John Shindelar: Inventor is Spillville native

Spillville native and inventor, John Shindelar has had a great learning experience the last five years transforming ideas into viable products with two inventions that have evolved from prototypes to ready-to-sell items called Rhino Tuff Cart and Cap. John and two partners have been issued two patents within the last eight months for a collapsible cart and a cap that is widely used in electrical applications with PVC pipe and sales on their website out of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho has been very good.

As a electrician by trade he explains how the invention came about, “The cart was created due to a wish that I had on jobsites to haul around electrical items, have a work surface to keep job items in order and then easily collapse down the cart to fit it in the small space available in the back of the work truck. After much research on the internet, I found that there was no such cart available. Hence, the Rhino Tuff Collapsible Cart was born. The electrical cap had the same thought process; I wished for some way to mark the conduit and keep it together temporarily during electrical layout without the use of sticky duct tape and messy spray paint. The Rhino Tuff Cap was created that saves over 50% labor time while keeping the conduit clean and dry and easy to mark for connections and is lightweight and reusable as well.”

Read the full article in the April 16 edition of the Courier.