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> Did Karman save the tooling for the 914, Like the Brits did?
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post Mar 14 2021, 11:04 AM
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I have a Triumph TR6 and my son has an MGB. British Heritage makes all of the body panels (I had to replace about half the sheet metal on my car) and reportedly obtained the dies by tracking them down after the collapse of British Leyland. What happened to the corresponding 914 dies after production ceased?
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Anyone who has watched the Porsche 3 d printed piston video won’t doubt the capability of 3D printed metal. Size might be an issue for body panels...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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QUOTE(wysri9 @ Mar 16 2021, 07:39 AM) *

Anyone who has watched the Porsche 3 d printed piston video won’t doubt the capability of 3D printed metal. Size might be an issue for body panels...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


If you do a little more research you'll find out Porsche wants $500K for a set of pistons. Not a typo.

Just like the Ford and etc tech, the machines are multi-million dollar technology, no cottage industry can afford this and any business that can will be looking for way more lucrative markets. Like any new tech you're looking at 20 years before the cost of these machines become affordable for even medium sized businesses.

Also 3D printing takes a comparitivly long time, a press can pop out a hundred fenders before you finish printing one.

The tech is cool, incredible pace of improvement, right now great for many smaller things, but to me it's still in it's formative (expensive) stages for larger items.
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QUOTE(Mark Henry @ Mar 16 2021, 12:19 PM) *

QUOTE(wysri9 @ Mar 16 2021, 07:39 AM) *

Anyone who has watched the Porsche 3 d printed piston video won’t doubt the capability of 3D printed metal. Size might be an issue for body panels...... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


If you do a little more research you'll find out Porsche wants $500K for a set of pistons. Not a typo.

Just like the Ford and etc tech, the machines are multi-million dollar technology, no cottage industry can afford this and any business that can will be looking for way more lucrative markets. Like any new tech you're looking at 20 years before the cost of these machines become affordable for even medium sized businesses.

Also 3D printing takes a comparitivly long time, a press can pop out a hundred fenders before you finish printing one.

The tech is cool, incredible pace of improvement, right now great for many smaller things, but to me it's still in it's formative (expensive) stages for larger and


all true at present.

depends what it costs for such a machine 20 years down the road in the end and how broad its application is.

500K for a set of pistons kind of confirms my doubts on whether some of this stuff replaces trad production methods for certain materials.
certainly in my industry big claims are made for "the future" right now.
but i'm not seeing it yet. nothing comes straight from the modelling CAD files out the end of a "printer" just yet.

i've not heard of transparent aluminium, sounds interesting.
i have seen transparent concrete. its pretty good. its more translucent than really transparent.






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worn   Did Karman save the tooling for the 914   Mar 14 2021, 11:04 AM
KSCarrera   I have a Triumph TR6 and my son has an MGB. Brit...   Mar 14 2021, 12:59 PM
wonkipop   would have been sold off as valuable scrap. might ...   Mar 15 2021, 01:24 PM
Mikey914   It's probably the bankruptcy that caused the l...   Mar 15 2021, 03:48 PM
bkrantz   Since I have no real knowledge, I can speculate ab...   Mar 15 2021, 08:46 PM
Mikey914   Since I have no real knowledge, I can speculate a...   Mar 15 2021, 10:44 PM
Mark Henry   Since I have no real knowledge, I can speculate a...   Mar 16 2021, 04:57 AM
wonkipop   Since I have no real knowledge, I can speculate ...   Mar 16 2021, 05:16 AM
Superhawk996   Since I have no real knowledge, I can speculate ...   Mar 16 2021, 06:04 AM
mgp4591   The dies were set up on a set of jackstands and ru...   Mar 15 2021, 08:54 PM
wysri9   Anyone who has watched the Porsche 3 d printed pis...   Mar 16 2021, 05:39 AM
wonkipop   Anyone who has watched the Porsche 3 d printed pi...   Mar 16 2021, 06:02 AM
Superhawk996   Anyone who has watched the Porsche 3 d printed pi...   Mar 16 2021, 06:11 AM
Mark Henry   Anyone who has watched the Porsche 3 d printed pi...   Mar 16 2021, 12:19 PM
wonkipop   Anyone who has watched the Porsche 3 d printed p...   Mar 16 2021, 07:07 PM
live free & drive   This is the panel fab technology I think you are r...   Mar 16 2021, 05:53 AM
wonkipop   This is the panel fab technology I think you are ...   Mar 16 2021, 05:59 AM
Mikey914   While possible to use direct laser sintering to ...   Mar 16 2021, 09:33 AM
buck toenges   While possible to use direct laser sintering to ...   Mar 16 2021, 12:30 PM
ClayPerrine   Transparent Aluminum. Come on Man! :) Tran...   Mar 16 2021, 02:50 PM
mrholland2   Transparent Aluminum. Come on Man! :) Tra...   Mar 18 2021, 09:20 AM
bkrantz   While possible to use direct laser sintering to ...   Mar 16 2021, 08:14 PM
wonkipop   While possible to use direct laser sintering to ...   Mar 17 2021, 01:40 AM
Mikey914   Apparently it was made in 2009. I'm getting ol...   Mar 16 2021, 08:01 PM
targa72e   BMW does mass produced 3D printing of parts for so...   Mar 21 2021, 01:14 PM
worn   This is great. I originally wondered what happene...   Mar 21 2021, 04:25 PM
Johny Blackstain   I would find the temptation of stamping new panels...   Mar 21 2021, 04:58 PM
ConeDodger   Speaking of the Heritage MG parts, I had an MGB fo...   Mar 21 2021, 09:38 PM


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