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Sun, 04 August 2019 23:38  |
Robin Hood
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After Action Report.
(crossposted to GMC Net mailing list, GMC Motorhome Facebook group, my own
Facebook page, and possibly the r/3Dprinting subreddit)
https://youtu.be/IKL4atM8wBM
On Thursday, August 1, 2019 my scanning vendor arrived on site to start
scanning the molds. no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy,
and this was no exception. Due to a miscommunication, a portable air
conditioner was NOT in fact arranged for the portable garage that I bought.
Said Harbor Freight portable structure wasn't able to stand up to a stiff
Florida breeze and wound up across the parking lot overnight, bent up, and
had to be set back up again to provide poor Nathan (the scan tech) with
SOME sort of shelter from the ferocious Orlando August sun.
While I was dealing with a difficult judge in a difficult venue, my wife
was helping Jim Bounds with Day 1 of scanning. It was hot miserable work,
but we learned a lot.
For Day 2, I was on hand as well as Jim's assistant. The owner of the
storage yard let us move the scanning into his forklift barn. Hooray for
solid concrete floors, a roof to keep the sun and rain off, and electricity
to drive fans and other equipment! It made all the difference. The portable
garage was unceremoniously scrapped. With more area to work, production
picked way up on getting the molds scanned.
Bad weather moved in, and it was clear we weren't going to finish the whole
project (shocker, I know) that day, so we called it quits and will make
plans to finish up over another couple of days sometime in the coming weeks.
Looking forward to finishing the project and seeing the cleaned up
datafiles, and figuring out what techniques may be best suited to reproduce
our parts.
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Robin Hood
Jacksonville FL
2013 Subaru Outback "Top Flight"
1968 Pontiac Catalina "The Cheshire Cat"
1977 GMC Palm Beach motorhome "Barn Queen"
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| Re: [GMCnet] GMC Mold Scanning Project: Day 1 and 2 [message #346073 is a reply to message #346070] |
Mon, 05 August 2019 07:34  |
Ken Henderson
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Robin,
VERY interesting. Thank you for undertaking that enormous project for the
benefit of the GMC community.
Ken H.
Americus, GA
'76 X-Birchaven w/Cad500/Howell EFI & EBL,
Manny Brakes & 1-Ton, Troy-Bilt APU, etc., etc., etc.
www.gmcwipersetc.com
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 12:39 AM Robin Hood via Gmclist <
gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:
> After Action Report.
>
> (crossposted to GMC Net mailing list, GMC Motorhome Facebook group, my own
> Facebook page, and possibly the r/3Dprinting subreddit)
>
> https://youtu.be/IKL4atM8wBM
>
> On Thursday, August 1, 2019 my scanning vendor arrived on site to start
> scanning the molds. no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy,
> and this was no exception. Due to a miscommunication, a portable air
> conditioner was NOT in fact arranged for the portable garage that I bought.
> Said Harbor Freight portable structure wasn't able to stand up to a stiff
> Florida breeze and wound up across the parking lot overnight, bent up, and
> had to be set back up again to provide poor Nathan (the scan tech) with
> SOME sort of shelter from the ferocious Orlando August sun.
>
> While I was dealing with a difficult judge in a difficult venue, my wife
> was helping Jim Bounds with Day 1 of scanning. It was hot miserable work,
> but we learned a lot.
>
> For Day 2, I was on hand as well as Jim's assistant. The owner of the
> storage yard let us move the scanning into his forklift barn. Hooray for
> solid concrete floors, a roof to keep the sun and rain off, and electricity
> to drive fans and other equipment! It made all the difference. The portable
> garage was unceremoniously scrapped. With more area to work, production
> picked way up on getting the molds scanned.
>
> Bad weather moved in, and it was clear we weren't going to finish the whole
> project (shocker, I know) that day, so we called it quits and will make
> plans to finish up over another couple of days sometime in the coming
> weeks.
>
> Looking forward to finishing the project and seeing the cleaned up
> datafiles, and figuring out what techniques may be best suited to reproduce
> our parts.
>
> --
> Robin Hood
> Jacksonville FL
> 2013 Subaru Outback "Top Flight"
> 1968 Pontiac Catalina "The Cheshire Cat"
>
> 1977 GMC Palm Beach motorhome "Barn Queen"
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| Re: [GMCnet] GMC Mold Scanning Project: Day 1 and 2 [message #346078 is a reply to message #346070] |
Mon, 05 August 2019 08:19 |
jhbridges
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Location: Braselton ga
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Robin, thanks! We will live on into the future.
Now, after a tour of RCR courtesy of Barry Owen and Rich, I have an idea. If we could fit it in (I didn't measure to see if the scaffolding was tall enough) what's the chances we could get the Childress folks to run a 23' and a 26' through their scanner complete? We wouldn't need the NASCAR filter, just a complete scan of a finished coach. Could someone ask Barry if that's even remotely feasible? We would then - when Robin finishes - have a scan of each part and of the finished product.
--johnny
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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| Re: [GMCnet] GMC Mold Scanning Project: Day 1 and 2 [message #346082 is a reply to message #346078] |
Mon, 05 August 2019 10:10 |
Robin Hood
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The scanner they've got can scan the entire outside of the coach. As long
as the handheld unit knows its position in space, it can just look at
anything. They've scanned entire airplanes.
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:43 AM Johnny Bridges via Gmclist <
gmclist@list.gmcnet.org> wrote:
> Robin, thanks! We will live on into the future.
> Now, after a tour of RCR courtesy of Barry Owen and Rich, I have an idea.
> If we could fit it in (I didn't measure to see if the scaffolding was tall
> enough) what's the chances we could get the Childress folks to run a 23'
> and a 26' through their scanner complete? We wouldn't need the NASCAR
> filter, just a complete scan of a finished coach. Could someone ask Barry
> if that's even remotely feasible? We would then - when Robin finishes -
> have a scan of each part and of the finished product.
>
> --johnny
> --
> Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
> Braselton, Ga.
> I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me
> in hell
>
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Robin Hood
Jacksonville FL
2013 Subaru Outback "Top Flight"
1968 Pontiac Catalina "The Cheshire Cat"
1978 GMC Royale motorhome "Pinto Bean"
1977 GMC Palm Beach motorhome "Barn Queen"
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| Re: [GMCnet] GMC Mold Scanning Project: Day 1 and 2 [message #346272 is a reply to message #346070] |
Fri, 09 August 2019 10:35 |
jhbridges
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That might well be sufficient. However, the NASCAR system is a hoss. I believe he told me the maximum error is a thousandth of an inch throughout. I'd believe it.
--johnny
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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