[DeTomaso] Interesting idea

[Bill Lewis]

Gee, Kirby, I wish that I were smart enough to know what you said in your email.  Is that a high-tech for the little trace-around letters that I used to buy?  Man, there are some smart dudes in the Pantera ...sphere!    ---Bill

> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:17:04 -0600
> From: kirby.schrader at gmail.com
> To: spkorb at gmail.com
> CC: detomaso at poca.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Interesting idea
> 
> Sean,
> 
> One of my favorite Pantera license plates said... 'IN DEBT'
> 
> A Group 4 in Minnesota way back when... if I recollect correctly.
> :-)
> 
> We've got a 3D printer here at the office. It's not very cheap though...
> Neither the printer itself nor the materials. The printer was right at
> $21,000.
> 
> I currently hold the office record for a 3D item printout... It's a top sub
> for a 5 1/2" frac valve.
> It cost $3800 to print it out.... just in materials.
> My boss was moderately unhappy. The actual metal part would have been about
> the same cost machined from 4140.
> Trouble is, lead time on the metal part was 6 weeks. The plastic part was a
> day and a half and it did exactly what we wanted of it to do in our mockup
> trial. I saved a ton of time!
> 
> FWIW,
> Kirby
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Sean Korb <spkorb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Just thinking aloud, since I don't have enough $$$ or focus to come up
> > with a business plan.  I was thinking about the turn signal cam
> > naughty plastic parts and how they might be reproduced in ABS plastic.
> >  On a 3-D printer.  Other items like bezels and scuff plates and pedal
> > covers and bushings and...
> >
> > Then this http://bitser.net/talks/trilug-20130110.pdf
> >
> > A small cheap computer that can do anything.  UART and other pin I/O,
> > USB, HDMI, ethernet...
> >
> > I see a new age in custom restorations.  I'll be mad when I see
> > someone putting that together, but at least I'll be able to buy cool
> > stuff for my Pantera.  I've been planning on living out my
> > "retirement" restoring 2000 to 2020 classic BMWs and Mercedes Benzes
> > as well as the occasional exotic using versital computers like this to
> > simulate the original intent of our current gizmos.  I don't think
> > there will be a 3-D printer in every home, but maybe at every
> > Wallgreens.
> >
> > Forever in debt,
> > sean
> >
> > --
> > Sean Korb spkorb at spkorb.org http://www.spkorb.org
> > '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382
> > "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller
> > "Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso
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