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Football Officiating => General Discussion => Topic started by: Aussie-Zebra on June 23, 2016, 01:03:04 AM
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We have a Pro Down Dial A Down which we inherited fro LFL when they played here however is missing the pole and the connector.
Does anyone know who the manufacturer is ?
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Aussie- the company is known as Tuf-Wear Manufacturing Inc. If you Google search them, most of the results come back to their boxing gear.
Their football equipment is sold through regional distributors and they don't appear to deal direct with customers.
The address and number I find is
1001 Industrial Ave North Platte, Nebraska 69101
(308) 532-0187
Having worked in sporting goods many years ago, my guess is this being corporate HQ, you may get the runaround but somebody there should be able to put you through to someone, somewhere who might can help you with parts. I took one of their Dial-A-Down markers apart for our local high school several years ago. I can tell you they are made of almost 100% plastic. You will probably be better off and easier to just purchase a new one. I understand that shipping it to Australia will probably cost more than its worth.
You might consider jury rigging something yourself or go for a cheaper alternative marker. I prefer the metal ones that flip myself. Down markers get banged up quite a bit and frankly, the all plastic Dial-A-Down isn't going to handle the workload placed on it forever.
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I'm a big fan of making something home-made, and a down box could be one of those things. It will have to be the "flip" kind though, as I'd imagine it would be impossible to make a Dial-A-Down home-made.
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Thx HL.
We already have flip counters, just trying not to waste this one.
I actually bought a dial a down on Ebay for $150 one but the freight was horrendos, The seller let me back out luckily.
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I'm a big fan of making something home-made, and a down box could be one of those things. It will have to be the "flip" kind though, as I'd imagine it would be impossible to make a Dial-A-Down home-made.
Instead of making one from scratch why not find a thin wall metal pole,paint it the same color as the other pole, attach an eyebolt of some kind and connect the chain
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Speaking of home made chain sets, we did a game in the Philipines in 2013. The initial shock of watching the field lines being marked by hand (chalk from a bag being thrown along a piece of string) was soon replaced by the "chains" - 2 pieces of cardboard tied together with a 10 yard piece of string.
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20+ years back, my then area covered a middle school team in an adjacent, rural county. They weren't really an actual school but a collection of 7/8th graders from several local K-8 schools combined to form a team.
They played on a field that had once been part of the neighborhood high school back in the 50's. My mother-in-law actually went there. They had no clock/scoreboard until the late 90's.
Their chain set was once described by my LJ as "two pieces of water pipe connected by a dog chain". There were no heads on the poles, no end caps. They were obviously homemade.
When the county actually built a brick & mortar middle school in that area, they named it after that old high school and continued to use the field. The did get us a clock and a real chain set though.