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3D Printing Projects - Truck parts and tools
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Today's little project. I started playing with a 3D scanner at the machine shop. This is an amazing tool, and should be for the price point. The goal is a 3D printed gauge cluster that holds aftermarket gauges and still works with the factory bezel. I still have that part to design.
Now that’s something you can grab onto the market with.
Except I am using a non-commercial license and don't plan to sell parts. I'm doing this for my own projects and to learn. It is also amazing that they designed these plastic parts in the 70s with no computers when you start to realize all the complex shapes going on.
So far, I have two of the gauge positions along with all of the mounting points mapped out. I do not expect the turn signals are really centered on the square openings and will need to play with that geometry for aftermarket gauges to fit.
Eh. I ever manage another Square we’ll talk.
That scanner produced very good results, nice work.
FYI, when I swapped my truck gauges in order to work with the Autometers I had to trim the back of the bezel to work with the 2 5/8 and 5" gauge sizes. I didn't 3D print anything, I just used a die grinder with the factory cluster housing and the older metal front plate.
Since I had to remove material from the back of the bezel, I also had to space the gauges out, I used PVC for that, I had to remove and install them multiple times to get the fit correct.
Perhaps I can the the pictures of what my final cluster and bezel looked like, it might help you in your process.
FYI, when I swapped my truck gauges in order to work with the Autometers I had to trim the back of the bezel to work with the 2 5/8 and 5" gauge sizes. I didn't 3D print anything, I just used a die grinder with the factory cluster housing and the older metal front plate.
Since I had to remove material from the back of the bezel, I also had to space the gauges out, I used PVC for that, I had to remove and install them multiple times to get the fit correct.
Perhaps I can the the pictures of what my final cluster and bezel looked like, it might help you in your process.
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Rather than fill your thread with images, I'll just post a link, the first post has several pictures that may be helpful to you. I had to space out all the small gauges. 2 1/16 was way too snall, and 2 5/8 was too big, so I had to make the 2 5/8 fit by moving them out where the bezel was larger. This was nearly 20 years ago now.
Autometer Gauge Install
Autometer Gauge Install
I suppose the goal here is to keep a factory looking dash, but with aftermarket gauges behind it. I wonder about the visibility in that configuration. Don't you end up with them kind of "double-recessed"? To go further, why not gut it to keep just the mounting points and the connector part. Then update the faceplate to match to aim the gauges up higher.
What's the plan for the wiring?
What's the plan for the wiring?
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That is pretty epic.
This is what it ends up like when complete.
The closer you get to the gauges in the dash, the more the bezel blocks the edges, you can see them better from the driver’s seat.
These days the cost of specialized gauges like Dakota Digital have come down, and the aftermarket gauges have gotten more expensive, so the Dakota Digital looks more appealing now.
Ugh, got another one I'm working to take down.
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It's bad even if it doesn't pass, the seed is planted. They'll end up with all electronics on cloud services w/ monthly fees for the pleasure of using anything from 3d printers to your toaster.
Thats kinda what all of these AI datacenters are all about.
In the early days of computing it was a mainframe <=> terminal so the users would interface w/ a terminal and all of the work was done on the mainframe. All software is moving that direction - via web services and apps. The idea is that nobody 'owns' their pc's they just rent time from the 'cloud'.
Look at nvidias gaming handhelds.
365 - is outmoding exchange server
sharepoint is outmoding file servers.
The cloud is just someone elses computer. There's no reason to think it will stop anytime soon.
Yes I absolutely hate the whole software subscription models, they are even trying to do that with printers now! You can pay a monthly fee and they will supply all the ink, but if you stop paying your printer stops working! No thanks, I think I'll buy my own ink!
I avoid them everywhere I can. Windows, office, solid modeling, etc.
I don't have a single monthly subscription for software, I always buy the permanent, or at least annual one at a minimum.
I avoid them everywhere I can. Windows, office, solid modeling, etc.
I don't have a single monthly subscription for software, I always buy the permanent, or at least annual one at a minimum.
