What number of instances have you ever heard of some legendary concept that first got here to life on a bar serviette? Rumor has it Discovery Channel’s Shark Week was first scribbled out on a cocktail sq., as was the previous factors system for NASCAR. Porsche routinely retells its story of how Max Hoffman – whose Hoffman Motor Firm created the post-WWII European automobile market by importing manufacturers like Volkswagen, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW – spelled out the entire parts of the enduring Porsche crest, which Ferdinand Porsche, Jr. sketched out earlier than him on a serviette.
Add yet one more nice product thought to that record of legends. Within the late ‘90s, Eastwood product improvement supervisor Mark Robidoux was having drinks with a coworker after hours when the dialogue turned to creating powder coating expertise extra accessible to DIYer. He remembered a flocking software he’d utilized in a highschool store class and sketched the preliminary idea for a “fluidizing chamber” to spray powder onto an element. That aspect can be the important thing to the Scorching Coast powder coating system, which Eastwood launched in 1998, establishing the DIY powder coating market.
Within the video under, Mark retells the unique story himself, and explains how that preliminary bar serviette sketch become the primary PCS-150, then developed into the dual-voltage PCS-250 and later the high-powered PCS-1000, which has allowed numerous folks to show their energy coating passion right into a enterprise.
