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Subject:	Re: Help needed: my custom beards
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.build.minifigs
Date:	Sat, 18 Sep 2004 05:47:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Isaac Yue wrote:

I don’t know if it was him or the process but the results I didn’t like very much.

Do you remember what the machine looked like?

Check out my Brickshelf folder for pictures of two I’ve used.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=durbien

The 3DSystems one makes resin parts, which might have been the ones you didn’t like. OTOH it holds detail really well, so maybe it was a different machine..

The Stratasys Dimension makes parts out of ABS, just like LEGO. The detail isn’t quite the same though - you can see some of the “steps” in the finished part. They could be sanded smooth, though. This is the machine I would check out if I were you.

The other “reasonably inexpensive” RP technology is ZCorp, as seen here:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=93366

These machines make parts faster and (relatively) cheaper, but they’re also messier and not-so-much-LEGO in finish quality. You could also sand and paint these parts to look good, though.

I can’t imagine how many beards you have to sell to pay for an injection mold! Is there really that much of a market for custom parts? Please (anyone) inform me - I’d really like to know!

Darrell

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		Re: Help needed: my custom beards
(...) Big Ben Bricks LLC seems to have done well enough with their first wheel product to introduce additional ones. (uninformed speculation as to how they are doing financially, not my business) Little Armory seems to be doing VERY well with their (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)

		Custom import tuner parts (was: Re: Help needed: my custom beards)
"Darrell Urbien" <durbien@mail.occ.cccd.edu> wrote in message news:I482qL.1K5K@lugnet.com... (...) Will you hurry up and put these into production already!!!! I'm an import tuner enthusiast (new newsgroups todd? [LOL]) I can't wait to see these in (...) (20 years ago, 18-Sep-04, to lugnet.parts.custom)

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		Re: Help needed: my custom beards
Hi Darrel, Thanks for the comments. About the links, first of all, I have recently discovered (or been told of) a few more non-English websites that I am going to add onto my existing link page hopefully sometimes this weekend. There is, for (...) (20 years ago, 17-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)

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