Dadio's 3D Printing Stuff

[Dadio]

Oh so close , 13 out of 14 mountings line up perfect , the torsion bar adjuster is spot on , just one last adjustment and it's ready for a good quality print

[XLR8]

I'm completely unfamiliar with the RC your building Dadio but I can appreciate the work you are doing to replicate parts for it; that's an extremely complex part.
Your doing some very advanced design engineering work and I seriously doubt that the professionals who created this car a few decades back could have imagined that someone in the distant future would be re-creating their work on a computer and printer in their home. It's really quite amazing when you stop and think about it.

[Dadio]

This is a Marui Samurai , Stock box art on the left , they are one of the best looking 80's cars in my opinion but horribly fragile ! The chassis was like egg shell when new , made of very thin brittle ABS , new chassis are getting very hard to come by and its a beast of a shape to draw up in CAD

[Dadio]

This is the very latest iteration of the chassis with all rolled edges and sectioned out hollow , I've kept a version that's not sectioned out and I'll offer both the solid and sectioned version on Shapeways , cost difference is negligible .

[Dadio]

It's done ! by far in a way the hardest thing I've ever reverse engineered , everything lines up , it just drops right in there

[Dadio]

Chassis now on sale on Shapeways in my Dadio Designs shop

[Dadio]

Printed and fitted the right side chassis for the Samurai and it also fitted perfectly , I've just ordered both parts myself from Shapeways , I'll let you know when they arrive.

[Dadio]

Got a delivery from Shapeways today , that should be good but its not , the chassis parts for the Marui Samurai is what I'd ordered but on inspection they are 1.5mm too long ! they advertise a dimensional accuracy of 0.15% but 1.5mm over on a length of 185mm is 0.81% and makes it not a nice fit if your just fitting one side , it will fit just with a mix of original and my part , if you fit both sides then its fine but its not what i wanted really , I've emailed them to see how its happened and if I need adapt my model ?
Otherwise the chassis looks nice .





I've taken the model off sale for now until its resolved

[GoMachV]

I had ordered some parts that were supposed to be round, spacers iirc, and they arrived oval shaped. I inquired and they pulled that accuracy card until I sent pics, then they reprinted and the next were fine.

The big issue is the inconsistency, as buyers may think it’s your work that is incorrect when it’s the print.

[Dadio]

I just sent pictures but it's hard to prove as I can't get both ends of a ruler in one picture , I could put a note in the description and only sell in pairs but it kind of sucks after all the work I put in to get it right .

[Dadio]

Shapeways have agreed to reprint the chassis and I've put it back up in my shop , I've only reinstated the pair of chassis halves as that way they are going to fit , its a shame but I don't want the grief of complaints that i can't prevent

[Dadio]

Just got the reprinted Samurai chassis and its spot on this time , I've put it back on sale on Shapeways but only as a pair not as the right or left halves , that way no matter how much tolerance it will still fit .

[Dadio]

Last week I finally got started on remodeling the Yokomo Dogfighter yz-834b gearbox , it's now finished and ordered from Shapeways , if it comes back good then it's going in my shop , fingers crossed

[Dadio]

Very Very pleased with the Yokomo YZ-834b Dogfighter gearbox I just got back from Shapeways It's spot on , even mates with its original other halves ! Going up on my Dadio Designs Shapeways shop today .

These next two show the original gearbox mated up to the printed version

The eagle eyed will notice the odd diff and Kyosho chain sprocket as I stripped out my runner gearbox as a comparison .

[XLR8]

Beautiful Dadio, absolutely beautiful!
It's virtually indistinguishable from the original part.
Awesome work.