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Post by synthedup » Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:57 pm

HI all,

We now have a 3d printer in the office at work. Does anyone would like to lend me some top down side covers as a mould?

Then I can look at making some for members much cheaper then OEM.

Its only £14 for 1kg of plastic so should be cost effective :)

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Post by 1000rr » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:07 pm

Interested.
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Post by Monkeydonkeyratmagic » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:11 pm

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Post by srhutch » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:12 pm

synthedup wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:57 pmHI all,

We now have a 3d printer in the office at work. Does anyone would like to lend me some top down side covers as a mould?

Then I can look at making some for members much cheaper then OEM.

Its only £14 for 1kg of plastic so should be cost effective :)
What is the max dimensions you can print?
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Post by 85genius » Wed Jan 17, 2018 2:32 pm

synthedup wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:57 pmHI all,

We now have a 3d printer in the office at work. Does anyone would like to lend me some top down side covers as a mould?

Then I can look at making some for members much cheaper then OEM.

Its only £14 for 1kg of plastic so should be cost effective :)
Couple of guys willing to sell so maybe prepared to lend to you first for a good cause!
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Post by MefiEcosse » Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:48 pm

Also interested once available! :D
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Post by Johnbmwz4 » Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:56 pm

I'd buy some. These will sell like hot cakes
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Post by Ducklakeview » Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:04 pm

Seem to remember this being attempted before, and the problem being getting a printer big enough to do them in one piece?

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Post by Chris_D » Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:12 pm

synthedup wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:57 pmHI all,

We now have a 3d printer in the office at work. Does anyone would like to lend me some top down side covers as a mould?

Then I can look at making some for members much cheaper then OEM.

Its only £14 for 1kg of plastic so should be cost effective :)
I thought about doing this as the company I'm doing some work for at the mo, Ultimaker, have given me a UM3 Extended to play with.
However, even with the extended build volume I calculated that it would take eons and using ABS would probably not yield fantastic results in terms of rigidity etc.
I have a few experimental print heads including one with ruby heads designed to use carbon-fill but I doubt it would last beyond two sets of covers.
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Good luck with the venture. Be interesting to see how your results turn out.... :thumbsup:
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Post by Chris_D » Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:12 pm

Ducklakeview wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:04 pmSeem to remember this being attempted before, and the problem being getting a printer big enough to do them in one piece?

Mike
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Post by Vornwend » Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:33 pm

Also interested. I also wondered if we could get a Chinese company interested in a group buy? Might be a reasonably big worldwide market for these?
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Post by MrPT » Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:51 pm

Not sure our printers would print that size either. I'm sure ABS will be rigid enough, it would just take ages at the required res and thickness. Then it would need smoothing or covering in something like Alcantara.

I reckon the covers would vac form well. You could just print the fixtures. Or even 3D scan and print a single pair of custom moulds for vac forming lots of covers.
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Post by 9designs » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:10 pm

Think the idea would be to get a set scanned and then modify the B surface in CAD to rib and thicken them up to make them stronger. The external will look the same. Perhaps device a better fixing as well. Wouldn't take much to get a quote from a rapid proto house once you have a 3D CAD model, either as parts or a tool to make a batch. Thought about it myself, just haven't got a set to get scanned!
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Post by LordOxygen » Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:46 pm

Id be up for a pair if this gets off the ground.
Good luck with it.

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Post by markalp » Sat Jan 27, 2018 2:06 am

synthedup wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2018 12:57 pmHI all,

We now have a 3d printer in the office at work. Does anyone would like to lend me some top down side covers as a mould?

Then I can look at making some for members much cheaper then OEM.

Its only £14 for 1kg of plastic so should be cost effective :)
Maybe you should be asking for lots of photos and measurments from someone who has them, the printing isnt the difficult part there are lots of prototyping companies that produce things really cheaply these days once you have the detailed 3d files.
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