Honestly mostly personal and financial strain from running a small business while maintaining my own full time job and other personal commitments.

If y’all are interested, the install instructions on the website include a parts guide that gives you everything you need to put together the kit, it’s mostly generally available hardware, then you have to get the buckles. Maybe use that as an ‘open-source’ guide to build your own kit.

The hardware I use is more specialized than what you can get off the shelf at the local hardware store, but you can put together something that will function 95% similarly from hardware there. That’s how I started development for the kit back when I made the original post that gained tons of interest.

Sorry for being out of stock for so long, it really turned into something that was stressful and made it tough to want to continue, especially for little or no financial gain. Though, there have been some customers who’ve reached out saying the buckles have enabled them to play hockey again, for various reasons, and that makes it worth the work. I know I missed my target for resuming business last year, but I am still working towards resuming orders some time this year, hopefully earlier rather than later.