Hey thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying the build series. The body kit is the 280YZ kit from Ztrix Cars with integrated headlight buckets. I'm using a Coffey style air dam for the front, also from Ztrix.
Hey thank you! Working a few hours a night it took about 2 weeks to get the CAD design together. I spent a lot of time experimenting with different ideas before settling on this general shape, then it took awhile to figure out a way that I could model it that didn't break the software haha. I probably had a dozen or so versions of the design by the end
Awesome work dude, that’s truly ingenious. Only thing I would of done different is cut your rising sun and complete profile of the piece, cut out your holes, dimple die them, stamp the Z, then take measurements of the material with the depressions already accounted for the final measurements, and then bend. I guess you didn’t have the option to with send cut send?
very cool I took 3d animation at Vancouver film school using Maya design software ,like to design dash parts for c4 corvettes, as they have too much of that cheap plastic panels and trim parts.anyhow vey good video
I've heard that annealing the panel would help. It would have to cool down completely before pressed though. I'm not sure how much softness "stays" shortly after it cools though
Really enjoyed this. The mix of creative layout, fuzzy skin 3D printing, laser cutting, and Z-cars. Well done, Sir. Well done. Peace, from the RT diff mount dood.
Very impressive for plastic dies. 6061 can be pretty easily annealed for forming with an oxy-fuel torch. Lubrication is probably a good plan when trying to die press stuff like this.
Hi there ,just wondering where you got the bins ,ive been thinking of a project very similar, but didn't have much luck finding reasonably priced bins ,love your stuff bye the way
So I am going to send a message to Harbor Freight and ask why they don’t make assorted bins sized to their drawers. I am working on a project similar to this in which I removed the wheels to get it up high. We use a wooden deck. Then trimmed the bottom with wood so it matches the rest of the room.
I want to say that tha you may have missed economy of design so using the top 3 drawers. These may not given you the best bang for the buck. The HF toolbox’s may not be the cheapest way to go further some storage system have draw bins that are designed for the drawer some of these are just dividers that mate with slots around the drawer edge, yes that will not allow you carry off the whole bin to work out of. But that will put your bins in a location where they can become contaminated with abrasive dust, melted or dropped and cracked or broke. I figured you cutdown all of your bins and ordered extras but what was the minimum order. I will watch for updates on your system.
Hey thanks! I'm personally not a fan slotted dividers. I played with the idea of laser cutting slotted inserts for the drawers, but they don't have the same level of modularity and over time the hardware starts to migrate to neighboring slots. The more adjustability (unused slots) you add, the more likely everything is to move around. I do like being able to move bins around the drawers and change them out for other sizes that fit in the same grid space. Being able to move them around the shop has been really useful. I don't think they have a minimum order.. so far I'm really happy with everything!
Wouldn't it be easier to cut out rectangles that fill the tops of the tool boxes and then fit the countertop on top of them? Also the bins could be done by getting a flat plate of steel and a good neodymium magnet in the bin n sliding past the table saw the same or even the chop saw
So far it's worked out really well! I had gotten injured shortly after this video and then my property went through some pretty bad flooding damage that I've been having to deal with. I did have an IG post about the bench completed with photos if you were curious. I haven't gotten as much use out of the bench as I wanted with all my time away from the shop but what I've organized in it so far has been fantastic. I might do a follow-up down the road once I've put more miles on the bench to see how well the drawer slides etc have held up
I haven't gotten as much use out of the bench as I wanted with all my time away from the shop but what I've organized in it so far has been fantastic. I had gotten injured shortly after this video and then my property went through some pretty bad flooding damage that I've been having to deal with. I did have an IG post about the bench completed with photos if you were curious. I might do a follow-up down the road once I've put more miles on the bench to see how well the drawer slides etc have held up
To create a 3d print like that do you have to make it in small pieces and glue it together? Also how did you learn to to use the software to customize and make your design?
Yeah it's going to be broken up into several pieces and joined together. I'm actually finally printing it now for part 2 😅. I went to engineering school, but I mostly learned CAD from messing around with it. I find it really enjoyable to learn and practice
What would a rough cost be to buy a ls3 connect and cruise and to have all parts and labor be installed? I have a 1996 K1500 if it helps. There’s no definite answer as to what folks need to save up for in order to do this besides just the kit lol.
Hey that's a really tough one to answer. There's so many variables to what your end result could look like, and I don't really know what's off the shelf vs needing to be fabricated from scratch for a k1500.
Heyyy, a quick question. Do you think this would work in a hydraulic press. Im looking for dies but man the ones out there for industrial applications are expensive (atleast in the field panel board manufacturing). Do you think these 3d printer dies can be used? Like what's the limit to these. If its possible then man you have opened up a whole new can of new things to do. What do you think?
In my other press die video I did some pretty thick mild steel as well as stainless steel. It'd depend on the overall size of the panel and how deep you're trying to press your features. Also depends how many you're trying to get out of a set of dies as they'll wear much quicker than metal ones. Something like an electrical panel would probably be too large to do in a single press so I'd guess you'd need to do several smaller pieces to work your way along the panel. I haven't tried it, though!
Have had to deal with repairs following my home flooding and haven't been able to spend much time in the shop. Getting back to things as soon as I can!
Buckling (Euler) means you have too much material at the ends not less - also most dies and all tooling show wear in a bathtub fashion after early failure (infant mortality) and then good performance (average) and final end of life (death).
I haven't had a chance to see the Series 3's in person yet! I get why they changed the drawer arrangement but they look a little weird with the extra deep top drawer. Hopefully they're as good as the series 2 boxes. Have you gotten to check them out?
you did an awesome job! well thought out. i would have out wood on top of the tool boxes and then glued the butcher board to the wood so it remained in place that way rather than doing what you did, but it worked out.
Definitely would've been a bit simpler that way, I just liked how they look sitting flush to the boxes. Hopefully they don't split over time, it'll be more annoying for me if I need to replace them later on
