazy Cart. A lot of people are..
familiar with that it's sort of a
drifting, simulator go-kart. It also can..
do a few things that a real drift cart..
can't do. It can do teacup spins and you..
know a lot of a lot of new things so
that's probably been our most successful
recent project that we've we've made a
lot of pieces and parts for on the
tarmac we you know it required a really
intricate steering limiter that we we
designed and built on the tarmac just
all the various different linkages 44
what's called the drift bar which is a
really critical element of that thing
success that cart was in development for
probably seven or eight years so we
really it was a project that wasn't a
front-burner project until all of a
sudden it was so it was a good thing
that we had you know had the ability to
to work on it for that many years ahead
and you know it's great that we had the
tormach elongated to help it that you
know when we had the opportunity to have
this machine here and and learn how to
how to do cnc it was a very very big day
for me to have a dream come true of a
skill that i wanted to have and you know
i'm so thankful that razor chose to to
bring cnc machining into are you know
facility here and that I was given the
opportunity to to learn how to program
the machine around the Machine and
that's I mean that's that's been a great
skill to have in in my toolbox those be
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