3d printer on its way... Ideas?
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3d printer on its way... Ideas? ordered up a maker bot 2 last week yes it only uses PLA But i do think we can manage anything we want depending on how much post production we feel like doing.
How about a good old fashioned brainstorm
How about a good old fashioned brainstorm
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Well since we're brainstorming, centercaps? How would those be? I don't know how the makerbot works though so I don't know if you can scan things in or if you have to design it yourself but I can't imagine those would be too difficult.
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autodesk 123d is a new free way to try and scan things
it requires about 40-55 pictures though
im pretty adept with most autodesk software and sketchup and inventor after 6 years in architecture school
you guys can expect probably a new iteration of the headlight intake at some point that actually takes into consideration the math behind ram air
it requires about 40-55 pictures though
im pretty adept with most autodesk software and sketchup and inventor after 6 years in architecture school
you guys can expect probably a new iteration of the headlight intake at some point that actually takes into consideration the math behind ram air
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This sounds great and all, but doesn't a 3D printer only construct using plastic? How durable is this plastic? Maybe I'm just missing something here.
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The idea is to just print the lower receiver since that is the only part that needs to be registered and then buy the rest of the gun. They work pretty well. Here is one in use https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...fGsXyA#t=1350s
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Gotcha. Well I assume if it was good enough for a gun it is probably durable enough for the TB. I would let someone else try it first though.
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Could be true, although the .223 round doesn't have a tremendous amount of recoil to it. I don't know what the vibrations and torque from the belt is on the power steering pump and how it would compare to the recoil of a .223 round. I guess it would all have to do with how it is engineered. The AR lower has a lot of bends in it which strengthens the material. LOL, like you said though, prolly best to let someone else try it first.
Could be true, although the .223 round doesn't have a tremendous amount of recoil to it. I don't know what the vibrations and torque from the belt is on the power steering pump and how it would compare to the recoil of a .223 round. I guess it would all have to do with how it is engineered. The AR lower has a lot of bends in it which strengthens the material. LOL, like you said though, prolly best to let someone else try it first.
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Yea, the throttle body adapt. makes sense. I'm not a plastic expert or anything, so I was just curious. It'd be pretty impressive if a plastic power steering pump bracket held up.
You know you could make bank if you printed of ls2 style flanges and necks so one could hack off the front of intake use machine screw or plastic weld the new flange off kind of like what tpis does
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the main problem you will soon find out with your machine is that there will not be much you can do in the form of repeatable tolerances, strong enough materials, good surface finish, and is pretty limited on size. Ive been doing CAD for the better part of 15+ years, was a solidworks support tech and have been a 3D printer tech for the last 5 years, so if you have any questions about what to be doing for this or that let me know and ill help you where I can.
