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Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by Reddy, Dec 10, 2019.

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  1. Jul 8, 2020 at 8:03 AM
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    I'm a little too sober, so I'm taking a break before performing some surgery. A little sneak preview though...

    20200708_161058[1].jpg
     
    2008taco, Jul 8, 2020
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  3. Jul 8, 2020 at 4:48 PM
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    I dig this a lot. How did you get the original measurements, 3d scanner?
     
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  4. Jul 8, 2020 at 5:07 PM
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    This thing is awesome!!!! I bet you could sell quite a few of those if you wanted to.
     
    TacoFergie, Jul 8, 2020
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    No, I reverse engineered it. I will probably get a 3d scanner eventually, but my printer has not been run through any big prints yet, so I can't justify it yet. I think scanners only use at the moment is to use as a base to essentially trace and model over. All that I have seen export as stl's, and those are almost impossible to convert to a good editable model.
     
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  6. Jul 8, 2020 at 5:09 PM
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    That's the eventual and hopeful plan. Just got to dial everything in first.
     
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  7. Jul 8, 2020 at 5:51 PM
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    Damn that was quick. There goes my weekend!

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  8. Jul 8, 2020 at 7:30 PM
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    So I did some cutting. Cut a little off the shifter guide to fit the coin holder. I'm going to switch the cup holder and radio charging bays to work with some of the clearances a little better and to avoid having to go too crazy cutting parts off the truck.


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    2008taco, Jul 8, 2020
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  9. Jul 8, 2020 at 7:37 PM
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    I would buy one
     
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  10. Jul 8, 2020 at 10:56 PM
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    That coin holder is awesome -- Toyota should have put one there! These seemed like a very common feature on cars in the 90s, but you never see coin holders now.

    It always irks me when I see wasted space in car interiors. These days, everybody wants soft-touch this and leather that... Fuck that. I want gigantic cup holders everywhere. Not enough space for cup holder there? Well dammit, give me a cubby, a coin organizer, or at least some shit that lights up!

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    They should really just let me design all the cars.



    ETA: Kudos for including pennies. Them's the best throwin' coins!
     
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  11. Jul 8, 2020 at 11:15 PM
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    I have (or used to have before covid) access to an incredibly nice laser scanner at work. 0.001" accuracy on almost any surface.

    It is incredibly powerful, but also generally a nightmare to use for reverse engineering. Sure, simple parts and features can be processed with its built-in software, e.g. cylinders, spheres, hole patterns... But for complex parts, I always had to write tons of processing scripts to crop down the data and perform fits on a feature-by-feature basis. So sure, I could scan a whole part in a few minutes, and get 10 gigabytes of STL data... But it would take several days of work to process that into an exact CAD design of the part.

    My go-to reverse engineering tool is actually a far-simpler (and less expensive) coordinate measuring machine.

    For the shifter console panel, I would take maybe 10 coordinate measurements along the top and bottom profiles and use them as spline anchors in CAD. Way easier than fitting a huge point cloud from a scanner!
     
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    They wouldn't let me play with the cmm at work... I took a picture of a contour gauge against a scale. Used it as a canvas to create a manual point cloud. I'm more interested in a scanner to get certain curves and to map open areas behind panels. As I get more confidence in my printer with larger parts I'll consider it more and more I'm sure.
     
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  13. Jul 9, 2020 at 10:15 PM
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    Fat Bob's lift kit, 30's on stock steelies, lunchbox locker in the rear, and a ton of other general mods and additions to help the utility of the truck for my particular uses.

    Check belt tightness. I have next to no shift
     
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  14. Jul 10, 2020 at 2:04 PM
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    Fat Bob's lift kit, 30's on stock steelies, lunchbox locker in the rear, and a ton of other general mods and additions to help the utility of the truck for my particular uses.
    PVA glue is good for stuff on the cheap. Look into Bed Weld or Vision Miner Nano Polymer and your lifting issues pretty much become non-existent.

    -PyroTaco
     
    PyroTaco, Jul 10, 2020
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    I switched to exclusively printing PETG on a glass bed. Much better adhesion, no enclosure, no fuss with glue and the final parts are stronger and more heat resistant than PLA.
     
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    Fat Bob's lift kit, 30's on stock steelies, lunchbox locker in the rear, and a ton of other general mods and additions to help the utility of the truck for my particular uses.
    PETG isn't too shabby. ABS is fun. NylonX or G is a hoot
     
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    When I first got my printer I was really wanting to mod it to print ABS because of my previous experience with PLA for truck projects. But after using PETG I have yet to add the slight heat resistance advantage of ABS.

    I am interested in Nylon so we’ll see what I get into. I think I’m going to mod my Ender5 Pro to have a bigger build plate. I want to increase it to 300mm square.
     
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  18. Jul 17, 2020 at 12:12 PM
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    I'm looking to increase my e5p's build surface too. I saw they make the ender-extender for the e3, but do they make something similar for the e5? Almost to convert it into a e5+.
     
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  19. Jul 17, 2020 at 2:02 PM
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    I have not seen a kit, but it doesn’t seem too hard to piece one together.
     
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    Fat Bob's lift kit, 30's on stock steelies, lunchbox locker in the rear, and a ton of other general mods and additions to help the utility of the truck for my particular uses.
    With it being extruded aluminum channel, I'd imagine it would just be a matter of sourcing that and a build plate. Drill a few hope and tap them, change a few settings, and bobs your uncle... Lol.

    -Pyrotaco
     
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