So it seems I am running out of things to print. Need some new ideas. Engines shells are too big for my printer.
The last things I printed were single-rail lighted bumpers for Lionel's moving gantry crane. The bumpers slide onto the outer rails of Ross Customs 5-rail track for the crane.
However, at this point I seem to have run dry on ideas. If you have an idea or drawing or photo that you would like printed I'll do the design and send you the prints FREE.
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Just sent you an email with a drawing of something I need. Let me know what you think.
Bill
Switch motors
Sorry for the confusion my 3D printer only prints resin or plastic I cant print metal signs.
Signage: the way I would do that in scale plastic sign is create the signe shape with recesses where the letters go and then when the print is completed use colored crayons to file the recess. So a black sign with white letters would first be painted black then using white crayons you melt the white crayon into the recesses.
Alan
I would like to start 3D printing. What type of printer do you have and are you happy with it? I see so many examples on the web some have good recommendations and others bad. Did you have to assemble it and if so how much of a hassle.
Thanks,
Marty
Hmm... a siderod guide for a Lionel 6-8601 0-4-0 steamer (PDF). (also exists as the 8212 Black Cave Flyer) I have 2-3 examples of this loco with the siderod guides broken on one side or the other, and can't for the life of me find any sources online that haven't already been sold out. In the above PDF, it's listed as either a "front mounting bracket"(diagram) or a "front yoke" (parts list).
It's the black assembly on the front of this chassis shot: (photo: Trainz)
I actually have an intact example (from my first O-Gauge trainset) that I was considering making a SketchUp model of in order to pass on to someone with a 3D printer. I can still do (or attempt to do) that, or make a detailed set of close-up photos that someone else could build a model from.
Ditto for the boiler front...although I don't think I'd try to SketchUP model this one with my near-nonexistent experience--the plan was to try to clone my one intact example in rubber molds+resin, but I can also take detailed closeup photos of it from all necessary angles from someone else to model from: (photo: Trainz)
---PCJ
AlanRail posted:Sorry for the confusion my 3D printer only prints resin or plastic I cant print metal signs.
Signage: the way I would do that in scale plastic sign is create the signe shape with recesses where the letters go and then when the print is completed use colored crayons to file the recess. So a black sign with white letters would first be painted black then using white crayons you melt the white crayon into the recesses.
Alan,
No, I understood the printing is in plastic. I was just saying having plastic models of real cast iron signs would be neat.
Interesting idea with the crayons.
PCJ
If you have a sketchup make a .stl or .obj file send that to me.
I have a FormLabs 2 3D laser printer.
As to the boiler fronts I would need all dimensions; it is an easy part to make because it is all rotations about a center
Ok, Here are some ideas:
Tie plates
corner mail boxes
corner telephone booths
rail road crossing signs - the older type you cannot find for sale
Electrical transformers.. small and large, square and round, house meters!
shop tools - drill presses, band saws, bridge ports, planers, lathes, work tables...shelves of tools etc
carts and dolleys... all shapes and sizes, vender carts, ice cream vendor, luggage carts, industrial vacuums,
trash dumpsters, trash cans
small animals, cats, dogs, squirrels, chipmunk's, birds .... and big animals too: bears, mountain lions, moose, deer, etc.
tombstones, graveyard mortuary, etc,
crates, boxes, pallets, barrels, tubs, kegs, buckets, all shapes and sizes
junked cars, bikes, motorcycles, bike racks, water fire hydrants, small shacks
gas pumps, air hose fixtures, furniture, tvs, stoves and appliances.
vending machines, old style news paper machines, candy and gumball dispensers, toilets the water closet type
benches, pic-nic tables. swings and slides
Street cleaner vehicles.
Traffic lights... old style
Cast iron lamp post, fancy store signs and metal brackets
small mining tram and ore cars please!
piles of junk,
fire escape ladders, regular ladders.
tires, wheels, crates of pop bottles...
well I could just go on and on.... 
I almost forgot...
Stationary boilers, fixed boom cranes, gears, and bridge plates for scratch building....
