Subj : 3d printing
To : Ernest J Gainey Iii
From : Jamestyree
Date : Tue Sep 10 2019 02:16 pm
Re: 3d printing
By: Ernest J Gainey Iii to All on Sun Aug 11 2019 12:06 am
> Just curious if anyone is into 3d printing.
>
> Just obtained an Ender-3 from a woot.com special. Having a good time with
> it.
>
> Total newbie at it... but trying to get the hang of it. (Most prints come
> out great, only a few failed ones.)
Hello Ernest,
I have a Shapeoko 2 from Inventables.com. I have had it for a couple of years
but I don't use it very much any longer. My other hobby includes vintage
stereo systems, including reel to reel tape decks. I got one deck made by Akai
and after 30 years, the aluminum cams inside that were responsible for playing,
recording, FF/RW (everything was manual back then) had started to disintegrate.
I was able to recreate one that worked perfectly and shared it on
thingiverse.com. About a year after I had shared it, I was contacted by a
business in Montana USA that services and restores the reel to reel decks.
Aparently Akai decks were pleagued with the issue of poor castings and the cams
(there were 4 in each deck) would just crumble after 2-3 decades of use.
Anyway, I was commisioned by them to create the complete set of cams which took
a couple of weeks. Nobody makes them any longer and they were used in 15
different models. Collectors were starving for a new source for them. I am
happy to share that I made perfect models and sold the rights to them to the
folks that commisioned me. He's selling them for $75 a set (all four could fit
in the palm of your hand). He's happy, I was very well compensated and the
community is very pleased with them!
James
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