March 16 2021, 23:04

The first swallow. Or I don’t even know, darn it. An attempt, partially successful, to create on a 3D printer an object that contours around part of the front panel of the car. Quite a complicated engineering task. I scanned the cast with a homemade scanner, but then the digital copy must be resized to the dimensions of the cast. It’s not trivial because there are no clear reference points. Well, here I seem to have hit the mark accurately, having to enlarge the digital copy by 8.3 times. Next, it’s important to consider that a millimeter error will lead to poor shrinkage. I slightly pushed through here, but pliers and a file….

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