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I.m.o, and many others, one of the best best programs is Blender. It's free open source software and created by users.The down side is the learning curve. I've also heard that Google Sketchup is a good place to start.

I have been waiting for this as have many others. As some of you may be aware, I won't post anything on this post that isn't new, and therefore, real 3d printing growing as we speak. This one has just been released in the last short while. https://ru.aliexpress.com/item/wax-casting-UV-resin-LCD-light-curing-Photocurable-3d-printer-with-Raspberry-pi-SLA-3D-printer/32778078602.html?detailNewVersion=&categoryId=200003413. you'll need to translate from your browser. A non standalone version is available for $618. This printer gives a quality as good as Shape Ways best and in some cases better. It's as good as you can get to being plug and play. Why is this , besides cost, such a break through? Let me explain. Current ultra violet, or u.v. curred resin printers that produce high quality prints utilize a D.L.P projector or laser to cure the resin. L.E.D. diodes come in all ranges of the light scale, including u.v. Coupling an L.C.D. panel like the one on your computer and t.v. with L.E.D.u.v. diodes for a back light creates a 3d printer that is low in cost, energy efficient and low level maintenance. As an example, d.l.p printers cost $2k+ and up to $5k. If you D.I.Y it as I did, the projector alone will cost as much or more than this printer. One drawback to D.L.P. printing is that the light projected onto the printer build plate is not at the same intensity. This means that, even though you may have a build area of 5" X 3", only a portion, maybe half, is printable use. With L.E,D. light, the whole build area is printable.Here is a forum showing results from this printer. Much is talk, but work through to the actual results. There is more on the Google form if anyone is interested. As a p.s., compare this printer to that cheap, F.D.M, obsolete printer for a few hundred less, and in many cases,more money.

The best way to recreate this manifold is by creating a cad stl. file and 3d printing it. The result should be something like this duel quad 318 poly manifold I have recently completed for my 318 A engine.

The LaSalle short shaft was only used in the 50 Olds, no other years. The actual engine of choice was a souped up flat head. In a few instances a Caddy ambulance engine.

The reality is that the Olds/LaSalle setup would be much more of a benefit to a rum runner as the Olds was noted for its strong bottom end and the LaSalle for its strength. Drag racers like Stone, Woods and Cook used the the Olds for this very reason.

A Caddy or Olds is definitely the choice, but a LaSalle trans would be more a likely option over a Ford trans.

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This is old news Bill. Form labs has been around for a number of years. Laser 3d printing itself has been around since the 1980's. The new kid on the block is are the dlp printers that have numerous advantages over laser machines. Dlp printers will print layers at 20 microns. More important, they will print x/y axis as low as 50 microns. The dot of Form Labs Form 2 is 140 microns. What I print is done with a dlp printer. Those nice AFB carbs are printer on a dlp printer. No contest. The advantages of dlp over laser are too numerous to mention.

O.K. O.K. My opinion, and it has a lot of validity to it. Harry is on a Mac, I'm on Linux. Windoz does an upgrade, applications need to make adjustments. Programmers work days and thus PB has to shut down to make adjustments. Some other applications may shut down in non high traffic hours. BTW, I have zero problems with PB. Nor do I have to run all these programs to detect virus and trojan invasion. Linus is the desktop version of Unix and Mac is a version of Unix.

Finally Mike, you have an answer to your original post. Thank you Joseph for chiming in. Joseph is the blue print of how it should be done. He mastered resin casting, then cad drawing. Lastly, he purchased and learned how to use a high res 3d printer. All these skills, he has mastered. The first step to 3d printing is mastering a cad software. Then you can approach the steps Mark brought up in his post. It certainly has a place in our hobby for those who choose to utilize it.

They are closed Friday 10/7 because all of the Florida counties located in Mathews path have curfews. Their located within a half hour drive to the north of me. We're both in Volusia county and have a curfew starting at midnight tonight and ending at 7 a.m. Saturday. The heaviest brunt of the storm is due to hit my area around noon Friday.

Check out number 10 on this list of 3d printed cars. https://all3dp.com/3d-printed-car/

O.K. Let's talk about hijack. The above post on down to this one is concerning that topic. Your post has nothing to do with this thread and actually could be interpreted as a negative. Bill, your post was good as it attempted to dilute the post above it. Skip, always being Skip. It's just you. Harry, always the diplomat. Landman, way off base. Your computer has virus. Your problem. Doesn't have anything to do with helping Harry. Bob, you just can't help yourself, can you. This is a very serious thread and if you haven't experienced this or any other cancers first hand, or second hand as I have, than you can't even imagine what Harry is going through. .

good luck finding something you can clear.

There are a number of posts where Harry shows his results. Right now, this is the only one I can find. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/114814-alclad-chrome-arrrrgghhh/

Hobby Town carries it.

Here's a screen shot of the scan

Trolling? Why would I be trolling. What I have told you is absolutely true. To what end would I make it up?

I serf off and on all day long and use it to pay bills, etc. Let me add that my scanner program has informed me that I have 7 trojans in my firefox browser.

Ok you computer guys. I don't per say use any anti virus software to counter any virus or or any other malware getting on my os. I do have a program that will scan my drive and report of any possible threats in a file. I check the file every so often and remove anything I feel may harm my computer. Am I in trouble? Should I be doing something more?

When I look for a file to use all or part for a 3d printing project,I check to see if the whole is a sum of it's parts. This is how our models are made. Here's an example using a 1937 Buick blender file. The whole: The parts: This enables me to assemble the parts into what I need to print and make a model. Usually the designer will specify whether or not the file was created this way. If you are going to make a model of it to sell, you need to create parts to assemble. Otherwise, It's not a model. The more parts, the higher the cost to produce. If you make it in a scale that there are already some parts for, you eliminate costs. Then there is the demand for you model. The larger it is and the fewer available parts, the lower the demand.

Exactly right Bill. Tom's post is flawed in that he states that the 3d files need to be created by professionals. As 3d printing has grown, so has the numbers of self taught 3d cad file creators. It's not some kind of rocket science. It's simply a computer program that is used to create the file through a series of key stroke manipulations. It's taking the time to learn the one's you need. You don't need to lean the whole cad program to create simple parts. There is so much help provided to those who want to use Blender, that you can find how to do a function in a matter of minutes. There are You Tube videos that teach you how to set up background images and what keys stokes are needed create 3d car files. There's even a Blender for dummies book free on line. And speaking of free, Blender is free, plus it is one of the cad programs mentioned by SafeWay. As 3d printers advance and come down in price, more people will become involved. Desktop 3d scanners are making advancement as well. Yes, you still need to know how to repair a scan to print it, but that's not rocket science either.

The pineapple I posted above was printed on a Solus desktop 3d printer that also printed this figure. It is a DLP machine that uses a dlp projector to cure uv resin into a finished product. This is the same technology I use to create my prints. Yes, the technology to print in such fine setting that the detail is superb and lines disappear is here. Expensive? Not really. And, there are many more machines that will give you a decent result at prices down to 1k. If you are going to do any amount of printing, purchasing may be a good move. Check out their website and look at the gallery of 3d prints this machine produced. I can give you many more examples of dlp and sla machines costing thousands less than Shapeway machines and, in some cases, a better print. http://www.junction3d.com/