So, here’s an offer to the club that other clubs might salivate at.
As we now have 3 extremely good looking, sexy, witty members who own 3d printers, we’ve had a chat amongst ourselves regarding a new option for club members.
With 3d printing comes a huge opening for creativity in tanks, from printing overflows, to fish/anem guards, to mounting brackets, to well, whatever you might need.
Here’s how this might work….
A forum would be created, say, ‘3d Printed Parts and Requests’.
The forum would be moderated by the standard group of mods as well as anyone signed up as a provider (willing to make things for the club)
The member requesting a part would do their own research on the net to find info on the piece they need printed.
The member would open a new thread in the forum. No need to get creative, just name the thread the piece that you want (e.g. Nem Guard MP40).
In the thread, post any link you have found regarding the piece you want.
A 3d moderator will acknowledge your post. This lets both you and other 3d mods know that one of us has picked up the job.
The 3d mod will research your link. They may look for more viable options. They will post the cost to build the item. This cost will be minimal. It will be the cost of the filament used (usually under $1), plus the cost of time on the machine (tbd), plus cost of shipping.
Note that something like a pair of MP40 guards would cost you somewhere around the area of $6, plus shipping. A new nano overflow box maybe $5 plus shipping.
If you agree to the job, Paypal the money to the address provided via PM. Print will be completed and mailed out next day air or parcel for delivery within a week.
Misc...
We will provide a number of links in a stickie for popular builds, as well as links to a number of sites you can find some parts and ideas on.
We’re fantastic at printing established parts, but are all quite new at building parts from scratch. Scratch building will not be initially offered, but may become available based on our experience.
This will be a NJRC member service only.
So, what do you guys and gals think?
As we now have 3 extremely good looking, sexy, witty members who own 3d printers, we’ve had a chat amongst ourselves regarding a new option for club members.
With 3d printing comes a huge opening for creativity in tanks, from printing overflows, to fish/anem guards, to mounting brackets, to well, whatever you might need.
Here’s how this might work….
A forum would be created, say, ‘3d Printed Parts and Requests’.
The forum would be moderated by the standard group of mods as well as anyone signed up as a provider (willing to make things for the club)
The member requesting a part would do their own research on the net to find info on the piece they need printed.
The member would open a new thread in the forum. No need to get creative, just name the thread the piece that you want (e.g. Nem Guard MP40).
In the thread, post any link you have found regarding the piece you want.
A 3d moderator will acknowledge your post. This lets both you and other 3d mods know that one of us has picked up the job.
The 3d mod will research your link. They may look for more viable options. They will post the cost to build the item. This cost will be minimal. It will be the cost of the filament used (usually under $1), plus the cost of time on the machine (tbd), plus cost of shipping.
Note that something like a pair of MP40 guards would cost you somewhere around the area of $6, plus shipping. A new nano overflow box maybe $5 plus shipping.
If you agree to the job, Paypal the money to the address provided via PM. Print will be completed and mailed out next day air or parcel for delivery within a week.
Misc...
We will provide a number of links in a stickie for popular builds, as well as links to a number of sites you can find some parts and ideas on.
We’re fantastic at printing established parts, but are all quite new at building parts from scratch. Scratch building will not be initially offered, but may become available based on our experience.
This will be a NJRC member service only.
So, what do you guys and gals think?
