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“Devine Invention Caused By Intervention” “The Shuttle Driver” By Stephen Mason.
So! Where do I start, to tell my story of success? Somewhere at the beginning, I
suppose, so here goes! I will try to cut a long story short with getting the formalities
out of the way first and introduce whom I am. My name is Stephen Mason; I am
thirty-four years old! Currently live in the U.K., Mevagissey in Cornwall to be exact.
I am a family man with four loving but hyper kids, all under thirteen years old, three
boys, one girl and a loving wife. And they are all a handful. They would say I am
handful. Therefore I must be! Yes! We are a loud but loving, productive family, very
close, open and down to earth.
Formalities now out of the way, I will try to give you an understanding of my
background and proceed to try to explain how I arrived to start my success.
In 1993, I moved from Cambridgeshire to return to the place that I was born, back to
Newquay, Cornwall, to start a new life.
In time, I met my loving wife and within twelve months we had our first baby boy on
his way, this event in my life was a jumpstart to getting myself motivated to
generate an income for my new appointed family. I decided to venture into my own
business, being hard working and ambitious, I started to make a successful career in
domestic and industrial window cleaning.
At the start funds to set this business up were limited and I painstakingly built it up
firstly with just the basic tools, no transport, nothing but my own two feet to carry
me and my tools from one location to the other carrying ladders and bucket and
initially cleaning windows at domestic houses, all over the Newquay area.
Times were hard but as time and persistence past, things gradually built up,
transport was finally obtained and so forth, then eventually, after a couple of years I
managed to obtain my first car for the business and there was no more walking up to
ten miles a day with ladders in one hand and a bucket in the other.
Through persistence and gaining a good reputation, mainly by word of mouth, my
business started to grow relatively fast to the point where I was eventually
responsible for two hundred and fifty domestic houses per week, also thirteen large
supermarkets in the Cornwall area. I was the best in the west, excuse the pun.
I was self-taught and in a league of my own and was much deserving of the success I
had gained. So you could say, “So what happened next?”
Inevitably my worst nightmare come true, being a window cleaner, maintaining and
providing a service covering the main supermarkets in the county of Cornwall I was
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cars and their engines; the car was taxing me for the cost of vehicle maintenance etc.
Eventually this all started to take its toll.
My worst nightmare comes true. My vehicle kept breaking down and the
accumulative effect was that I found myself unable to maintain the expense to repair
my vehicle.
Eventually I was unable to keep up with the contracts to maintain the service I had
been providing and failed the demands on me. This escalated to the point where I
lost the contracts and at this time my third baby boy was on his way.
Inevitably I lost the business because of no financial support from anywhere. At that
time cars would affect me to the extreme. I would wake up in cold sweats in the
night in fear of the inevitable happening and eventually sure enough the car did
completely breakdown on me. This business sadly ended; it was time to start again,
something new!
Persistence is the key! Pick the pieces up and start again regardless of the
circumstances, during any shameful given time. All because I did not know my way
around a car or an engine, I was beating myself up because of that fact, I then
decided to try and overcome my worst fear and this is when things started to move
on.
We can overcome our worst nightmares and fulfil our greatest dreams! With enough
faith, determination and persistence, etc., but mainly most of all self-belief! As the
truthful words from scripture say, “Even though stumbling blocks will come, we shall
and will prevail” also “With faith alone we can move mountains.”
To build and make something over seven years or any length of time with all the
hard work and then to watch it dissipate into thin air is very difficult, it makes you
question what is life all about? It becomes difficult to pick up the pieces and start
over again.
Life is too short to wallow into the past, your future is what counts, grab it while you
have the chance before you realise it is too late. We can learn from our mistakes,
this can make us stronger characters and more determined to succeed the next time.
The alternative is not the way, to fail and to not succeed; to give up, negativity is not
the way!
Only a positive attitude will succeed, anyway, less of the lecturing. Fate was to start
to take its place. A new future was about to unfold, even though it was not told to
me; Life was to turn a new corner.
As I declared to myself that I was to overcome my worst nightmare; I put it upon
myself that I was ready to face my demons. To learn where in the past, life had let
me and my family down. We were all subjected to extreme hardship as a result of
the broken down car then in turn losing the business. With the loss of income,
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I also found out at this time that I have an in-operable hernia caused by lifting
ladders and this caused me to become inactive due to ill health. Being stagnant; I
had time on my hands!
