Once creators realise they can make great money from running a blog outside of youtube it'll become more common . Using Google drive to store files , use blogger as a free website structure untill a independent wordpress framewoork is needed , with a user base building a community with forums etc , then run Google adverts as a revenue resource with a intrigated webstore selling printers etc . Everyone's happy ..... they make a residual income and users get a free files , support , while watching the creators video for instructions while sharing ideas on the forums giving ideas for future videos 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Accessible? you can buy scanners from cheap to expensive everywhere, 3d printers can be bought everywhere for cheap incl. materials. you just need to put your time and or efford in it... yes molding might be done by someone else, sometimes its cheaper to let someone else do it than investing yourself in it. but everything can be done.
first time watching a video of yours, your footage IRL seems to be quite well managed, but the switch to PC recording and your awful peaking microphone was horrendous
I would REALLY like to see very detailled info about the cutting you did in Cura and the 3D printing of bumpers or other large automotive interior and exterior parts.
Really nice job, my best friend had 2 sti back in 2003 same colour, he loved that car, he sadly passed this year, he would have loved to see what you did here, amazing great work from both of you.
Don't be confused. This is not simple or cheap. That 3d scanner he used is $30k. Who knows how much having multiple designers submitting 3d model designs would cost...this is not something you could get on fiver. I have been working in CAD for 20 years, it is not simple. That 3d printer is $16k.... Then it is ran for days to print all the parts of that huge bumper. probably a couple hundred $ in filament alone. Then the time to assemble the 3d print, gluing it all together symmetrically while making sure it still fits the car correctly. Sanding and smoothing the print to get it ready for the mold making. Who knows how much it would cost to have a custom fiberglass mold made. Then the cost of painting it. Yes you can do all this yourself. But this is deep into the manufacturing world with tons of experience and expensive tools divided between all these trades. This is how a business would do it knowing that they would be selling multiple bumpers. For a first time DIY it is not happening, 100% fail at one or every single step in this process. Trust me I have done it many times. But if you want to get into this, keep trying, you will learn from those failures....or hopefully you have some deep pockets and can pay others to do it for you...and remain ignorant. I am actually in the process of 3d modeling my bumper in fusion 360, only needing to print the top portion 54"x9". Might be close to $1000 to have a professional company like Xometry print out of ASA. I had a $700 Creality CR10 S5 3d printer I bought 4 years ago, terrible at printing ABS / ASA. No you do not want a cheapo 3d printer like that to do this. It needs to be enclosed to print ABS so the large print does not cool at different temperatures and warp and pop off the bed. Cheap printers only work with PLA which is terrible for most car parts. PLA has a glass transition temperature of 130 degrees F. Being in the sun things get too hot and your print will turn into a floppy noodle. Or you can make a carbon fiber PLA carbon fiber sandwich like the guys who is 3d printing the Lamborghini is doing. A modern least expensive printer that could get ABS / ASA done is a Bambu Lab but it has a 10" cube build size. Xometry uses $150,000 Stratasys Fortus machines for FDM 3d printing that have a 24" x36" x36" build volume...at least that is the info I could find.
Cheap printers can print the same filaments for the most part as expensive printers. The main difference between cheap ones like the ender 3, and more expensive ones like bambulabs, is ease of use and speed. An ender 3 can print all of the same things and at the same quality a p1s can if you know what you're doing.
Great video guys! Super informative , I love that you brought us along for the entire process. Definitely would love to see more content like this in the future!!
This is a good attempt to show the process, however, it is a tad crude. You already have 3D printers, CNC molds are just a slightly more rigid and precise machine away. Good for the hobbyist, but as a machinist, this is a tad cringy 😂 Look into Easy Composites.
Hey Big Duck Club...please please for the love of your health and your employees, as well as your clients', please figure out some dust containment, and fume mitigation. You want to live a long time making cool parts. It can be done on a budget.
maybe there's some way to remove these from the screen, but at 21:36 youtube puts up two video thumbnails that basically cover the car right at the point where you are showing what it looks like.
Very nice work. I just started playing with 3D printing on a very small scale with a Prusa MK3S+ desktop. This is such a a great technology and will keep older cars on the road. Not to mention the options for customization and imagination.
You would make a lot of money if you 3d printed those extension rubber bumpers some of those old classic land yachts had. I forgot the the terminology to give you the proper name for them but I hear they're a nightmare & expensive to replace.
So you could of cut your original bumper or changed the pipework but did this instead? OK, this is what is wrong with the world these days. Cool Concept but this isn't how you solve problems in a cost affective manner
Its 10 to 100x more expensive to take the 3d printed part, do a glass negative mold, then another glass mold, finish, paint etc. Wait till car folks figure out you can just add CF reenforcement to a 3d print, bondo, paint it, and there you go.
Very cool! My only feedback is that for the final reveal, the part we've all been waiting for, it's obscured by the channel logo and large thumbnails for video recommendations. May want to rethink that bit.
Great breakdown, I was gonna do a process video for how I 3d print my parts but now I can just link people to this video :) Was thinking about upgrading to a modix for aero parts and this really helped show how well it can work for large parts.
Awesome video covering the process from tip to tail. It's a lot of hard work, but the results are quite rewarding. Do you have any future plans to show how you use Blender as part of your reverse engineering CAD workflow? Thanks for sharing! 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for mentioning this. I see alot of people in the comments who think they are going to drop $150 on a printer and just whip one of these out over a weekend.
Cool video, but i notice alot of repeatability in the editing, for example around 09:00 you explained 3 times in a row that you're taking the bumper to your partner bigduckclub, while 1 time would have been sufficient. Same thing happened in the intro, where the problem has been explained twice in a row.
Hi there. What Wax or PVA did you use to have a so easy demould process? Seems very smooth to demould it. Or is it because or the multiple piece mould construction?
Very nice! I remember years ago I wanted to get into the automotive scene doing the same thing. Your video rekindled that fire that I have for automotive design and rapid prototyping!! I still redesign cars so why not bring them to life?!
Do you know if they sell their molds? Like if I made my own bumper would they sell me their molds love it? How big of a part candy mold? Can they make a full car body?? Do you know any designers that like muscle cars? I'm trying to put all the favorite things I like about muscle cars into a single car.
Very great work, sad to see but I believe Jesus is very important to the business. Best they get him some good respiratory equipment so he can work for a long time!
very nice idea and execution on the actual part, but the videography is a bit disappointing, no side by side before after comparison shots? i am not a car guy, i cant even tell there is a difference, also the paint matching deserves more coverage
Many many thanks for this and the previous video showing the scanning process. Definitely following now. Thanks for sharing the knowledge and sharing your passions.
for one off custom parts, the tooling of injection moulded plastic is much more expensive. Fibre glass is more cost effective for low production volumes
amazing video.....such a cool thing that we can now vision a change to our car and just make it happen instead of being at the merci of what ever the companies like. Too bad the color didn't match.
I have had a delta printer for a long time. I just ordered a scanner and new printer, 17" x 17" x 17". I'm working on a RGBW cluster and dash light conversion and dash re-layout that is begging for some scanning action. Hoping I don't need a new computer though.
