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To all the haters out there giving this guy crap….I have been in his shoes before. I am a mechanical engineer and I can almost guarantee this guy is an ice fisherman and a part of his project is to utilize online threads. In my college projects, my professors would encourage or require me to reach out to the general public for ideas/opinions. He is using this forum as a focus group which is a great idea.With that said, I really like the follow ideas:• Body Improvements o Lightweight o High Temp Plastic o Built in heating wires, similar to heating socks for hunting o Collapsible for storage Either sliding or folding o Expandable shaft for deeper ice Protects line from hitting edge of hole, causing drag• Flag Improvements o Expandable flag for deep snow o Built in light with tilt switch and/or bells (gives you 3 options) o Reflective flag materialGood luck on your project! PM me if you want to discuss anything else. I have a bad habit of inventing things (usually hunting or fishing related), making protypes that work, but then not following through on production/selling.
She not he....
What ever happened to doing research..buy a bunch of traps and spend time analyzing them.. maybe then you'll figure out what many of us already know and have done to improve them.. good luck in your studies.
That would require getting out of the chair once you've ordered the tipups online and had them delivered to your door. Instead he should set up a Zoom meeting with some fishing tackle reps who could give him their spiels and then he could tinker with the designs virtually of course. Once he has solved all the issues he can whip up a prototype on a 3d printer and present it to the professor. No sense wasting time by actually ice fishing at any point.
yeah you kids get off my lawn!! Have you ever looked on this site for ideas??? Why don't you just solve it yourself?Man so many hateful people on these posts. Feel bad for you man.
The fishing rod style tip ups like finicky foolers and i-fish pro are where its at. Come up with something new and innovative in that avenue. Traditional tipups are hard to improve on.
built in hook treble hook holder
How miserable do you have to be to post this? This is literally an important type of research. Reaching out to users to get more feedback. This is away to have access to more information and experience than one person can gather by themselves. I feel bad for you.
Paul, Most made in this century do sit level. 😃
None of the cross stick ones like in Paul's picture do sit flat or at least I haven't seen any that do.
i need YOUR input please! im currently a design student looking at solutions for improving the current tip-ups for ice fishing on the market. do you have any problems you face with current tip-ups and anything you would want to see in a design of a new one? i appreciate your feedback and input
thanks for all the feedback so far everyone! this is just a quick design project for school -- so your user feedback has been really important and helpful, especially for me to understand problems other people have with the product. i appreciate all the help so far and i'll be sure to post some final 3D renders once the project is complete in the next couple weeks!