Rapid Prototyping Race Car Parts
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I've been doing a lot of looking at 3d printing lately. I think the technology is really cool. There is a place down the road where I can have items printed up as long as I pay for the materials. I haven't gotten serious enough to see what kind of materials are available or what kind of resolution their printer will get but when I found out it got my mind reeling.
My thinking though is more along the lines of it would be cool to take an interior piece have some one create a model with some slight modifications and print it out so that it would snap into place just like a stock piece would. Mostly just add a pocket for crap where I'd like one. Hell make a custom badge or anything really. Just something small that I could say is all mine. I'd have to find someone that could make it I just don't have the technical skills.
My thinking though is more along the lines of it would be cool to take an interior piece have some one create a model with some slight modifications and print it out so that it would snap into place just like a stock piece would. Mostly just add a pocket for crap where I'd like one. Hell make a custom badge or anything really. Just something small that I could say is all mine. I'd have to find someone that could make it I just don't have the technical skills.
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I've been doing a lot of looking at 3d printing lately. I think the technology is really cool. There is a place down the road where I can have items printed up as long as I pay for the materials. I haven't gotten serious enough to see what kind of materials are available or what kind of resolution their printer will get but when I found out it got my mind reeling.
My thinking though is more along the lines of it would be cool to take an interior piece have some one create a model with some slight modifications and print it out so that it would snap into place just like a stock piece would. Mostly just add a pocket for crap where I'd like one. Hell make a custom badge or anything really. Just something small that I could say is all mine. I'd have to find someone that could make it I just don't have the technical skills.
My thinking though is more along the lines of it would be cool to take an interior piece have some one create a model with some slight modifications and print it out so that it would snap into place just like a stock piece would. Mostly just add a pocket for crap where I'd like one. Hell make a custom badge or anything really. Just something small that I could say is all mine. I'd have to find someone that could make it I just don't have the technical skills.
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Guys, if enough people want a set, here is what we can do. I don't own a machine personally and I can't use company machines to produce my own products to sell (obviously). I might be able to pay a parts service bureau to print a few sets and pass them on at cost for "beta testing". The final products would be made out of carbon fiber..... without owning a machine it would be too expensive to pay a service bureau to make them to sell.
It would take time and development, so not an instant thing. If you are in PM me so I can gauge if there is enough people to make it worth while. I'm estimating $600 for a set if it was to happen.
It would take time and development, so not an instant thing. If you are in PM me so I can gauge if there is enough people to make it worth while. I'm estimating $600 for a set if it was to happen.
Congrats Matey!!
This is great. My last job had a 3D printer and I did tons of stuff with it but it was a pretty small one that would only accomodate about 10"x10"x8" if I recall. Let us know if you can push these through for 'beta' testing. As a fellow road racer I would be interested as well.
Cool stuff, I've got a Fortus900 and two Uprints I work with daily...I've made a few little things here and there for myself and a few other car guy employees, but nothing that well designed.
Wow, a Stratasys guy; cool. I'm always see your stuff at the shows and magazines. I'm an engineer at Switchcraft in Chicago. We've been pushing for some rapid prototyper for a while and looked into your machines. Great to see this application. I guess we'll just have to start pushing harder.
wow, and i thought making a soap dish and truck rim in high school on autodesk inventor was cool. lol. I cant wait to finish and have my mechanical engineering degree, being a production analyst in a PITA!! Our 3D printer in high school only did 12"x12"x12" using ABS plastic with support.
On the side of work right now im actually working on constructing a peeling machine for work. Probably will be another month or so though before its done designing.
On the side of work right now im actually working on constructing a peeling machine for work. Probably will be another month or so though before its done designing.
VIR is coming up
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Printing Parts
Hi, I've been making ducts like the long ones (I call them Intermediate because they're in between the nose and the backing plate) for Subaru's for a few years now. I've been testing a new concept that takes a lot of the complexity out of the cooling tract and replaces good old passive momentum with electronics. The side benefit is less drag with a small decrease in undercar pressure as the fans grab the air and spit it out the wheels.
