[rescue] 3D model of parts (Re: Wanted SS5/20 disk bracket, UK preferred)

[Alexander Jacocks]

Romain,

Ibd put it online at thingiverse and prusaprinters.org. That would allow a
decent chance for someone to find it.

- Alex

On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 04:21 Romain Dolbeau <romain at dolbeau.org> wrote:

> > On 8/8/21 10:56 PM, Jonathan Patschke wrote
> > > No, but in this day of 3D printing, perhaps we can.B  If there aren't
> > > already active projects for measuring the extant samples of plastic
> > > parts from older systems and making CAD models of them in some open
> > > (readmable/writable/sliceable using only FOSS) format, there probably
> > > should be.
>
> I agree with Jonathan, that would be nice to help fix old systems that
> were not always treated kindly...
> One of my SS20 is nearly pristine, but the others were carelessly
> handled for a decade or two before I salvaged them, and the cases are
> in an awful state - what's left of them.
>
> I have recently done an OpenSCAD model for the Sun 340-2963 (backpanel
> filler for SS10/SS20), there's no real place to put it where it could
> be found by someone in need of one.
> 3d-printed in PLA it's not sturdy enough to hold an MBus module, but
> it will help control air-flow by plugging unwanted holes from removed
> SBus cards.
>
> Le lun. 9 aoC;t 2021 C  16:32, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> a
> C)crit
> :
> >   I do a lot of replacement part design these days, usually in OpenSCAD
> > but more recently in FreeCAD, targeting an FDM 3D printer workflow.
>
> Is that purely internal for the LSSM, or do you make the modelled
> parts available somewhere?
>
> Cordially,
>
> --
> Romain Dolbeau
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