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Re: Has anyone considered molding track ourselves?
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lugnet.trains
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Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:51:54 GMT
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Clifton D. Chambers wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Thomas Holzer wrote:
> > In lugnet.trains, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> > > Has anyone ever considered extending this and doing some kind of molding of
> > > new track pieces ourselves? Has anyone ever done some investigation of how
> > > much it would cost for a mold for a larger radius curve or other new track
> > > shapes?
> > During the last year I got a lot of experiences in 3d printing. I think that
> > can be an alternative to molding since that is very costly.
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> > Take a look at my results for minifigs at:
> > http://www.shapeways.com/shops/MinifigCustomsIn3d
> >
> > With the same technique it should be possible to mold also new track pieces.
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> > Woody64
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> There has been a lot of DISCUSSION on molding new track, but what we need is an
> actual demonstration of a technique that works and produces a real product.
> Anyone producing good quality 9V LEGO compatible track will find that there is a
> waiting market.
I think someone needs to just go to some plastics manufacturers (molding,
3d printing, whatever) and say "this is what we want, how much would it
cost for a mold or design and how much would it cost per unit"
I think that if someone said "We can do a new radius of curve thats 100%
lego 9v compatible but it will cost $5000 for the mold and setup and 20c
per piece including the metal rails", we could find people willing to
donate towards the upfront costs IMO.
Same for other 9v parts (straigts in various sizes, points etc)
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| (...) The TechShop (www.techshop.ws) charnges members about $15 per in^3 of material consumed to do a 3D print in ABS. The output is a little "grainy", but it could probably make acceptable non-conductive track. Still have the conductive rail (...) (16 years ago, 9-Oct-09, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) There has been a lot of DISCUSSION on molding new track, but what we need is an actual demonstration of a technique that works and produces a real product. Anyone producing good quality 9V LEGO compatible track will find that there is a (...) (16 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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