I had to take things at my own pace, I had to come to terms with my illness but it
was time to start teaching myself the workings of an internal combustion engine and
the mechanics of how vehicles work.
Self-taught is a good way to learn, you could say I went from knowing nothing to
knowing everything possible to do with the internal combustion engine and the
mechanics of how vehicles work. I went from one extreme to the other, without any
question or reason of a doubt; I had overcome my demons with vengeance.
My personal plight took nearly three years to achieve; I can now dismantle an
engine, strip it down to its bare and individual components and probably put it all
back together better than it did the day it left the factory. I have friends and family
that rely on my expertise and advice, I can now give a more honest and accurate
diagnosis than the average garage and do this without using computers. I have
achieved more than I ever thought possible.
I have become so experienced at mechanics and more. I am now an expert
technician and fabricator, finding solutions for problems and even then achieve to
such a level, I have become an inventor of a tool.
The tool I have invented is revolutionary and beneficial to any industry in the world
that has anything remotely to do with the application and extraction of any type of
nut, bolts and screws.
This tool will work in tight and confined spaces for example; car engine compartment
or aperture and to assist in restricted access areas for the quick application and
extraction of the specified nut, bolt or screw in question. This would normally be a
tedious, difficult time consuming task with the current conventional method, being
the ratchet spanner and socket set.
I have called my innovation the “Shuttle Driver”. The “Shuttle Driver” is a time,
labour and cost saving device.
The “Shuttle Driver” systemoverrides the conventional system“Ratchet Spanner,”
with more pros than cons against the conventional system“Ratchet Spanner”.
The “Shuttle Drivers” potential is mind blowing on its own compared, but with both
systems in partnership the “Shuttle Driver” enhances the potential of the “Ratchet
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By confronting my demons head on, I have through divine intervention and chance,
due to the intense learning curve I put myself through, unintentionally and by
accident invented probably the next best thing since the “Ratchet Spanner” system.
This was my point of “eureka!" I just knew the way that I had discovered the
innovation, it was the way it just came to me! I had never seen anything remotely
like it before; I must add that I am an avid collector of tools (specialist tools as a
rule). The fact is that there has been nothing invented like it before. From that
moment on, I knew this tool’s potential was mind blowing.
Two questions I asked myself at that time, “when?” and “how?” When I discovered
the formula to make this tool work, it was clear as day light to me, knowing the
complicated physics involved but to look at, simple to the eye.
For example, “caveman has got a square wheel and he cannot see the round wheel
for the life of him.” It is as if it has been starring us in the face all along. I was the one
who discovered the innovation, and I formulated and then fabricated it. Regardless it
did involve my expertise and brains.
It is mind blowing to think that I have discovered a solution to a problem that would
help every human being on this planet one way or another whether they know it or
not. It is a nice satisfying thought. In addition, it will make the way the world
function differently. After all, the entire world is held together in one way or another
with nuts, bolts and screws. (Every industry known to man I think you will find!).
I have managed to invent (and aimunintentionally); a niche tool for a worldwide
market, nobody can forecast the “Shuttle Driver’s” versatile potential as it will be
applied effectively to all of the industries worldwide; it is also impossible to forecast
the “Shuttle Driver’s” value in financial terms. I am just grateful that the “Shuttle
Driver” has finally been recognised and has received the acclamation that it
deserves!
Discovering the innovation bought its own problems, I suddenly felt like the whole
world was on my shoulders and it was a difficult time for me, because this had all
come about so fast and purely by chance.
It all started when a neighbour of mine approached me and said that his friend had
an old “mark two,” very rare Volkswagen Passat GL5 which needed a new home or it
was to be scrapped. I was unsure, so I arranged a meeting with him to take a look at
the car.
Once I saw the old wreck I fell in love with it! The car was given to me for free, but it
was in one sorry state. This was to be my new project, and I set to work on it straight
away. Over a period of four years I have managed to completely restore the Passat
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I discovered the tool half way through the restoration period. I have a reputation of
being a persistent person when it comes to starting a job on a car, once I start I like
to see the particular job through until it has been finished. I am not one of those
mechanics that will start a job and then stop and leave it for another day.
