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Chassis now on sale on Shapeways in my Dadio Designs shop

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.

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

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.

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 .

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

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 .

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

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 .

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

Just had the first test drive with the new yz-834b gearbox and it runs sweet as a nut gear mesh sounds perfect , I'm a very happy boy , I think I need to start some sort of advertising but not a clue what to do ?

I just added to your empire and ordered some Coyote arms. Now hopefully I can finish building my 2 cars that have been stalled for years.

Thanks , I'm gonna be a miwyonair Rodders

Just spent half the day getting a migrain converting my Samurai chassis into something that prints on a home FDM printer , got the left side done , it's broken down to 3 pieces and still needs a tun of support but at least it will print clean , I got started on the right side but my brain was thumping

Dadio wrote: ↑Sat Dec 18, 2021 4:19 pm Just spent half the day getting a migrain converting my Samurai chassis into something that prints on a home FDM printer , got the left side done , it's broken down to 3 pieces and still needs a tun of support but at least it will print clean , I got started on the right side but my brain was thumping

I can imagine what you mean, specially having a Samurai chassis in hands... Definitely not easy (and the featured suspension front springs are not making this easy - this is probably the most difficult thing to accommodate with FDM printing, I guess)...