What is the resolution of your machine? Depending on that, it can or cannot do small 1:48 detail parts. I have some architectural details that I'd like printed if the resolution is good enough. I'd just need one of each and then I'd resin cast the rest.
25 microns or 0.000984252" very slow
50 microns or 0.0019685 Inches in 1/4 scale 0.25 is a foot
0.125 is 6 inches
0.0625 is 3 inches
0.03125 is 1-1/2"
0.01562 is 3/4"
0.0078 IS 3/8"
.0039 IS 3/16"
.00195 IS 3/32"
So at 50 mu so between 3/32" and 3/16" at 1/4" scale
you'll need magnifiers to see the detail.
I could use a bundle $100.00 bills.
A bit OT, but NASA.gov has neat 3D printable eclipse viewers in the shape of the lower 48 states or of individual states along the path.
An O scale Cretors popcorn wagon is my ultimate model I would like to see made.Can you scale up the parts from the HO scale kit to O scale?If so,maybe you could get permission use the Highway Miniatures HO scale model to enlarge to an O scale kit.Is 3D printing good for enlarging the scale of an existing model?I would like to make an O scale version of this kit if no one else ever does.
"Doberman" always wanted a doberman. Nobody does one in O.
Marx had very plain, but raised text surfaces like cast signs, but there are some really highly stylized ones going back beyond prewar. Older, more onate signs would be neat.
You can't do a shell, but what are the maxium dimensions you CAN do?
Some folk are pretty handy with glue and body filler.
The old cement catenary arches of Henry Fords DT&I in two or three sections. (Or four; single, or double track) . They have enough style that the locals still kinda like those that remain.
25 microns is very good and would meet my needs. The cornice designs that I'm thinking of printing are very small and delicate and wouldn't take long to produce, but would definitely take advantage of that resolution. Just one of each is needed since I can resin cast all the rest. The width of the eyebrow is just over 1". And I can produce STL output.
J Daddy posted:Ok, Here are some ideas:
Tie plates
corner mail boxes
corner telephone booths
rail road crossing signs - the older type you cannot find for sale
Electrical transformers.. small and large, square and round, house meters!
shop tools - drill presses, band saws, bridge ports, planers, lathes, work tables...shelves of tools etc
carts and dolleys... all shapes and sizes, vender carts, ice cream vendor, luggage carts, industrial vacuums,
trash dumpsters, trash cans
small animals, cats, dogs, squirrels, chipmunk's, birds .... and big animals too: bears, mountain lions, moose, deer, etc.
tombstones, graveyard mortuary, etc,
crates, boxes, pallets, barrels, tubs, kegs, buckets, all shapes and sizes
junked cars, bikes, motorcycles, bike racks, water fire hydrants, small shacks
gas pumps, air hose fixtures, furniture, tvs, stoves and appliances.
vending machines, old style news paper machines, candy and gumball dispensers, toilets the water closet type
benches, pic-nic tables. swings and slides
Street cleaner vehicles.
Traffic lights... old style
Cast iron lamp post, fancy store signs and metal brackets
small mining tram and ore cars please!
piles of junk,
fire escape ladders, regular ladders.
tires, wheels, crates of pop bottles...
well I could just go on and on....
All of these and any number of 1950-1960s commercial signs, all in 1-64 scale as an option.
I'd put a statue of you in my layout's Liberty Park.
being a statue has limited life expectancy these days.
hows about multiples of these?
Smoke jack for a round house, it's the funnel above a locomotive smoke stack that directs the smoke out of the building. 
There are a few parts I'm thinking about having masters made for my Right-O'-Way line. One is a #4 frog. It's a very small frog but the trolley/traction modelers have been asking about it. Probably code 125 & 148.
Also need code 100 rail braces. I have a friend that was working on these for me and I believe he did them in Solid Works.
The whole purpose would be to have masters created and them make molds. Obviously, I take care of the molds and castings.
Jay
tackindy posted:Here are some things I've been printing. Doing designs in Tinkercad.com free online.
