Texas_3D_Customs

HMM... But to be honest they really look a lot different to me

But for the life of me I can't seem to find a picture of that engine not in a car to do those superchargers would require at least that I know what in the world drives them I know it's a belt but beyond that I mean I'm going to want it to be at least somewhat right looking

So I could probably do that intake manifold Not sure I'm going to do those weird covers on the carbs at least not the hoses, but I will not be selling the intake manifold separately it would come with my 427 Cobra engine

Well about $20-30k worth of equipment, $700-1000/month electric bills because you dont want that many printers in your house and keeping a garage at 23C is really hard in Texas, over $30K a year in shipping labels, I don't even want to know how much I spend in resin but well over a thousand a month. It really is a different gig than just printing things for yourself. Taxes are a nightmare as well. When I was just hobby printing and the occasional sale it was much much different, and somehow it just kept growing until I was exiled to the garage. I regularly put in 12 hour days work a bit on the weekends, and vacation which is a week and a half away is stressful because unlike a paid job I wont get paid vacation. You deal with a lot of different types of people some are very cool some not so much. I have made a good deal of friends and likewise I have made some not friends, see above. It really comes down to I really enjoy doing this, and while its been a pay decrease its been a lifestyle increase. Now the money is all subjective, if you were say a gas station attendant then I am sure you would say the pay is great, but coming from my old career its not. Money is not everything in life and I am getting towards the later quarter of my working career, and as such I have already paid off a lot and was fortunate to not have to buy my house at current prices. It's not for everyone and due to my past career this was not a huge leap as I did a lot of CAD as an engineer, also helps that I am a 1:1 gearhead. Would I recommend it for everyone, absolutely not, but it does have potential but also competition is getting fierce.

Man I didn't realize those weren't real tires and wheels, bravo

I will stop I am just adding to the issue

I mean if I were to sell my files on Cults3D which is what I think he was talking about. I wouldn't sell my files for nearly what an engine costs, much less what others are selling "Engine" Files for. Dont get me wrong there are some good ones out there, but most of the high detail super accurate files are much much more than even $50. The main issue I would have is we all know that people share files they buy on Cults3D and furthermore you only get that charge one time per person even if they dont share. Take for example Scale Model Auto Works Slant 6, he charges ~$13 for the file, and he has sold 24 which comes out to $323. Sorry the time to design a detailed engine like my Slant 6 my Hemi 426 my LS line... to me is worth way more than even $500. So the problem with Shapeways and I will say I am not a fan of the system, but its an avenue for creators to use so thats their decision, the file cost is all the creator gets, shapeways is getting the lions share if they don't charge a high rate for the file. I personally think that there are better options like licensing your designs to people like me with a royalty as as you say the prices are too high on SW. But you can set the price whatever you want to make per sale on SW. I have reached out to people that sell on SW and most of the time they are not keen to the idea of licensing with me, but that is there decision.

Absolutely, I sell my engines with a transmission for $25 shipped, I wouldnt even consider selling my files for anywhere close to that. But my engines are not the run of the mill Cults3D designs

Yes up near Denton and yes I have an eBay store as well as my website.

I will wait for someone other than you to weigh in on this, we can go back and forth and you will not listen to my reasons and while I admit I lost your business and I never made absolute statements that is all you.

Yep you are right, but for the business I lost, you and perhaps a few others, there are a lot of people who will see that I am pretty straight up and I will accept that as representing my business. I would even go as far as to say people see me defending makers like Ron Olsen who choose to go the shapeways path even though it would be very easy for me to jump on your bandwagon, as a good thing. I am not the one bashing other peoples business and quite the opposite am defending the decision. You sir are the one who started a whole thread on putting down people and telling them how to run their business and then you bring it here when people point out a source for parts. Tell me I am wrong.

and I quote "Or I'll take some time and learn how to print. It can't be that hard. I just haven't taken the time to learn it." sorry my sarcasm was too much to handle.

Yeah 3D printing quality parts is super simple hardly an inconvenience.

This was never the intent of selling the tire separately I don't make money on the tires I make money on the wheels It's just one of those things rubber resin is expensive but when you buy nothing but wheels I make money when you buy nothing but tires I make no money. And while it might seem like I'm being greedy it is a business and it is how I feed my family. The whole intent was to give a selection of tires for my wheels and not pigeonhole a wheel into a certain tire.

