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Automobiles are some of the most highly engineered products on the planet. It spoils us, and sets a high standard for what we want. There is like a million man-hours of engineering that goes into a single vehicle design before it rolls off the production line with a slick custom injection...

Just so you know what I was thinking, every bit of how it is currently is intentional. Those aren't things I overlooked. If the face plate isn't flat across the front, there is no way to 3D print it (in FDM 3D printing) to get a nice smooth print. One side of the teeter-totter would be flat...

Yeah, and the wire bundle is really stiff. Trying to get it to connect to the switches, and then bunch it up inside the box is challenging. I had a few iterations before this, based off the original "cool looking" tach pod, each getting bigger and bigger, and they still didn't fit. I made...

I've been working on a new tach pod, that can also hold the winch switches. This will probably (eventually) get more revisions, because it's big, ugly, hangs over the front of the heater a little, etc., and I don't like it. There were a couple iterations to get to this one, and the reason for...

It's printed in PETG for exactly those reasons. I think it says that in the post, but I'll double check.

I printed this on my personal Prusa i3 MK3, in my home prototyping shop. Honestly though, depending on what kinds of printers you have at work, they are often good at creating finer details but the materials are not as robust. For example the Objet brand printers use a UV curable resin that is...

I would think yes, you need it as warm as you can get it in there. I turn my bed up to 110C, inside the popup tent, to try to reduce warping as much as possible.

While poor quality or humidity infused filament can be a problem, my first guess would be it's the lack of enclosure causing you problems. I printed these on my Prusa i3 MK3, and it prints ABS quite poorly because of the lack of enclosure. I had an older, much less innovative, and lower...

What strength problems are you having? Polyethylene is not stronger than ABS. It's close to the mechanical properties of ABS, and way better than PLA, but prints with the quality of PLA and without the warping problems of ABS. So it's close to the best of both worlds... strong, functional...

It's quite strong. I printed this one in polyethylene, for the mechanical properties and heat tolerance. I designed it with a healthy 0.120" wall thickness, which makes it about as strong as an injection molded part with maybe a 0.080" wall thickness. 3D printed parts are weakest in the...

I suppose that depends on what you think "reasonable" is, and it seems like there are a lot of definitions around here. It's about 50 hours of printing, $15 in plastic material, and $10 in fasteners. So the housing would probably be a bit more than the tach and power outlets cost. This one is...

Just something I've been working on. I still have to sand and paint it (this is straight off my printer), and then finish making the wiring harness. But the mock up looks good. The tach faces the driver, instead of straight back like the winch trucks' tachs do. I also plan to make some nice...