ice fishing slammers and automatic jigging devices?

[MMDon]

You can make as many as you like as long as you don't market them.

Their disclaimer is a bit negative. I'd have just stopped with the first line in red:

[center][#ff0000][size 3]Although they say, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" -
AVOID IMITATIONS OF SLAMMER TIP-UPS™ !!![/size][/#ff0000][/center]
[center][size 2] There are "take-offs" of the Slammer Tip-Up™ and our prototypes using trip-wires and other mechanisms to hold your rod tip and compress your rod unnaturally, WHICH IS DANGEROUS, that are being marketed as "slammers" or "just like a slammer" and even using parts of our original slogan - "Your Downrigger on Ice" - but THEY ARE NOT SLAMMERS. One of the rod-tip breaking devices being copied is known as a "Tripper", which is a close take-off of the poorly designed Whip-Up, which were hand-made to fit a particular solid fiberglass rod. Most, if not ALL, of these home-made and commercially produced contraptions have a plastic or metal tube rod holder that is NOT adjustable, could break in cold weather, and could freeze your rod butt in solid. The open coil design of the Slamco rod-holder (derived from the Jo-Boy ICE FISHING rod-holders) eliminates rod-holder "freeze-up", is adjustable, and absorbs torque applied by big fish cranking on your rod.[/size][/center]
[center][size 2]You're NOT GOING TO LOSE OR BREAK YOUR ROD and you're going to CATCH MORE FISH with a SLAMMER TIP-UP!!![/size][/center]
[center][size 2] THESE "COPY-CAT" DEVICES APPEARING HERE AND THERE, COMPRESS YOUR ROD UNNATURALLY, PUT EXCESSIVE PRESSURE ON THE ROD TIP, AND COULD CAUSE YOUR ROD OR TIP TO BREAK !!![/size][/center]

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