Drink Machines, Fire Hydrants, Pot Belly Stoves, Traffic Barrels and Cones, Oil Barrels, Mailboxes...
M1A1 Tanks for my flatcar.
Have you gone commercial on the items in the first photo? I could use almost all of those.
Forty Rod posted:tackindy posted:Here are some things I've been printing. Doing designs in Tinkercad.com free online.
Drink Machines, Fire Hydrants, Pot Belly Stoves, Traffic Barrels and Cones, Oil Barrels, Mailboxes...
M1A1 Tanks for my flatcar.
Have you gone commercial on the items in the first photo? I could use almost all of those.
I had some for sale up on the Forum here, but was told I cannot sell them here due to sponsors selling similar products.
I could use about ten of these. The drawing gives the dimensions in the real world. They were big on the New York and Long Branch, and it's the one piece that would make things more authentic on my layout.
Thanks.
manhole covers
sewer grates
gutters & downspouts
those concrete things in parking lots (not sure what they are called, see pic)
Found it. They are called Car Stops. DUH!
O-scale PRR position light signal heads. Both round and tombstone shape. Flat black material. A bracket on the back that would fit over a vertical pipe support. No need to provide holes for the LED's. They could be drilled out by the customer.
Here is a company selling them in N scale, 8 pieces for $11.70:
https://www.shapeways.com/prod...ad?optionId=56651827
Assuming a fair price of a couple dollars apiece, I would buy 30 or so.
tackindy posted:Here are some things I've been printing. Doing designs in Tinkercad.com free online.
Drink Machines, Fire Hydrants, Pot Belly Stoves, Traffic Barrels and Cones, Oil Barrels, Mailboxes...
M1A1 Tanks for my flatcar.
Did you receive the email that I sent to you on Friday?
Nick
machinist posted:tackindy posted:Here are some things I've been printing. Doing designs in Tinkercad.com free online.
Drink Machines, Fire Hydrants, Pot Belly Stoves, Traffic Barrels and Cones, Oil Barrels, Mailboxes...
M1A1 Tanks for my flatcar.
Did you receive the email that I sent to you on Friday?
Nick
Sent you an email. I didnt see one friday.
I'd also be interested in about 10 of these relay/mechanism boxes that Trainman2 posted on 8/17/17...
tackindy posted:machinist posted:tackindy posted:Here are some things I've been printing. Doing designs in Tinkercad.com free online.
Drink Machines, Fire Hydrants, Pot Belly Stoves, Traffic Barrels and Cones, Oil Barrels, Mailboxes...
M1A1 Tanks for my flatcar.
Did you receive the email that I sent to you on Friday?
Nick
Sent you an email. I didnt see one friday.
My mistake. I re-sent the email to your correct email address. DUH!
Nick
In a Halloween thread, another reader posted about their wish for a scarrier Halloween engine kinda like this. (I think it is a cover from the Dark Towers series of books)
I think something like this boilerface would be something off the beaten path that might be dun to play with, and likely small enough for you to print.
Many trains have a removable boiler front via one screw, or click in place spring tabs. All you have to do is mate a "face" to a boiler sized outer dia. lip.
In a tinted translucent material, and detail painted would work well I'd think and on Halloween you have your monster engine; then Nov 1 it's back to the norm.
Frankentrain
Jeckle and Hyde RR.
Theater and halequin masks....etc.
ok a lot of good ideas and things i hadn't thought of. but here is the rub; i need not just a picture or an idea i need actual 3D dimensions. not necessarily a drawing although that would be nice too. The dimensions must clearly delineate ALL parts such as curves cut-outs, hole or bolt locations size arrangements,etc.
if you have a physical object use a caliper to obtain the dimensions or send it to me. i'm old so inches are better than mm.
i model in Rhino5 now but any .obj or .stl would work too because that is what i create from Rhino5.
Also, if you have scale drawings of the front and/or top and/or side views as .pdfs., .skp , .dwg or whatever I can import those drawings into Rhino5 and create a 3D model from the drawings.
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