I have no interest in mass-producing parts for people who are going to use them to repair machines, just so they can re-sell them as 'complete' for a higher price to other people.
With that out of the way, what we really need is a good model for the door. I'm willing to put in the time to make the model, and print prototypes to make sure it works. Unfortunately, I don't have a sample door to make the model from.
Here's the scenario I'd -like- to see happen, though....
We get a sample door (and one with a broken hinge pin should be fine) and make a model from it. After a few attempts, we print one that actually works, so we lessen our chances of a major snafu.
At that point, we nudge someone with a cnc machine (Where's Tom?) to make an aluminum mold. It shouldn't take too many attempts to get that right; from what I've seen (though I'm not an expert at this) we would only need to re-slice the model for use on a cutting machine.
Once we have a mold, we can find someone to do the actual injection molding. Note that most of the cost of doing this is in the mold design and creation, which we would already have. So the actual part production should be really cheap.
I've thought about this quite a bit, to make the HuCard carriers. Assuming things work out right in RL, I may go ahead and see what I can find in a cheap home-style injection molder. Ideally, I could use a silicon mold to do that, but I haven't had any success with it - yet. I definately can't afford the $2K+ for a cnc machine just to make molds for plastic parts
So, who wants to step up and act as project coordinator to make this happen?
More importantly, who has a door they would be willing to donate?
