We're getting a CNC machine! What do you want made for your wagon?
Cutterfiltoff
Band Wagon
Hey all!
We have a Shopbot on the way to our shop. We'll mostly be making synthesizer parts on it, but being an RT owner I thought I should ping the forum for ideas. Our CNC is a 3 axis machine capable of milling aluminum up to 6 inches thick, with a build platform of 24"x36".
I'd like to focus on hard to find wagon parts, for both FWD and RT models. What would be the first things you'd want made? We're very capable of doing small runs if we generate enough interest for a certain part, at very reasonable prices.
Any and all suggestions welcome!
We have a Shopbot on the way to our shop. We'll mostly be making synthesizer parts on it, but being an RT owner I thought I should ping the forum for ideas. Our CNC is a 3 axis machine capable of milling aluminum up to 6 inches thick, with a build platform of 24"x36".
I'd like to focus on hard to find wagon parts, for both FWD and RT models. What would be the first things you'd want made? We're very capable of doing small runs if we generate enough interest for a certain part, at very reasonable prices.
Any and all suggestions welcome!
Comments
Really dude?
They are fun tools.
Did you get a spindle or router?
I thought that was an accord thing?
Round ones are cake to make on the lathe with some delrin.
The square one I have not come up with a solution for. They have an undercut in them for the ball socket. Probably require a custom bit to carve out the hole.
A dash cupholder would be cool, what could be fun is just do like a DIY kit for that, cut a piece that fits the dash, both sides, so it would have a groove on the underside to fit over the divider. Then some accessories could be sold, like the cup holders, or someone could just have a blank for adding their own things on to it. Like if someone wanted to integrate some wooden gauge holders, or a fitting for their smart phone/satnav etc. Definitely potential there for a few things as well.
I always wanted to do some visors out of some thinner ply, since it should be plenty dimensionally stable to suit that task. Maybe a couple different sizes to account for people running the wide rear view mirrors. Or even do them up with cut lines, like the floor mats had. So people have a guide line to trim the visors down themselves.
The pulls for folding the back seats down. The trim that fits around those pulls.
ebrake handles are always something not too complex that can be fun to work with and just add some radness to the interior.
That little trim bit that goes around the seatbelt receiver like I mentioned above, that's some cosmetic stuff right there that's a pretty simple design.
Not sure if it would work out of wood, but plates for where the various additional buttons go. Might be a metal part there or something, not sure exactly how the spring clip mechanism would work in the back, but it's an idea to toy around with. That way people wanting to mount aux switches but don't have the OEM switch aren't having to drill in to the factory dummy plate.