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Otherpower.com and Wondermagnet.com are owned by ForceField--a small business, run completely out of our
homes. Our business and shipping office is in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. It is usually staffed Monday thru Friday, 9-4 Mountain Time, and is a very busy place! Some of our staff live and work in a very remote area west of town, high up in the mountains. They are connected to the office thru the miracle of Starband and Direcway 2-way satellite internet service.
Forcefield's Websites:Otherpower.comA huge FREE resource for alternative energy enthusiasts and experimentors. Build your own low-rpm permanent-magnet alternators, battery chargers, anemometers, windmills, hydro turbines and more. Free information on building remote power systems for cheap. Very active discussion board...get your solar/wind/hydro power questions answered fast! Many DIY projects and experiments. Unusual and hard-to-find components and books!
 We sell our products mostly on the Internet, and also at our retail store in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Forcefield store is located at 614 S. Mason St., just north of the CSU campus. We do have a mail-order catalog available. If you would like a copy, please call, write or email us! Customers may place orders online with the order form and pay via check, money order, paypal, or through our secure credit card processing form. After payment is received, we ship products on the same or next business day via UPS or Priority Mail. If you need faster shipping, call us -- we can ship by FedEx or UPS 2- or 1- day air also. We also sell certain products on Ebay, including magnets and one-of-a-kind experimental science and alternative energy components. Our Ebay user ID is pie, and we have many thousands of positive feedbacks. FORCEFIELD was created in 1998. One day DanB purchased a computer and browsed the web for the first time. He gave eBay a try. Dan immediately became hooked as he experimented selling a variety of odd products, and qucikly discovered that surplus magnets had tremendous appeal. The next step was the creation of the web site. Initially it was a scanned image of a hand-written sign, declaring "FORCE-FIELD" with a phone number. Since then, we have been gradually growing, selling larger numbers of a greater variety of products. Otherpower.com was our next big project, a natural thanks to the remote rural environment where much of our staff lives. Our web sites are continually growing as new products, experiments, information, and functionality are integrated into the pages. The project has grown considerably and has developed into full-time work for many of us. Our goal is to share our information free of charge with anyone who is interested. Information is a very powerful tool, and we hope our experiments with magnets, alternative energy and experimental science are helpful to you. However, if you need magnets, books or science supplies please consider ordering them from us! We hope you find our pages informative, useful and enjoyable.
THE PEOPLEWe all take up slack when it's necessary. We try our hardest to be friendly, honest, and FAST! It is our goal to provide complete satisfaction for each and every one of our customers--please let us know if you are having a problem, and we'll try our best to help. We currently have 4 full-time and 2 part-time employees, some of whom work at the office, some at home.
DanB is the founder and CEO of ForceField. He is President of Mad Scientist Activities and Vintage Electrical Equipment, which means he is involved in every aspect of the company! He lives high up in the mountains west of town with wife Michelle and daughter Maya. Like his brother Matt, he has unusual tastes in cars. DanB plays nearly every stringed musical instrument ever made (guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and (his favorite) washtub bass) and builds his own instruments too.
Maya is our President of Research, Development and Theoretical Physics. She facilitates progress in our cutting-edge quantum electromagnetism, wind power design, and perpetual motion research laboratory. (Maya, at age 7, has a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University.)
Michelle is our President of Support and Retail Services. She runs the retail store and our Ebay sales with Liza, and she helps all Forcefield employees in keeping their sanity. She also provides technical and maternal assistance to Dr. Maya.
Matt is our President of Business Operations, Extreme Golf and Old Dodge Powerwagons. He is often found at our shipping office in town answering the phone, taking orders, solving shipping and inventory problems, and answering Email until the wee hours of the morning. He also has a cabin way up on the mountain, and spends the rest of his time up there playing Extreme Golf, working on his vintage 1953 Jaguar, and pulling his 1951 Dodge Powerwagon out of the crick.
Rich is our President of Packing, Shipping and Magnetic Flux Analysis. He is an expert in cancelling magnetic fields so we can safely ship your magnet orders, and tests each package before it goes out using a scientifically-designed electron-beam-deflection system. He plays a mean upright bass with the Pearl Button Ramblers and the Swing Station house band, and also when we get together and jam up on the mountain. Swing Station is our best (and only) local Honky Tonk, located in Laporte, CO. Liza is our President of Ebay Sales and runs our retail store with Michelle. If you email or call about an Ebay purchase, you'll probably be talking with Liza. No matter how complicated your transaction is, she'll fix you up right! And be sure to catch Liza's weekly radio show every Friday from 6:00 to 7:30 AM Mountain time -- the Poudre Valley Barn Dance, on KRFC 88.9 FM. If you are out of the Colorado front range area, you can stream KRFC live to your computer HERE from anywhere in the world.
DanF is our President of Vices, Web Pages and Firefighting. He produces most of our magnet, experimental science and alternative power web pages, administers the message boards, and writes articles and copy for us. His work has bee published in numerous magazines, both online and on paper. He also lives way up on the mountain, and is on call 24/7 to respond next door to DanB's house when giant balls of flame, huge sparks, and loud noises emit from the Wondermagnet/Otherpower Research Laboratory Facilities Building. He is a State-Certified firefighter for the local Volunteer Fire Dept., and has decided that the only safe way to live next door to DanB is to have a Fire Truck parked in your yard. So he does -- it's a 1967 Jeep 5/4, type 6x wildland engine. DanF plays the banjo, dobro, washtub bass, and trumpet (not at the same time) for the Dog Mountain Band, and built his own banjo.
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