Lownslow
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14 hours ago, PHPaul said:
Details on that laser please?
MR Maker S4 30w
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a fiber laser cutter, engraves metal but can also make some thinner photoetch parts
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11 hours ago, Perspective Customs said:
I believe so.
they were its called the Barrister and i believe all 12 still exist
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2 hours ago, Perspective Customs said:
id be all over one of these or a Corvorado
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12 hours ago, Biggu said:
The other question I have is can you generate your own jobs like “free flight” in flight sim or do you have to go through the game jobs to get ahead ? Not that , thats a bad thing but I Do NOT want to be driving for some company in a Volvo truck ( not a fan ) I would like something more classic and is it hard to download and install new trucks. I saw an old school Kenworth that was super cool and would do that instead of a new Volvo. Or are we stuck with the included trucks until we can afford to buy one from ai jobs?
you have to do a few quick jobs, i did a few til i could afford a new Pete, the game has mods to bring in older trucks
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I was finally able to play after a year of waiting for parts to fix my wheel. i highly recommend getting the right hardware i have a 18sp usb shifter on the way because the paddles are restrictive
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Redoing my spray booth by sealing the wood in Kilz and adding a plexi door and making a consistent size filter box.
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Considering they recently got bought out by vulture capitalists im not surprised to see a decline in product quality and working conditions
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52 minutes ago, rattle can man said:
might I ask where you got the desk top organizer?
i designed and 3d printed it
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Too many hobbies and distractions were causing the pileups, the folding tables were showing their age and warping and in general it wasn't comfortable anymore so i took 800$ and invested in my room. I basically took everything out of the room and moved it into the garage and decided to throw half of it out. Started with half empty supplies, then redundant stuff, then the hobbies i no longer had interest in(custom hot wheels). The 3d printer area was a bigger mess basically cut it down to two printers and put the other two in the garage till i decide to get rid of them. The change made a difference just waiting on lighting and another storage cart and a nice painting to fill the wall by the bench.
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Gundams are popular here too, i build gundam from time to time and always tell my friends to build those first before tackling cars. Gundams are beginner friendly, affordable, and most dont need paint. Theres gundams for all skills and budgets and a high amount of variants based on which lore youre into. As much as i love model cars im also a realistic person when it comes to recommending them over model car or traditional "glue" kits
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23.5 wide, 25 radius. Heavy equipment tires get goofy because its international
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punched out some steering wheels, custom LA Wire wheel/and Ribbon wheel
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the boomer cars are just too expensive most of them cost as much as a house i used to be after those cars not so much anymore since im getting into home remodelling and all i want is a carbon Fiber countertop
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15 minutes ago, atomicholiday said:
Do you have to do any clean up to the files before printing?
I’m curious to see how it looks coming off the printer too.
I use scans to make new parts, cloning kit parts was never part of the plan. I clean them up enough to make it easier to develop a new chassis so that the car is completely low when assembled
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testing the new scanner its much easier to do whole chassis now
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Bought a new scanner this one does slightly bigger jobs like 1/10 RC
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Are there any early 1920-30s mopar kits only see ford and chevy and closest early car i can find is the GB imperial.
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i hit a wall with the scanner today that i had to buy a new scanner to complete the project. i still plan on using my detail scanner for other projects.
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Yeah Maria is the reason why most of my family has settled stateside from PR they got hit pretty hard, we figure by 2040 we wont have much prescence there other than real estate
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Cults is pretty effective at removing files because certain parameters can be looked up
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Possibly the worst kit i ever worked on even at the end i ran into a issue that i had to 3d print my way out of. Other than that i got a clean build out of it for my mom, engine bay is completely 3d printed, vert boot is sculpted from putty and the interior details were older 3d prints i had sitting in the flash drive. My mom wanted a dark green car so i went with Highland green over black. I wanted the wheels to be interesting so i went with custom firebird wheels in 26"
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made some 14x8 appliance wheels for my old school build
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20 hours ago, JollySipper said:
I absolutely love love love when oversized 'factory' wheels are used on a build......... Those big Firebird wheels really set that Pontiac off!
Thanks, the wheels were a recent change never planned on firebird wheels but i figured nobody had done them in scale or 1:1 so i went for it and really happy with the results
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The most expensive way to get cheap photoetch
in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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Decided to make a business decision for 2025 and got a fiber laser as a 3 kings gift to myself. I plan on making business cards and coasters as a business and on the free time make some model car parts. I ordered my stationary materials and while im waiting on that i decided to test various model making materials. So far the ruling from testing is; it doesnt cut styrene but will score it pretty well, it will not touch anything clear, and most definitely avoid Foams and Tape. The downside is smoke and smells and it was really bad when i tested cutting tape luckily my SO was very understanding about testing. Kerf is a thing with these machines and they average about .1mm across the board so about the tip of a hobby knife, keep that in mind with sizes most of what im making is decorative so im not fazed by it.
The upside it cuts metal, i highly recommend 20W or higher fiber laser the more powerful it is the faster you can cut metal, avoid thin gauge stainless and steel as it warps with the heat, I havent tried copper or brass. First material i successfully cut into a part was duct foil with the downside of burning tape smell and it was too flimsy so i double then triple layered till i had a useable parts but the smell was really bad. Second material i tried was an aluminum can, downside its shaped and the bed on my laser is aluminum, so i bought a cake pan and used magnets to hold the aluminum down. Downside it was dull and i believe it has a coating so it was a slight smell i temporarily fixed this by taping the duct foil to it and thats how i was able to produce the speaker deck trim piece and the dealer tag.
Thats pretty much where i am at, i ordered thin gauge aluminum and copper and hopefully after completing some jobs to pay off the machine ill get back to making parts. the cost of the machine was 1600$ i got it locally used with one hour of run time. The prices for these machines range from 900$ to 6000$ plus the cost of software and like 3d printers its a lot of work and wasted materials to get results.