I spent nearly three weeks painstakingly restoring the cylinder head, (it took this long
because of the lack of available internal components as the Passat GL5 was a limited
edition in 1986 so it makes the spares difficult to obtain, also one main important
rule is the “preparation”, is nine tenths of the job.) It was January a cold and bitter
period in the UK.
It was about 3:30am and the temperature outside was about -5c. Persistent as I am,
I continued to work through the night and refused to acknowledge just how bitterly
cold it was. I have a system in which I prepare myself prior to going out of the house
to do the task.
With the correct tool in hand and then execute the instalment on the target
component (nut or bolt) in question as quick as possible and then get back into the
house to re warm myself ready for the next task.
I under estimated just how cold it was out there. That night I finally admitted to
myself that it was “COLD” and this is when I started to think that the current
conventional method I was using, was taking too long.
I started to think “there has to be a quicker way than this?” because at this rate
using the ratchet and socket systemI could have lost either my fingers or toes due to
frost bite by the time I had applied or extracted the nut, bolt and the part.
The conventional way is effective but it is time consuming and labour intensive. If
you are paying a garage and they are using the same conventional method, you are
paying the mechanic in the garage to do it at an hourly rate. This means high bills for
you and earns more money for them.
The problem with the current method is. It is difficult to gain access with the ratchet
and sockets in tight and confined spaces. It is also labour intensive and time
consuming (as well as tedious) doing the little quarter turns, with the “Ratchet
System”. Also the weather conditions; the cold, rain and wind and not forgetting the
bad back! It is a hard life for a mechanic! Or is it? Well I believe it is not anymore,
thanks to the innovation, the “Shuttle Driver!”
From personal experience and what understanding I have picked up along the way
about the subject of Innovations, is that some of the most affective and versatile
inventions are usually the simplest but genius devices, as so is the “shuttle Driver”,
this is what I would call an honest innovation. It is basic to the eye and straight
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It is similar to the innovation of the scissors. As a solution to the problem we tend to
think complicated rather than simple. The easy things are the ones that when we see
them, it is the case of “why didn’t I think of that” fact is you did not and that is the
difference, the answer most of the time is starring us straight in the face and we
tend not to see it.
Similar to the night I invented the “Shuttle Driver”, I thought to myself there must be
a faster, easier way than the conventional method, and there is! Most people have
access to a home drill, this is the drive source to the “Shuttle Driver”; the drill
contains the gears, drive, rotation and direction to turn the “Shuttle Driver” at the
desired speed.
The only similar system that exists to date is the air compression systemwhich is not
always convenient or feasible. In order to have the air compression system up and
running, you need to have all the required equipment and it costs anything in the
region of five hundred to ten thousand pounds for the full system. You are also
limited to using commercial premises for example a garage, also the hoses are
restricted and a hindrance in confined spaces.
The systemI have configured can be used anywhere providing you have a cordless or
mains drill available (i.e. mains plug, car cigarette lighter adapter or Crocodile clips to
the vehicles 12volt battery). Road side repairs can be carried out effectively and
safely, also quicker for motorway scenarios, so the recovery services can get on their
way quicker, freeing up more recovery units to help more unfortunate mechanical
failure victims stuck on the side of the motorway.
When I realised the solution as the revelation came to me, I took out my fabrication
box that is full of bits and pieces and started to think to myself “what if I do this,
what if I do that”. I then found the ingredients from my fabrication box and it all
clicked into place. I could not believe what I have done, so simple but genius.
Firstly, I used small nuts and bolts then fused them with fibre glass to hold the
components in position to see if it would work. Just by using primitive available
fabrication materials, I tested it again and again and sure enough it works.
I was jumping up and down like a big kid shouting to myself “yes it works, yes it
works” to the point that even though it was now 5:00 am I wanted to tell the whole
world. I wanted to wake my wife and tell her but this was impractical as I knew she
would not understand its potential or appreciate what I had achieved.
Later that morning everything started to dawn on me that “yes” I had invented
something but the potential was mind blowing, it was surreal and hard to take in.
