This thing has kind of found a life of its own, so before we go any further I want to share some thoughts about what we’re doing here at HoseJoy.
I started making this system because I was frustrated and annoyed by the fact that most of my dust collection system didn’t fit together, and despite promises of “standard” connections, I had a couple boxes and drawers full of crap adapters that I’d bought that didn’t fit anything, but were too expensive to throw away.
I’m an engineer, so I decided to fix it. Just for my shop. I didn’t stop until I’d made adapters for all of my tools. All of them, big and small, and everything in between.
A few years later, my family and friends suggested that I should see if anyone else might want a system like this. So I decided to find out, and now my whole family works for HoseJoy. My wife, my three kids, even my mom who does the books.
I use my adapters every day, and a lot of them are the original prototypes even though I’ve made some of them more “cosmetically” appealing over the years. They never fail to please me, and that’s something I can’t say about many products I’ve purchased in the last thirty years. They just work, and they don’t get in the way.
I’m sharing some pictures of my shop in Portland so you can get an idea of how much more is coming. It takes a lot of time to make these ugly prototypes fit for sale, take good pictures, and write good descriptions, but they’re coming.
And we’re committed to making an adapter for every tool, not just the ones I use. If there’s a tool you want an adapter for, send us a note using the form here. We’ll eventually have thousands of adapters that fit perfectly, and nobody will ever have to wonder how to hook up a hose to a tool.
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All of our products will always and only be made in the USA by people who make enough to have a life and support a family. This is fundamental to us, and it is a bedrock promise.
And every part we make comes with a “limited” lifetime warranty. The limited part just applies to abuse: like if you run over it with your truck or cut it in half with your bandsaw. Other than abuse, we’ll send you a new one if our parts ever fail to function in the way they were intended to. I think you’d have to try pretty hard to break one of these.
We recently created some partnerships with retailers that we’re very excited about, because we know that once folks can feel these things with their hands their worries about “just more junk they bought on the internet” disappears. Increased demand (and filling it) means that we’ll have a short period of adjustment, but our pace of releasing new adapters will be back to normal soon.
All of us here are deeply grateful for your patronage and your feedback. We regard all of you as partners in making something that “just works”. And we want you to be actual partners — help us measure tool ports! There are so many, and none of them are “standard”.
Sorry for blowing out so much wind :-)Â I’m just very thankful for your support and wanted to give you all an update.
Thanks again,
Tim
