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Title: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: oldschoolace on July 16, 2012, 10:55 AM

Just bought a quilted troxel style seat that was made by MK shoji co. Ltd, Osaka Japan (will bang a pic up later)
Does anyone know anything about them and could they be related to Kashimax as the seat has a plastic base and they are in the same town?

Cheers all  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: oldschoolace on July 17, 2012, 09:04 PM

Anyone?  :-[

Title: Re: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: monkian on July 17, 2012, 09:26 PM

Osaka was the industrial heartland of Japan. Loads of manufacturing companies would have been based there.
There were collaborations between different makers suppling or making parts for each other and also family connections between companies...
Personally, I think it's unlikely that a Kashimax made seat would have been made without some kind of identifying mark though.

I could be wrong mind ;)

Title: Re: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on July 17, 2012, 09:34 PM

pic please ;)

Title: Re: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: oldschoolace on July 17, 2012, 10:07 PM

Working on it Bendy  :daumenhoch: The family camera aint up to the job so breaking out the big gun  ;D

Title: Re: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: BENDYCAT ELEVENTEEN on July 17, 2012, 10:48 PM

draw a picture of it  :crazy2:

Title: Re: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: MickRich393 on July 20, 2012, 11:42 AM

Not much help I know but Osaka's a bloody big city! 

Title: Re: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: monkian on July 28, 2012, 04:21 PM

This is stamped on the bottom of an Elina Aero Turbo 81:

M.K. Shoji Co. Ltd.
Foreign Trade Division of K. Saddle MF(C?) Co. Ltd.
NJS Made in Japan

Title: Re: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: oldschoolace on July 28, 2012, 04:31 PM

Yep thats the same as mine word for word, nice one Monkian  :daumenhoch:

so its essentially an Elina troxel/quilted style seat?  :-\

Title: Re: MK seat, Osaka Japan
Post by: monkian on July 28, 2012, 05:01 PM

Elina Super Pro maybe? ???