3d Printing interior/exterior bits?

[irdave]

43 minutes ago, 02tom said:

The shift surround is pretty rare since many Frigiking were installed without any shift surround on the early cars

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Cursory glance is that it wouldn't be that difficult.  It doesn't need to be hollow underneath so 10 or 20% fill would make it really pretty easy...  Rectangular-ish, hold in the middle, fillet curve around the top.

 

Or Martin Cote will sell you his wood one for $100.

[Geoff Raynak]

while i love using my hammer in as many situations as possible ... it is NOT always the best (or right) tool for the job.

 

the shift surround is a great example.

sure ... it is a 'relatively' simple shape ... and looks to be design-able ... 

but the texture and pattern and general form are not great for 3D printing

the layering will be obvious once printed ... and it will be generally weaker in that large over hang area ...

maybe you could leather wrap it once printed ... to cover up the layers ... but at that point ... why not buy the set from Koogle?  they are vacuum formed with the correct surface texture ... and look 'correct' ... and way less expensive once the whole process is examined.

 

 

again ... the surround is printable (the hammer can be used) ... but it will definitely look 'printed'

 

that smaller plastic (nylon) bracket

bumper hole covers

radio knobs

decorative gaskets with undercuts  ...

... these are the perfect parts for 3d printing of today.

 

[fastricky]

I threw the shift surround out there vs the Koogle version (which is great) for those of us that have all the Frigiking items except for the surround... Unless Koogle sells just the surround which is to the same spec? 

[Spyke]

Those front bumper delete plugs are the bee's knees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[uai]

On 2/24/2018 at 3:50 PM, echappe said:

 

Part # 17 which is the white nylon window guide is NLA

 

 

BTS has them
https://www.bts-autoteile.de/index.php/de/shop/1502-2002-turbo2013-04-23-12-02-57/karosserie-ausstattung-zierteile2013-04-23-12-02-57/6454347-detail

 

[BrunoMozi]

Hi, new member here. Ive been searching and cant find anyone who has 3d printed the front side grills for a early 2002. Why is that? 

[saharabetty]

On 3/20/2019 at 12:25 PM, Geoff Raynak said:

i have been able to model/3d-print three different (NLA?) swan neck mirror gaskets in flex ...

 

i've sold a few here ... mostly out of good will (and the 2$ of profit went to my daughter ... since it is technically her 3d printer) ...

 

i'm for sure game to try and model/print more parts ...

 

cheers

geoff

 

 

Geoff, do you have any more of those swan neck mirror gaskets lying around?

 

[Geoff Raynak]

@saharabetty

i don't have any 'lying around' ...

but i do have the ability to print more?!

please look here ... and let me know what shape/brand you have

if you want one ... PM/DM me here and we can set up a transation

i think it was 15$ for one and 20$ for 2 (shipped)

 

LMK

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[TobyB]

23 hours ago, BrunoMozi said:

Hi, new member here. Ive been searching and cant find anyone who has 3d printed the front side grills for a early 2002. Why is that? 

 

...because printing anodized aluminum isn't as easy as it looks?

 

t

 

[BrunoMozi]

On 6/1/2020 at 6:33 PM, TobyB said:

...because printing anodized aluminum isn't as easy as it looks?

Was speaking about plastic duude. Who frikin talks about printing in alluminium

[Geoff Raynak]

@BrunoMozi

wellllll ..... @TobyB currently has 18,955 MORE posts than you ... so he has a bit of cred around here

 

and all the grills are aluminum ... 

 

is there just one section that you want plastic?

picture are free and easy ... and can explain a ton...

maybe that will help your question ... and chill the scene here a bit

 

thx!

 

[Tdh]

13 minutes ago, Geoff Raynak said:

@BrunoMozi

wellllll ..... @TobyB currently has 18,955 MORE posts than you ... so he has a bit of cred around here

 

 

 

 

X2 @BrunoMozi.  Toby was being playfully sacrastic, which is something he does....really well.  Another thing he does really well is give consistently solid advice about the BMW 2002.  Chill. 

[BrunoMozi]

34 minutes ago, Geoff Raynak said:

@BrunoMozi

wellllll ..... @TobyB currently has 18,955 MORE posts than you ... so he has a bit of cred around here

 

and all the grills are aluminum ... 

 

is there just one section that you want plastic?

picture are free and easy ... and can explain a ton...

maybe that will help your question ... and chill the scene here a bit

 

thx!

Yea i seen him posts on almost every topic. Thanks for cooling me down tho. Anyway basicaly i have a early model with a missing grill. But i dont like the look of the chrome grills or the price lol, like if i where to buy the oem grills i would paint them black anyway. So to me a plastic early model grill makes more sense coz itl probably not bend or dent and itl be black.

[TobyB]

2 hours ago, BrunoMozi said:

Was speaking about plastic duude. Who frikin talks about printing in alluminium

 

As they say around here, well, have a nice day, then.

 

t

[irdave]

On 5/31/2020 at 10:36 AM, BrunoMozi said:

Hi, new member here. Ive been searching and cant find anyone who has 3d printed the front side grills for a early 2002. Why is that? 

 

To answer the question, probably because you can still find them used.  And I don't think anyone wants to go through the hassle of making one in the software so that it can be printed when you can just find one on here to buy.  Printing it is usually the easy part, drawing it up is almost always time consuming.

 

And to be clear, if I had a metal printer...

Edited June 4, 2020 by irdave