TMCP #404: Engineer Dan Cheveralls – Using 3D Printing For One-Off Reproduction Parts; NPD’s Ask Rick – The Business, Art, and Science of Manufacturing Large Volume Restoration Parts
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Robert Kibbe
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🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This weeks show is with Dan Cheveralls, an engineer at a tools company and a fellow Dukes of Hazzard fan. His experience as a product development engineer brought him into the fold of using 3D printing for the development and evaluation of new products, and he has successfully integrated this into his personal life by creating "one-off" parts for his own restoration projects. Since the viability of 3D printing has been a common question as of late I asked him on the show to share the process!
On this edition of Ask Rick we dug into the opposite side of the 3D "one off" discussion and jumped full bore into the process, timeline, and (frankly) large expense of mass market restoration part manufacturing! I wanted to know about some of the intricacies surrounding the creation and sourcing of a new part.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 404. |
| 0:03.8 | This week, we're finally going to dig into the question you've all been asking. |
| 0:07.6 | How do we go about getting 3D printed parts made for those rare, hard-to-find items, |
| 0:13.1 | assuming we can even figure out what we want made in the first place? |
| 0:17.0 | Our guest is Dan Chevroles. |
| 0:18.4 | This is what he does for a living for his employer, and he has adapted |
| 0:22.1 | this technology to create parts for his own projects. Today we'll talk about how he designs them, |
| 0:28.0 | how he sources them, how he recommends having them printed. This is a great introduction to the |
| 0:32.8 | topic, including tips for those of you who are not design engineers, and maybe you don't even have to break the bank. |
| 0:39.1 | And if you 3D print stuff, it's really not terribly expensive even to have somebody else do it, |
| 0:44.5 | because the investment is relatively low, and the material cost is really low. |
| 0:49.4 | Plus, we'll kick off football season with Ask Rick from NPD, and we'll talk parts with him too. |
| 0:55.1 | Bernie, do we have the old Monday Night Football jangle? |
| 1:02.3 | This is the Muscle Car Place, Weekly Online Podcast, brought to you by National Parks Depot. This is the weeklycle Car Place, weekly online podcast. Brought to you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:13.3 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:19.2 | Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:25.5 | Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
| 1:29.4 | Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. |
| 1:33.3 | Hope you had a great Labor Day. |
| 1:34.9 | Football is here. |
| 1:36.0 | I'm actually recording this the day before Labor Day. |
| 1:38.7 | Got a weird travel schedule this week, so I'm laboring on Labor Day Eve. |
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