Subj : 3d printing
To   : Ernest J Gainey Iii
From : Jamestyree
Date : Tue Sep 10 2019 14:16:53

  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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