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Post by XJSman89 on Mar 2, 2015 15:58:33 GMT -6
Hello everyone! I made some parts for my Jag the other day and installed them this afternoon and wanted to share. It has been too cold recently for me to go out in the freezing garage and work on my wiring harness, but I have made some progress on my XJS. The sun visor clips were both broken, and it bothered me to have the visors hanging down all the time. I was bored the other day so instead of buying a set, I made my own!     I had pieces of an old one that were still in the car, so I modeled them in SolidWorks (my CAD program) and printed them on the 3D printer that I run at work. It wasn't until after I printed them that I realized you can buy a set pretty cheaply, but I had more fun doing it this way anyway.  Just thought I would share! Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 using ProBoards |
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Post by Marc on Mar 2, 2015 18:52:48 GMT -6
Good work!
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Post by plato442 on Mar 2, 2015 18:55:54 GMT -6
What's the fun of buying some when you can make them with a 3D printer! That's pretty cool
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Post by sall on Mar 2, 2015 19:16:27 GMT -6
Sweet!
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Post by tigger on Mar 2, 2015 21:18:18 GMT -6
Haha, sweet indeed!
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Post by lkraft92 on Mar 2, 2015 23:34:12 GMT -6
Nice. I got a friend that has ultimaker 3d printer. he is working on upgrading to dual extruders and different motors for finer control. Plus, we have two dimension 3d printers in my department at school. i think im good on the 3d printing.
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Post by XJSman89 on Mar 3, 2015 8:29:29 GMT -6
Yeah a Dimension SST 1200es is what we have here. It's a great printer, I'm fortunate to have one so nice. We use it to make patterns for our foundry a lot.
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Post by timmefai on Mar 10, 2015 8:34:26 GMT -6
3D Printers are fun. I used to work at Stratasys here in Minnesota where they make the Dimension printers. We use to print all kinds of crazy things.
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Post by guy48065 on Mar 10, 2015 10:02:41 GMT -6
I see. So instead of printing your butt to PAPER after the office party...
;-)
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Post by sall on Mar 10, 2015 10:19:43 GMT -6
^Haha!
Hey Collins, I'm not well versed in the 3D printing. I assume you could smooth out all the lines from the printing layers with a light brushing of Acetone/MEK? I guess it would depend on the material being used to print with.
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Post by timmefai on Mar 10, 2015 14:31:06 GMT -6
I see. So instead of printing your butt to PAPER after the office party... ;-) Well they do make 3D scanners... So in theory you can make a copy of whatever you want. Depends on how wild the company party gets.. 
BTW Nice final 500 you got there. What number is it? I have 296.
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Post by XJSman89 on Mar 10, 2015 21:06:07 GMT -6
Hey Collins, I'm not well versed in the 3D printing. I assume you could smooth out all the lines from the printing layers with a light brushing of Acetone/MEK? I guess it would depend on the material being used to print with. That's partially correct, though not in this application. I'll give you a quick run through! Some printers use ink and cure with a UV light, those respond more to chemicals. My printer is an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer that uses an ABS plastic. It uses a cartridge of material that is wound up, similar to a yard trimmer string. It then heats up the plastic to around 700deg F so that it is pliable and extrudes it out in .010" layers onto a heated bed. The ABS responds well to sanding, painting, gluing/bonding, etc but is more chemical resistant. The primary function of ABS (and, more specifically, the Dimension SST 1200 printer) is for form/fit/function prototyping rather than ultra-detail parts, hence the layers. UV printers are more accurate, but the parts are not nearly as strong. These parts are just temporary or I would have sanded them down. They only need to hold the visors up until I buy a matching color set. The car needs so many little things, I'm just going to make a list and buy it all at once instead of piecing it together. |
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Post by sall on Mar 11, 2015 6:50:54 GMT -6
I wasn't bashing the parts or anything they are cool. Just out of curiosity. I have used MEK several times to make an ABS cement if you will to repair ABS pieces. It's actually pretty popular in making custom bezels in the CarPC community. I did find a few videos just now about smoothing out with acetone vapor. Here is one.
Give it a try on something?!
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Post by XJSman89 on Mar 12, 2015 16:23:08 GMT -6
That definitely is cool. I looked through the comments and description, and can't find what printer he was using. That looks more detailed than the printer we've got even, i'm not sure it would work as well with the layer separation being what it is on mine. He looks a lot closer to a smoother model to start out with. It's worth giving it a try though, I think! He tried this on ABS and we actually use P-430 ABS Plus, but the chemical properties are similar enough that it shouldn't matter.
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