I realised that I have just opened one big can of worms, what do I do now? That’s
when I realized just how big this is to be, I felt ill, sick, scared, worried, because I
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Who can I talk to that would listen to me seriously? The thought dawned on me that
someone might try to copy my innovation. You name it, all the fears in the world hit
me, I was pleased but at the same time reserved. To top it all, when my wife came
down that morning she was looking at me rather strange and when I tried to tell her
my good news, she looked at me like I was on another planet, especially when I told
her it was going to BIG! She thought I was a nut, gone crazy! It finally took her six
months from that date to recognise what I had invented and to understand the basic
knowledge of what the “Shuttle Driver” was. I realised I had no option but to hold
my cards close to my chest. This was very frustrating; I was on my own on this one.
These were exciting times but also difficult ones. I was the only person that really
knew the true potential of the “Shuttle Driver” and the more I thought about it the
more I realised its escalating potential, I knew what it is capable of. I tried to explain
to my close family members about the “shuttle Driver” but they dismissed my claims
with the attitude of disbelief.
As you can imagine this was disheartening and upsetting for me when the most
important people in my life were not giving me the encouragement and support
when I needed it most. It can be really difficult to keep positive about something
when people are showing so much negativity.
From there on I decided to keep quiet about the “Shuttle Driver”. The reasons for
this being firstly the secrecy reason and secondly because of the negative response
from the important people around me, I could not win either way!
Family and friends could not see beyond the end of their noses but with hindsight
this was just the start of what was to come; I soon came to realise that this was the
least of my worries compared to what I have had to face since.
I was starting to enter no-mans-land, not knowing which direction I should take or
the correct way forward. Even though I was not being taken seriously by the people
closest to me I still had to be cautious and diligent and have my guard about me, it
was so frustrating, the responsibility that I realised I had, the need to be careful to
whom I disclosed any information about the “Shuttle Driver”.
There are those people who will try to harm you, they are like ravenous wolves and
praying lions to take what it is that you have got and what is rightfully yours, they
will try and steal your inventions and so your given right to prosper from it. So heed
my warning any other inventors out there. Do not be quick to give too much
information away; it is hard I know because I have been there myself.
The next stage was to find myself a trusted patent attorney, this is when I finally got
the potential recognition, the confirmation I needed. My patent attorney has letters
after his name for physics, so he understands the science behind the “Shuttle Driver”
and has supported, encouraged and guided me in obtaining the patent application,
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Being cautious, trying to find and generate the correct interest, but not knowing
who to approach to help bring the innovation to fruition was difficult with plenty of
discernment required here. There are a lot of wolves in sheep’s clothing, do not
jump in at the first opportunity that comes your way; make sure that you check your
contacts out!
You have to persevere and have plenty of patience, in time you will find the correct
business people and resources. There are genuine honest business people out there
who can help to bring such projects to fruition and give you the recognition your
innovation/s or products deserve. If it is an honest innovation (product) these people
are only interested in seeing you succeed.
From the start I knew it was going to take time but I did not truly realise just how
long it would take. When you are passionate and sure of what it is that you have, in
time you will prevail, regardless of the stumbling blocks you may encounter along
the way (and I have had plenty).
Aim high and you will get there, but remember “it is a dog eat dog world” out there,
so use your discernment wisely, look out for time-wasters, they will even try to
orchestrate and arrange meetings and give false promises just to circumvent you and
circumvention is a nasty business, you may end up with nothing and this can also
ruin people’s lives and dreams.
At the same time you have to be persistent, this is a major key factor and receive all
“feedback” as just that “feedback”, there are many that will try to pull you to the
wayside, remember if you know in your heart, mind and soul that what you have is
real then nothing should stop you achieving your goals and dreams. Even if all seems
lost or failed, do not give up! I have been through enough ups and downs and red
tape and I must say there has been a mile of it.
Even though I have gained my success, the most difficult thing in the last six years
has been to get the people closest to me, family and friends, to actually take my
claims seriously and I have been mocked and laughed upon. Dismiss all negativity,
focus on what you believe in and your goals and dreams will come to fruition.
Give your goals and dreams a chance to succeed and you may even surprise
yourself. My success is that I have achieved a great deal for the world-wide market,
the “Shuttle Driver” is to be delivered to all the major players in the world. The
ambition I had realised during my “eureka!” moment at the time I invented the
“Shuttle Driver” has come to pass.
Divine interventionstruckme andshowedme the way.Whichway coulditshow you yours?