21 Mar
2012
21 Mar
'12
2:26 a.m.
On Tuesday (03/20/2012 at 05:25PM -0400), Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Dave McGuire
<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Yes-- I learned some stuff today from a guy in our ID group. The 3D
printing he was familiar with would likely not have the precision we'd
need to generate the pins accurately or reliably-- meaning they would
probably be too fragile at that size.
He suggested instead having a mold made and then molding these with some
kind of mold process-- perhaps what you were suggesting with resins.
I didn't have the pieces with me so they couldn't offer material options
but I'll bring the pieces in and see what these guys think. We also
have another company in our building who do this kind of prototype work
all the time but there probably wouldn't be any "good buddy discount"
there.
Still investigating.
How many people would be interested in RL01/RL02 id plugs should we find
a way to have them made?
Chris
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Chris Elmquist
On 03/20/2012 04:40 PM, Richard wrote:
?I'll volunteer to test these if you have them made.
I was looking at the shape and especially the tines... I think it
would be a great thing to make with a 3D printer, but long, thin parts
tend to be fragile, especially when "drawn" on a fused filament
deposition printer "against the grain".
Making clones of these caps seems like an ideal application for 3D
printing so I am poking around with the mechanical and industrial
designers here to see if you could do that "economically".
If you get me a design file, I bet I could get you one printed for
gratis (or near gratis) as an experiment.