How's she doing Pete? Tell her not to overdo it when she feels better.
Mechanically yes
Now it just wets the corners of the headliner when it rains
3D printing is fun for hobbies, but unless you have high end, stupendously expensive printers, the results will always be a bit of a guess for home gamers. One of the guys I worked with in Hounslow needed 11 attempts at making a bit of trim for his STI because the shrinkage was a little unpredictable. Which would've been fine, but each print was about 12 hours. The amount he spent on material, would've been cheaper to buy the part OEM.
I wish it was 10 minutes. The horn was smoking by the time I got back to itIn the life of Bix....
Have you ever had a crowd of angry marines surround your car because water got in and set the horn off at 8am for 10 minutes?
No? Me either....
@Bix
There are a lot of steps to get better more accurate results, but a lot of it comes down to buy a good printer or you'll regret it and buy one later anyway after wasting a lot of time and money.
Thanks Pete, my new carbon fibre heating mats arrived last week so I'm all prepared for the job.
I think the trouble is the 3d parts are the wrong plastic as well, and its been discussed before they are too brittle
Depends entirely on the filament you're using. PLA is fine for stuff that doesn't stress too much, doesn't take make heat etc. You then get in to ABS for more structural work and that has challenges (like maintaining temperature during print). 3d printing at home is good and will work most of the time - it's all trial and error.
Well I never got that far, unfortunately. For what it's worth, it seemed pretty darned solid when I was working on it. It COULD just be that whoever had them before didn't file them down so they slid easily within the rails. You CAN kinda sorta force them in, right out of the box... but it's a real tight fit and I wouldn't be surprised if someone who just rammed it in had them snap under the strain when the motor is pulling or pushing on it, after all, it's just that one little grooved bit where the cable attaches to that's taking all the strain.
Not expensive to buy either and they do look nice new.
Looks very tidy example does that.
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