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19-4 17:06:46 soccrdad30 welcome
19-4 17:05:19 soccrdad30 Happy Sunday!?!?!
16-4 1:59:28 GNFan Bye, Stony.
16-4 1:59:10 GNFan Bye, Thom.'
16-4 1:58:59 GNFan Last one out's a rotten egg, it seems. I'm outta here, too.
16-4 1:58:08 rvn2001 I guezz I'll go check to zee that all of my trainz are ztill running. Z y'all later.
16-4 1:55:19 GNFan ZU, John.
16-4 1:54:58 rvn2001 Nite, John.
16-4 1:54:42 soccrdad30 Nite all
16-4 1:54:30 soccrdad30 I know the feeling I have to be up at 5:30 to help a grandson get to school
16-4 1:54:01 soccrdad30 nite Ellen
16-4 1:52:57 GNFan Bye, Ellen.
16-4 1:52:26 rvn2001 Nite Ellen.
16-4 1:52:01 ejshelton Time for me to go....I had a busy day and I have to get up crazy early tomorrow for a doctors appt.
16-4 1:48:10 soccrdad30 Autotiv does alot
16-4 1:46:26 soccrdad30 interesting to know
16-4 1:44:34 stonysmith Shapeways couldn't print stuff bigger than about 10 inches long
16-4 1:43:50 stonysmith They're in New Hampshire
16-4 1:41:54 soccrdad30 not heard of them
16-4 1:41:40 stonysmith Autotiv doesn't have a shop feature, but they do beautiful prints
16-4 1:41:12 stonysmith no.. we have another vendor "Autotiv"
16-4 1:38:44 soccrdad30 through SW then?
16-4 1:37:59 stonysmith no way. I can do 8 inches.. this beast is 16 inches long
16-4 1:34:54 soccrdad30 Stony, this was off your printer?
16-4 1:28:35 stonysmith i was surprised that the "horns" on the gates underneath printed
16-4 1:27:49 stonysmith started out with over 3000 separate parts... dropped it to less than 400
16-4 1:27:49 GNFan Stony throws down the gauntlet of challenge to the rivet countes: "Just *try* to find the wrong number of rivets!"
16-4 1:25:38 stonysmith the engineering drawings had EVERY bolt, rivet, nut, and washer ... including threads!!!
16-4 1:25:21 stonysmith just not published yet
16-4 1:25:02 soccrdad30 totally secret freight cars?
16-4 1:24:10 stonysmith in this case, I had to sign an NDA because it's a totally new car, and they gave me the "real" engineering drawingss
16-4 1:23:39 rvn2001 John, I believe that Z Maker just shut down....unless he sold the design for the switchers to AZL.
16-4 1:23:16 GNFan Yikes! At least in 3D printing, Z scale is cheaper.
16-4 1:22:51 stonysmith took me better than a month of evenings to adust it for 3d printing
16-4 1:22:46 soccrdad30 holy cow!!!
16-4 1:22:11 ejshelton WOW
16-4 1:21:51 stonysmith I'm estimating $1500.00 each.. he wants 13 of them in total
16-4 1:21:34 soccrdad30 does anyone know if Zmaker ever sold his stuff to anyone else? or did he just close down and took everything
16-4 1:21:15 stonysmith my buyer didn't tell me what the final cost was to print it.
16-4 1:20:43 soccrdad30 oh either S or O
16-4 1:20:30 stonysmith and MORE expensive to print
16-4 1:20:22 stonysmith even bigger
16-4 1:20:18 stonysmith no.. Oscale
16-4 1:20:09 soccrdad30 is it HO?
16-4 1:18:33 stonysmith yeah, yeah, I know it's not Zscale
16-4 1:18:07 stonysmith «link»
16-4 1:16:48 soccrdad30 not sure what I can do with them
16-4 1:16:31 soccrdad30 I have about 10? 50 boxcars to put the chassis and trucks on
16-4 1:15:25 soccrdad30 yes, but some of his cars (like the tankers, the plastic is getting brittle)
16-4 1:14:52 ejshelton Getting lots done...good for you
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