That was just a run on words there cuz you said spring and spring is gone I didn't mean you weren't going to purchase I meant it was just a joke You did buy two of those I hope you understand you didn't get any transmissions though

It's already Summer though

Here's my take on that One it's not going to be real easy to print if you want it to be accurate those fins are not impossible and I know I can do it I print the clutch fins for a 6BT fan, but the other part is the rare part if they're rare in real life something tells me it's going to be rare and model life to sell It's really not that hard of a design to be honest I mean it's a whole bunch of repeating patterns. But still putting the time and a designing something like that to sell one or two sets maybe make a dollar or two per pair, If I only sell one set of four wheels it's a lot of time spent for a few dollars

I am being realistic, I will be gone the first week in August, nothing goes as planned the first go round, but there are several parts that are the same so it comes down to mainly the body and grill, I am hoping by September 1 perhaps sooner but not much. Plus I assume we are doing a day cab and I don't want to play that game again of releasing one before the other as I know people bought the sleeper then were less than happy when I released the day cab later. I even saw a sleeper for sale on FB due to this.

I do have that, but at the moment I am not selling it separately, that may or may not change. I will be very honest I kinda am tired of the transmission only orders because I am not in the business of shining up others engines, and I now have evidence thats exactly what is going on. Now I get it you dont want my engine but you want the transmission and for that reason I instituted a minimum order as a single $3 part is a net loss after fees and supplies, no the resin doesn't change but the amount of packing and other supplies proportionally goes way up. I may start selling the 10R80 separately as a SBF transmission along with the TR-6060

I am going to finish by saying I try to keep my prices reasonable and I am not this big of a Jerk, but you shouldn't go around telling people how to run the business.

When you start a statement with don't take offense but you know that what you're saying but hey don't take offense to this but you have no idea what you're talking about I don't think you really fully understand CAD but but I mean don't take offense to it. Look I don't support the shapeways thing but I can charge for my file over and over and over again You see when you have an exclusive file you can put that premium on it and tell me that a lot of my files are not exclusive to me. So yeah I can continue to charge for my exclusive stuff over and over and over again and factoring in my time in there do you think Coke is only charging you for the sugar flavors and carbonation No they're charging you for what they made their formula if you will. You see most people here are against what you're saying because you're wrong but don't take offense to that.

Yeah there's free versions of programs and there are straight up free programs. But I can tell you that the free version of let's say Fusion 360 is limited not only that but you are not supposed to use it for profit if you're on the free version. Some of the totally free CAD programs they're garbage for someone who's wanting to do very extensive modeling but when you say the cost of the program is free so it's really not even about how much the program costs it's about the time you have to put into it do you think that honestly that 426 Hemi I made was like a 4-hour job?

So I'm going to say this shapeways is way overpriced especially for the quality they produce I'm not going to argue that What I am arguing is your logic about how much the designer is getting and I'm pretty sure I get it I mean if everybody in this conversation I think that I'm probably one of the most experienced people here as far as designing and selling. I like how you pulled in one of those items that was never intentional to be sold as an individual item Yes I sell a transmission for $3 that was never the intent but that's what people like to do now, but a whole engine cost $25 with a transmission and I think this is pretty obvious but even though I use better resin than most people I'm still making a profit off of it and how much I choose that's my business how much you pay your business if you don't like the prices on shapeways don't buy from them. The people who live there don't want to print but they also don't want to license off their designs Ron Olson is a very good example I've asked him told him I'd pay him royalty whatever he's making on shapeways I'll match it and I'll get added into the price but he wouldn't go for it He wants to keep control of his designs and I understand that. But to tell people they shouldn't list their stuff on shapeways and should print it themselves You're basically telling someone how to run their business.

So no I don't have any front wheel drive transmissions at the moment I mean I actually have files for them but no I'm not making them right now and they will be on a Honda engine but to think you're going to pay someone $0.50 for a design I'm sorry that's unrealistic there are very few designs that are $0.50 for $0.50 I'll draw you a cylinder literally a cylinder nothing else maybe you don't think people's design time is worth that but if you were to offer me $5 for one of my engines I would just flat out laugh I'm not trying to be mean I'm trying to be realistic I don't sell my files anyway. But if you were to imply that my prices are too high at $25 for and engine with a transmission You're paying for both my design time My printing time my working time You're paying for all of that A lot of people don't seem to understand that when they buy an engine off me they are paying me for my designs.

You do realize that the people that are selling on shapeways is cuz they don't print them themselves they just design so having their own website kind of defeats the purpose who's going to print it