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8/16/2013

Laptop Feet

Rubber feet on the bottom of your laptop are as important as the hard drive and monitor!  Well, maybe that is not so true, but they are critical and greatly contribute to your computer’s health.  When laptops run, they create heat.  To prevent them from overheating, rubber feet raise and elevate the laptop enough from the tabletop surface to allow an air flow.  Without bumpers, laptops can overheat, causing it to shut off automatically, freeze, and even damage your computer battery. 

Sometimes, the factory issued rubber feet on the bottom of laptops fall off.  Luckily, Bumper Specialties laptop replacement feet are easy to apply and stay secured.  Just peel them like a sticker, and place them on the bottom of your laptop, easy as that!  No screws or glue are required.  Replacing your laptop feet is easy!
People use our replacement rubber feet for some of the largest laptop manufactures in the world.  They are used for replacement on HP, Toshiba, Asus, Sony, and Dell laptop rubber feet.  Our most popular choices come from our cylindrical bumper line.  Our Hemispherical and Square rubber feet are popular options too.   

For Macbook Pro replacement feet, we manufacture a similar bumper to those that originally came on the Apple laptop.  Our BS-39 is similar to existing Mac book rubber feet.  They are easy to apply with our special self adhesive backing.  Here is a detailed video we found that shows how to replace feet on a Macbook.


As a manufacturer we sell our rubber feet in bulk, but we have smaller quantities available on our website with a single sheet option.  Bumper Specialties has authorized distributers throughout the world that can help you find your replacement laptop feet.


Bumper Specialties has a broad range of rubber feet, so you can be sure to find one that suites your laptop best!  

7/18/2013

Rubber Feet for Coasters

Rubber feet protect your coasters, and coasters protect your table tops!



coasters with rubber feet

Bumper Specialties bumperstops have many applications, including rubber feet for coasters.  This particular application is most popular with granite, glass, and ceramic coasters.  Our bumper stops strongly adhere to the bottom surface of the coaster to keep the coaster from slipping or sliding on the tabletop.  Additionally, since our rubber feet are 100% polyurethane, they will not damage, scuff, or stain your table tops.

Craft Fusion Ltd. makes beautiful glass coasters with our bumper stops!
One of our customers, Craft Fusion Limited, creates beautiful glass art for over 100 galleries throughout the United Kingdom.  Bumper Specialties is happy to sell bumper stops in the UK.  As a matter of fact, we presently ship our bumper feet to over 70 countries!  All our rubber feet are available in clear, so they will be invisible and not detract from the glass art.  Keep stunning glass art protected with our high quality crystal clear bumpers and avoid the hassle of other unsightly stoppers.


Other companies use felt or cork to keep their coasters in place.  However, Bumper Specialties bumper stops will not crack, break, or wear out like these other materials.  Try using Bumper Specialties rubber feet on the bottom of your coasters to see the quality and improvement that comes with our products!  

7/10/2013

Door Stops

Almost every door needs a door stop to protect against damaging the walls when opening.  Hinge doors and sliding doors alike both require a door stopper.  Bumper Specialties has designed the perfect solution to preventing wall damage from door knobs.



Hinge Doors


Our bumper, the BS-30, is a self adhesive door bumper that sticks to the wall behind the door where the door handles would make contact with the wall.  Without a door buffer in place, the door handles would scratch, crack, or damage the wall.
Some door stops are screwed into the floor to prevent the door from hitting.  Other door stops are screwed into the bottom corner of the door.  These methods both work, but they require extra hardware expense and time labor. Lastly, you can stub your toes on them!

Other door bumpers that mount on the wall require being screwed into a stud.  Our protective door stoppers are easy to apply, but still have a strong bond to the wall and are very secure.  Our most popular color is our clear door stops which blend into the wall.  We also carry black, brown, grey, and white door stoppers.

Sliding Doors


Sliding doors can crash into the door frame when they slide on their track.  This can damage and weaken the door frame.  Instead, try using a small door stop on the inside of the door frame to cushion the sliding door.

Try one of our door stops today and see the improvement in your walls, door frames, décor and comfort!

