Make your own parts

[ManDownUnder]

I kid you not

www.emachineshop.com (http://www.emachineshop.com)

Download the software, design the part up, save it, price it up (all done by the SW and you're good to go.

I have it running on my machines and ... well.. I reckon it rocks - apart from the part cost. One off is steepish price, but it doesn mean you can make your own widget - missing from your 1928 Harley or whatever

Metal, Plastic, wood... all available.

Something to think about - could we start saving patterns for common parts - make them available on here if it makes sense? I need a new... brake disk for the RF let's say. I design it up, save that file and throw it up into a library of parts available here on KB, so if anyone else wants one... they can make one too.

Check it out
MDU

[MattRSK]

This brilliant. Someone is in the money.

[ManDownUnder]

This brilliant. Someone is in the money.

Elegant isn't it...

The SW is easy to drive too. I have tech drawing in my background so constructing drawings is easy enough - and their SW is a doddle to use...

[The_Dover]

Fuck, I thought you said make your own pants.

I'm running out of undercrackers..........

[sAsLEX]

I wanted a couple of fairly simple things made up as I was lazy and couldnt be arsed doing it on the lathe at work, plus it needed 26 holes around a diameter and stuff marking that out!

But each identical part of which I wanted 6 would of been 50 odd dollars! A touch rich for my blood! Need to get my hands on the uni cnc machine!

[ManDownUnder]

Fuck, I thought you said make your own pants.

I'm running out of undercrackers..........

No mate - and that rules out "fuck your own pants" and "fuck your own undercrackers"

You're ok to fuck your own crack if you're sufficiently endowed and don't tell anyone...

[The_Dover]

You're ok to fuck your own crack if you're sufficiently endowed and don't tell anyone...

Can you keep a secret?

[ManDownUnder]

I wanted a couple of fairly simple things made up as I was lazy and couldnt be arsed doing it on the lathe at work, plus it needed 26 holes around a diameter and stuff marking that out!

But each identical part of which I wanted 6 would of been 50 odd dollars! A touch rich for my blood! Need to get my hands on the uni cnc machine!

Yeah - that's the bit I found - it is a bit rich although I'm not sure if that's a general rule, or just because I don't know how to drive it proper.

The setup costs are obviously factored into the first one... and it obviously means I don't have to go buy a mill or whatever to make that million dollar widget I've been dreaming of...

[ManDownUnder]

Can you keep a secret?

With sufficient payment - of course!

[sAsLEX]

didnt like the first DXF file I imported from another CAD programme, trying another one now to see what the cost will be!

EDIT yip not really liking anything from my other cad programmes

EDIT2: Ok redid it in their crappy software and 60 US a part, which were far more simplified than the ones I got qoutes for here, so it might jsut be cheaper to steal a CAD system off the net follow the tutorials and then send the files to an Engineering firm here in NZ

[Flyingpony]

Very interesting though I doubt they can make the part I need.
A new galv coated 3mm (or was it 4mm or 5mm :scratch:) thick steel tube vehicle chassis ...

[MattRSK]

I made a stainless steel (316) washer. $80 to get it to my doorstep. Bargin. :D

[Motu]

I've had their CAD program on both my computers for a while.I came top our school in School Cert Tech Drawing - I haven't got a fucking clue how to make it work.

[TLDV8]

I wanted a couple of fairly simple things made up as I was lazy and couldnt be arsed doing it on the lathe at work, plus it needed 26 holes around a diameter and stuff marking that out!


Rotary Table ?

I think i will stick to the old fashioned way :scooter:

[sAsLEX]

Rotary Table ?

I think i will stick to the old fashioned way :scooter:

Yeah like that second pic, rotary table? I guess you line the bit up on the diameter you want the holes around, then you can rotate the piece through specific angles to get the desired number of holes?

If so then yes that wouldn't be soo hard, will have to find out if the workshop I have acccess to could do that!

[pyrocam]

looks awesome-o
not just for bike parts for all kinds of stuff!

[Animal]

G'day all,

I'm a mechanical design engineer, and I have best CAD/CAM capable software available. If you guys ever need stuff designed such as discs, rearsets, fork clamps or any other bolt-on replacement bits, give me a yell. I'm based in Christchurch, and have a huge network of contacts for machining, plating and fabricating stuff but thanks to e-mail and modern technology, NZ is a very small place. Christchurch prices must be lower than those in Auckland because I seem to get a helluva lot of work from the North Island, especially around Auckland, Tauranga and Hamilton. I prefer to work in aluminium because of the weight and versatility of the material but if you need widgets designed for other materials, it's not a problem. I'm currently working on a replacement exhaust system for my kid's ZXR250C because the one on her bike is rusted to hell and is with little doubt hampering the bike's performance. I'm in the very final stages of designing a set of adjustable rearsets for her ZXR, partly because I'm too tall to ride her bike comfortably, but mainly because I was looking for an excuse to replace the crappy-looking OEM parts. This is the sort of thing I do every day, and I'm more than happy to deal with fellow bikers because we speak the same language.

Cheers for now!

CADanimal