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Creator Steve Pappas on May 10

That's great Karl!

Thanks for helping to make it a great day and starting off the weekend right :-)

Best,

Steve

Creator Steve Pappas on May 3

Alright Daver ! ! !

Love it, LOL!

:-)

Creator Steve Pappas on May 1

Hi Leo!

Thank you for making me happy too :-)

Best!

Creator Steve Pappas on May 1

Cool cool cool!

I love that you love it Brad :-)

Makes my day!

Creator Steve Pappas on April 30

Brad,

That is too cool ! ! !

See my response to your comment on Update # 31.

Look forward brainstorming on this with you!

Thank you and regards,

Steve :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on April 28

Hi Alexandre!

You're Backer # 406, which is towards the end of the line.

You're TacTiClips have not yet shipped.

Will let you know the day that they do!

We're waiting on TacTiClips to be finished for input into the final quality control control check and the fulfillment process.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Thank you for your patience, pledge and support.

Best,

Steve :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on April 26

Hey Daver!

Love it! Awesome :-)

Thank you!

Creator Steve Pappas on April 18

Hi Lorane!

Cool!

Another "Ti Head" in the making :-)

You made my day!

Thank you for your pledge and support.

Appreciate it!

Best,

Steve :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on April 14

Hey Brad!

Yes, can't wait to get them to you and everyone else!

Working fulfillment as we speak.

Thanks to all for your patience, pledges, and support.

Update later tonight!

Best,

Steve :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on April 10

Hey Brad!

I thought I replied to this???

Alright! Come on down!

Let me know if, when, and how long you'll be on the island of Oahu.

Will be sure to carve out some time get together to help you and the missus to enjoy your stay!

Best,

Steve :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on March 30

Thanks Brad! Appreciate it :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on March 2

You're welcome Brad!

Things are going well, while waiting on the delivery of the Titanium sheet stock, which is late!

Am sending update today regarding that to keep all informed.

Thanks for asking, just notice your email on the reaching the WTF 10K stretch goal.

Super! You're rockin'

Best,

Steve :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on February 28

Hey Brad!

Saw it, love it, the BG, and the WTF looks way cool!

Really nice sleek design.

You've packed a lot of wrench into a small space,

Sweet!

Creator Steve Pappas on February 17

Hi All!

Responding to Brad's comment about annealing Ti if experimenting goes awry:

According to research, annealing is a heat treating method to help make titanium resist fracturing while increasing its ductility, or ability to be stretched into thin wire. Titanium is difficult to heat treat because it's more susceptible to contamination from various sources at high temperature such as air, moisture, dust, and grease.

Annealing is not a way to put a TacTiClip back into shape, and you wont' have to worry about it under "normal" use (or beyond normal use within reason :-)

Cheers!

Creator Steve Pappas on February 14

Hi Daniel!

Thank you!

Yes, it's so cool!

And this is just the beginning.

Thank you so much for your pledge, support, and kind words :-)

Best,

Steve :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on February 11

Hi Alexandre!

You're welcome; my pleasure :-)

As a backer, you have a right to ask any and all questions you may have about the project and I am duty bound to answer!

Glad the answer was helpful.

Yes, can't wait to get them to you to share product!

Best,

Steve :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on February 11

Hi Alexandre!

Thank you for your kind words and question.

That little bit of deformation you see existed before the 50 3x5 index cards were inserted into the TacTiClip.

Check at 47 seconds into the video when I say ". . .this thin and sleek. . . " and you can see that the TacTiClip has that bit of deflection already.

This is my personal clip, which I have been using for several weeks and have "put through the wringer" so to speak.

It's held up in a most excellent manner, and has picked up that little deflection / deformation along the way.

You may experience this as well, depending upon how hard you work the clip, which would have to be pretty hard.

If this does happen, suggest you not bend it back the other way, but leave it in its "new normal" position.

This is what I've done.

What you want to avoid is working the clip back and forth through the spot where it may have deflected.

Of course, if you really bend it out of shape , which is quite hard to do, requiring much more than the equivalent of 50 3x5 index cards, you may have to consider bending it back, depending upon how far it has deformed.

So, try not to use more than 50 index cards worth of a material's width in the clip.

(I did not try the test with a brand new clip, and 50 index cards may "fly" with no deformation to speak of. Several of my tests went beyond 50 index cards worth of material width. For discussion purposes, we can say 50 index cards worth of width is a "working limit.")

Also, may I add that index cards vary in thickness, depending upon the manufacturer. The index cards I used in the video were from "Office Max."

And, that's for the large TacTiClip.

Have not performed the index card test with the small TacTiClip, but intuitively, something less than 50 index cards would be the limit before some minor deformation might occur.

The "don't try this at home" disclaimer applies :-)

Basically, under "normal" use, you should experience no deformation to speak of, even after extended use.

I'm still using the same clip, working it hard, but is has stayed the same as you see it in the video.

Finally, the more flexible the material is that you are storing in the clip, the more you can store.

This is best exemplified by the pictures above the video, which show the small TacTiClip holding 44 widths of currency easily. In this case, the currency bends to the TacTiClip rather than the other way around.

With thicker amounts of a relatively inflexible material, the TacTiClip will start bending to accommodate the material's characteristics and depth of stack.

Deformation really becomes a factor when you're inserting larger quantities of relatively inflexible material like index card stock or plastic cards.

Great question and hope this helps!

Please, more questions as you like!!

Thanks again for your kind word and best regards,

Steve :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on February 3

Hi Brad!

Yes, that's one of the good ideas to consider along with anodizing and a couple of other things.

Not sure yet.

Will keep you posted.

Thank you :-)

Creator Steve Pappas on February 2

:-) Hi Brad! First, thanks for the message to my health! Almost 100% :-)

Yes, 5 digit pledge level reached! Sweet.

Will think about the home "stretch" :-)

Best,

Steve :-)