Show off your 3D printed parts

But you can also add auto bed leveling to a lot of printers for like $60

 

I would pick these up for my 2nd gen so fast if someone made them.

That is excellent work! Installed into a Chevy I take it?

 

I use a Robo R1. I think it was like $500 back when I bought it a couple years ago. I've printed personal stuff but am also working on a mount for bed rails that transfers the weight off the rail itself and onto the side of the bed. Should have a production unit shortly. Goal was so you can mount heavy things to your bed rails and not worry about bending them downwards with the heavy stuff mounted to them.

I also sell a "universal" GoPro mount here: www.komosport.com

 

Check your local library, university or find a makerspace to get the usebof a 3D printer. I have a Monoprice Ultimate($800.00) that works great when I can get it set up properly. Try different ones and research, research, research.

 

Have a Prusa MK3S (started out life as a MK3) with some mods and a mosquito hot end. Got tired of that stupid E3D hot end when I wanted to change nozzles. I do most of my 3D files through blender because I started off model design more focused on figurines and game avatars, I really need to get into Fusion 360 or something better for more mechanical part design. I’ve churned out a few simple remixes of things I have found on thingiverse and here for my truck. Probably will make myself one of those cup holder buckets at some point, I like that idea.

 

I know damn near nothing about 3D printers.

I have an idea. I'd like to use my experience in audio systems to improve the sound in Tacomas using the stock speaker front door location. Basically a box for the 6x9 to drastically improve bass response. I'd want to offer it to the public in a sealed version and a ported version. I briefly looked at the door when I changed my front speakers and there is definitely enough room for a box without any cutting. I'd tune the port of the ported version for a specific brand and model of speaker. I'd want it to be of a plug and play design with no cutting of the door required. A speaker box like this will make a subwoofer a non-necessary item for most listeners. I have built many sealed and ported speaker boxes out of fiberglass for the inside of doors and other difficult locations. I could determine all of the exact measurements required.

I did a quick drawing of what I'm thinking of just for a reference.

This is my lame drawing of a port (lol)

Like I wrote before, I know damn near nothing about 3D printers...
1. So how easy of a project is this for a 3D printer?
2. I would like someone with a 3D printer to guess how much the material would cost and I would like a guess as to how much time the printer would take to print the part. I'm guessing I'd want it to be about 3/8" thick everywhere but the surface that the speaker mounts to would be thicker.
3. Are 3D parts weaker than say a plastic part that was made in a mold? The sealed box version can not flex at all from the speaker moving in and out, the ported version wouldn't have that problem as there is very limited amount of pressure created within a ported box.
4. Is anyone with a decent 3D printer interested in assisting me in this project?
5. Is there some sort of scanning ability of a 3D printer so that if I make one in fiberglass it could be duplicated with a 3D printer or are all of the measurements manually entered into the printer? If the answer is yes it does scan parts: can the scan be changed to be have more even dimensions? The fiberglass box wouldn't be perfectly symmetrical and it's thickness wouldn't be perfectly uniform.

I really wouldn't care if the file for the boxes were shared between 3D printer owners as I don't think someone would "steal" the file and go out and buy a $1,000+ 3D printer just to make speaker boxes for their truck. I would want my part of the profit to be very minimal to discourage theft of the design. If the file is available to the public then it couldn't be stolen (LOL!).

I'm definitely open to suggestions/comments on this topic. Thank you!

 

1. If you got all the measurements it would be pretty easy to draw something like that up most likely. Size of it on a lot printer beds might be too large though.

2. Material cost probably wouldn't be terrible, it's around $20 for a kg of filament.

3. Molded are better in my experience than what most of us are using for filament. Doesn't mean a 3D part can't do the job here.

4. Probably not since I have limited personal time and I don't have a lot of interest in this project, sorry.

5. Good 3D scanning is expensive and home photogrammetry is hit or miss.

As for leaving it open source, just upload it to Thingiverse with a non commercial license, then people can use/share it, but you can shut them down if they try to sell here or on etsy/ebay type places.

 

Very informative, thank you!

 

Cool idea thinking of this option also. My gas light broke could mount in the bed but thieves will take it.

 

I'm using ender 3 and it's very good for my purposes(biggest project was snowshoes for kid), not much printed parts for Tacoma, but something is here: https://youtu.be/EFNW3SID-zA?t=407 (the full video is about fridge experiments)

 

Interested in a set, check your PM.

 

Just curious how you afford that printer?

 

I hope it's a work printer he can use for personal printing

 

Im guessing but I’m still jealous

 

Yup! I work at Avid Product Development (avidpd.com). We're a engineering contractor, with 3 MJF printers in house. 2x 4200 and 1x 5200 (with the BASF Ultrasint TPU). No 580 color, but we do quite a bit of cerakoting in house if that interests you.

If you have printing projects (prototyping or small production runs), send me a PM and we can chat!

 

I picked up an ender 3 pro, and added a direct drive conversion

 

Bringing this back to life hopefully. Got my wife a Ender 3 for her birthday. We immediately printed some upgrades for it and purchased a BLTouch ABL system. Once you get it dialed in, you can make all sorts of fun stuff. Printed items from a replacement wheelie bar for my RC truck to parts for my Tacoma and everything in between. Designed, printed, and currently using switch blanks for the center console, 120mm fan brackets made of ABS for the snugtop (ventilation baby!), and a multitude of other things. Check out my stuff on Thingiverse.

https://www.thingiverse.com/castmem/designs

-PyroTaco

 

No. According to this thread you shouldn't share your 3D print files and anyone who asks is apparently an asshole:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...arger-for-2nd-gen.668187/page-5#post-23488721

Also, are you using an enclosure to print ABS on your Ender3?

 

Those fan brackets are sweet. Well done. There's another 3d print thread in here somewhere, too, btw, with some other taco things to print.

 

I see both sides of it, I do some stuff and post it for free use (usually with a no commercial license) and when I am unhappy with something or want to do something else with it I may not share. People are free to profit off their works if they want to go that route without sharing with fellow makers.

This gets to be a much bigger issue when it isn't little cheap car parts. The war between free use and paid models gets really heated in higher end design like video games. There is a certain VR social platform where people like to rip and use a lot of people's work without license or fee.