What the Orbital can do

At the end of April we visited a meeting of the Olympic Peninsula Entrepreneur Network (OPEN) in Port Angeles, Washington. It's not Canada, but you can see it from there. We wanted to find out about ways to get more word out about the Grip-All Jaws System. The folks there were really impressed with both the Tilt-Top Portable and the Orbital Holding System.

First of all they were a great group of like minded, intelligent people who had some really neat ideas on the whole game of invention. There were software and hardware engineers, artists, technical people, and one fellow who had made a good living from his inventions and now is in the business of helping others. They're a great group. Check out their website.

One of the fellows there was quite impressed with one demonstration that we show. We clamped something large and heavy, a tree root, as I recall, and it held just fine.The Orbital can hold anything that fits inside the 14" reach of the jaws and weighs about 25 pounds or less.

Here, gourd artist Cecile Garrison holds a large gourd in hers. But R.P. Myers then took the root out and clamped a light bulb in it tightly enough to keep it from moving and it didn't crush the light bulb. Finally, he did this one. This is the one that got their attention.

These are blown eggshells and he clamped them in the Orbital tightly enough that you could carve them with a rotary tool but it did not crush the egg. These eggs have been used for demonstrations from the beginning. 

So we just wanted to show everybody the versatility of the Grip-All Jaws Orbital holding system.