Author Topic: 3D pingfuckit printing service  (Read 645 times)

HTFB

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3D pingfuckit printing service
« on: 16 February, 2022, 10:21:02 am »
Not actually a bike pingfuckit, but the small widgety bit that holds the vanes of our rather posh vertical blinds onto the rail. The manufacturers have discontinued the product line and current stock has a different design, presumably to eliminate the fragile neck that has started failing for us. And they don't have any of the old part left. It's about 25mm long and 6mm in diameter,

There must be people out there offering a CAD + printing service where they could look at an intact part and replicate it, exactly or functionally, in something with sufficient tensile strength to hold a big bit of washi paper and wood. And our budget would be commensurate with the cost of two new sets of picture-window blinds, so it ought to cover the labour needed.

Any recommendations, hive mind?
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Re: 3D pingfuckit printing service
« Reply #1 on: 16 February, 2022, 10:33:10 am »
Yes, there are people doing this. Most of the cost is in producing the 3D design.

My step daughter and partner are doing this. No idea of cost.
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: 3D pingfuckit printing service
« Reply #2 on: 16 February, 2022, 03:08:42 pm »
Not a recommendation specifically but there are (at least) two places doing this within half a mile of me. Again, no idea of cost, time, quality, materials used.
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