Drawer Bumper Pads

Rubber drawer pads protect hardware from wearing out and breaking caused by opening and closing.  Rubber Pads should be placed on the corners of the drawer to cushion the drawer when it closes.  This prevents abuse on the hardware and sliders.
bumper pads for drawers
Bumper pads protect drawers!



Without rubber drawer stops, your drawers can slam loudly.  Bumper pads protect drawer sliders and other hardware pieces.  Using cabinet drawer bumpers will prolong the life of drawer sliders and hardware.  Silence is golden, so try Bumper Specialties drawer pads to see the improvement in your drawers.

6/25/2013

Bumper Stops for Large Projects or Small Inventors

Kickstarter facilitates inventors and entrepreneurs getting their products up and running.  They help entrepreneurs raise money to get their products to the market.  Kickstarter has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to fund thousands of creative projects. 

Our Bumper Specialties blog also supports inventive products that use our bumper stops.  We support start-up companies that come up with useful and innovative projects that may need bumper stops for extra protection.  We usually get involved when designers are putting the finishing touches on their products and need rubber feet for sound dampening or spacing.  When the Kickstarter project "The mPrinter" needed rubber feet to prevent sliding and skidding, they chose Bumper Specialties bumper stops.

The mPrinter is a small printer that uses thermal printing to produce small snippets of information, called “mPrints” from either WiFi or USB connection.  mPrinter can print just about anything—including HTML, text, pictures, or even “custom hosted” Java Script.   
the mPrinter featuring rubber feet
The mPrinter uses Bumper Specialties rubber feet

In addition to providing quality bumper stops to small start ups like mPrinter, Bumper Specialties manufactures millions rubber feet a day.  As a manufacturer of bumper stops, we can supply large companies’ high volume of rubber feet.  We make it simple for customers that have an increasing bumper demand and need to buy rubber feet in bulk.  Even with these large volume orders, we have short lead times and better logistic options because we manufacture on site.   This means our sales representatives can constantly communicate their customer’s needs with our plant managers almost instantly.  Bumper Specialties is ready to supply and help when a small invention grows into a popular product!  

6/21/2013

Cabinet Door Stops

Bumper Specialties: Industry Leader in Cabinet Door Protection

Cabinet door stops rank as one of Bumper Specialties most popular applications.  It’s amazing how certain sounds can make you cringe: your beeping alarm clock, a blaring car horn, and yes, the awful sound a cabinet makes when it slams shut!  Lucky for you, we have engineered the best sound dampening cabinet door stops in the industry.  Our bumper stoppers are designed with a softer durometer than the rest of our standard line to help cushion the door close. This provides our customers with a silent close and not that rattling smack!

You can find our door bumpers on kitchen cabinets or bathroom cabinets.  Some cabinets use screw in bumpers or threaded plastic feet, but they have higher labor and machinery costs.  Instead, our door stops are easy to apply, just peel of the back and stick on the inside corner of the cabinet to buffer the door from the cabinet frame—it will strongly adhere to the door with no extra work for you.  Furthermore, Bumper Specialties uses 100% polyurethane to make our rubber cabinet door stops, which is a higher quality compared to cork stops or foam pads.  Try our cabinet bumpers and hear the difference in your home too!




6/11/2013

Amplify Your New iRadio Experience with an Acoustic Dock

Rubber feet are used to protect iPhone and iPad accessories!


The world is abuzz with the new update to the iPhone and iPad operating system.  Not only has Apple redesigned iOS7, they updated iTunes with the iRadio feature that introduces a streaming service like Pandora.  If you plan on using Apple’s new music service, you should try listening to it with Schuttenworks wooden acoustic docks for iPhones.

bumper feet on iPhone dock
Bumper feet on Acoustic Dock


iPhone dock
Schuttenworks iPhone dock
Schuttenworks creates handcrafted wooden accessories, stands, and docks for the several different Apple products.  Schuttenworks chooses Bumper Specialties rubber feet to use on the bottom of their docks to minimize sound vibration and to keep the dock in place to prevent sliding on surfaces.  These docks give an earthy look to the commonly sterile looking charging stand.  They also amplify the sound of the built in iPhone speakers without using any extra power.  Just like Bumper Specialties rubber feet, these stands are proudly Made in the USA. 

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