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Outdoor Hot Tub Kit

Jan-Erik Lundkvist with his own Outdoor.

Outdoor Hot Tub Kit - for you who have a Logosol PH260, DH410, MH410 or a MF30.

We make it easy for you by providing you with good instructions and all components needed except for the timber and the wood screws. It is both easy and fun to build, and the result is really impressive. The hot tub looks nice in its simplest design, but if you like, you can spend a lot of time on decorations, wooden deck and other conveniences around your new treasure.

Article no: 7500-000-7000

The kit includes:
1 book of instructions
1 Stove of aluminium
1 grating of stainless steel
1 baffle plate of stainless steel
1 cover with wooden handle
2 galvanized chimney flues
1 galvanized chimney top
1 outlet of stainless steel
2 pipe connection of rubber
1 plastic pipe with bend
1 straight plastic pipe (overflow outlet)
1 hose clamp
2 hoops of aluzink, L:6.7 m
4 bolted joints of lacquered steel
4 screw plates for the bolted joints
4 M12 threaded bars
8 M12 nuts with washers
16 M8 flathead screws with washers & nuts
10 fleur-de-lis of lacquered steel
6 bench brackets of galvanized steel

Sawing is Silver, Planing is Golden

Bengt-Olov Byström started his company Logosol 20 years ago.

Is it possible to turn wood into gold? What possibilities are there of starting a business in the field of small-scale wood processing? The inventor and business owner Bengt-Olov Byström gives his best tips to those who are thinking about becoming self-employed! Since 1989 he runs the company Logosol, which today manufactures and sells products for small-scale wood processing all over the world.

"Many of our customers realize their dreams with the help of our machines. They process their timber and build that veranda, outdoor hot tub or log house they have dreamt of for so long. Many of them also start their own business. We who work at Logosol have close contact with our customers, and we often hear fantastic stories about small businesses that have developed around our products," Bengt-Olov Byström says.

The Logosol Sawmill was a success

Being able to get hold of the most valuable part of a tree, the planks and the boards, was Bengt-Olov Byström’s driving force when he developed the Logosol Sawmill. The product became a great success and opened up new possibilities for small-scale wood processing all over the world. The Logosol Sawmill is still the basis of the family business, but Logosol’s planer/moulders are also important components which take the processing one step further as they turn the planks and boards into mouldings and panelling.
"Our planer/moulders are moneymakers. For every board that is machined through the planer/moulder you earn nearly two quid," the business owner Bengt-Olov Byström says contentedly.

Easy to make fantastic production calculations

When it comes to starting a business in the field of small-scale wood processing, one can easily make fantastic production calculations. The difficult part is to find your customers. In other words, producing is not the problem, selling is.
"It is essential that you look at the demands of the customers. You have to consider that the profitability is considerably better the more processed the timber is," says Bengt-Olov Byström, and gives us an example that shows how you with your own planer/moulder can produce special mouldings:
When buying a complete planing/moulding line that, in continuous use, produces 500 metre moulding per hour, the investment is approx. £8000. If the price for an unprocessed board is £0.60 per metre and you sell the planed board for £2.25 per metre you earn £577.50 even if 30% of the boards are sorted out. The planer/moulder would be paid off in two working days! In practice, however, it will take considerably longer time than two days to market your product, and find customers and sales channels. Building up a business from the bottom can take several years.

A fast machine is not the most important

"The example shows that buying a faster machine to earn money is perhaps not an interesting alternative. How much money you will earn when working with small-scale wood processing mainly depends on whether you can sell the products and what prices you can get," Bengt-Olov Byström states.

Do not try to compete with the discount stores!

"If you want to make a profit on small-scale wood processing, you should not try to compete with discount stores. Instead, you should concentrate on customers that want to pay a little extra. For instance, you can produce panelling of boards that are somewhat thicker. But you can also try your hand at producing more advanced products that the industry cannot produce today, panelling made of locally produced hardwood, for instance," says Bengt-Olov Byström.
Finding special products is even more important to the Logosol Sawmill owner. To make a profit he must specialize in pine heartwood, for instance, or wide rough-edged panel boards. Or why not twelve metre long beams!

Tormek, the best at grinding in the world

One day in 1973, Torgny Jansson had a brainwave when he was turning a grindstone for his father Erik.
"There must be another way of doing this," this carpentry interested and technically accomplished man thought, who was then a constructor at SSAB in Stråssa in Sweden.
Today, he is the owner and CEO of Tormek AB in Lindesberg, world-leading in the field of water-cooled grinding. Tormek sells its machines to retailers in the whole of Europe, America, South Africa, Australia and Canada. In Sweden, the machines are sold by Logosol, amongst others.

Håkan Persson, vice-president and marketing manager, is sharpening a planer knife using the jig SVH-320.

Torgny Jansson, constructor, CEO and owner of the company.

"Every one who has learnt to appreciate and understand the importance of having sharp tools is our customer," says Håkan Persson, vice-president and marketing manager.
Tormek has attracted much attention all over the world. A periodical rack is filled with special magazines for non-professional carpenters and other magazines, which in different articles praise Tormek to the skies.
The first water-cooled grinding machine that Torgny Jansson designed, was run by an electric drill. It was a success, and Luna, the biggest tool wholesaler in Sweden, bought 100 grinders. The constructor and his father produced the grinders in their spare time, in their home in Storvik.

Since then, the product development has unceasingly continued. The breakthrough came with the universal support, which makes it possible to fit jigs to the machine and then sharpen different tools. Today, Tormek’s jig system includes twelve jigs, enabling you to sharpen e.g. planer knives, moulding knives and other types of cutting tools, with a perfect result and full control. Through the cooperation with Mattias Byström at Logosol, the jig for moulding knives was designed. Now, the next generation of water-cooled grinding machines is on the market, Tormek T-7 with two patent pending solutions, which is a product of such quality that the company takes the risk of giving a seven-year warranty.
Tormek, which develops the products, buys the components and markets the products, has 16 employees. The subcontractors are mainly Swedish companies.

"We are very experienced in the sharpening business," says Pontus Gyllby, responsible for the Nordic market. "Today, we offer a complete solution to sharpening, which includes a grinding machine, grinder jigs, accessories and knowledge.
Tormek holds its own in the competition. "This is due to the quality and continuous development of the products. Most of those who bought a water-cooled grinding machine from Tormek 20 years ago still use it today and supplement it with the latest innovations of jigs and accessories. It is our high-quality and well-functioning machines that make us the best," Håkan Persson states.
If you choose to buy a Tormek you will get value for your money, is the philosophy of the company. And you will also receive a good handbook. It is written by Torgny Jansson, and is every year published in a revised edition of 20 000 copies in six different languages!
"I could never have guessed that my idea by the grindstone would lead to this," Torgny Jansson says. But the demands are great, considering all the dull knives and tools there are in the world.