[DeTomaso] Interesting idea

[Bill Lewis]

And, speaking of license plates, does anyone know of a license plate frame that does NOT have the little "ears" at the top that the screw has to go into to bolt it to the car? It would be great if the screw/bolts did not show, but the main thing is I don't like the ears that show.   -----Bill (picky) Lewis

> 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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