5 Feb
2012
5 Feb
'12
11:17 a.m.
I think painting them is a bad idea, in that the paint will wear off
(think of how much use front panel toggles get). Is it possible to get
the raw plastic for such pritners in different colours?
It is, though most of the colors in which they are available are quite
garish. See: http://ultimachine.com/catalog/print-materials/pla/pla-3mm
for a representative sample. Also, how strong are 3D pritned parts comapred to
injection-moulded
ones?The original ones do break so if the replacements are significantly
weaker, they're not going to last.
They're not as strong. But there's also no tooling costs, and once
you've printed up one, you can print up a million for the cost of the
plastic (probably less than $1 each for a hollow switch that size).