3D printed vacuum piping

3 minutes of fame

3 minutes of fame

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I failed miserably to find a nice design for some generic vacuum pipes for my stock, so a good friend who I print 00 and 009 bits for his shop designed these for me.

If anybody would like some, I'll do them for £12 for 6, including UK postage. That's as shown below, printed in black resin. 20230809_114049.jpg
 
Cobalt6700 said:
Nice, are these a similar size to the LGB vac hoses? If so, I will take a set please :)
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If you could let me have the size of the LGB hoses, I will happily scale the print to match. Probably need height of the fitting, plus approx diameter of the hose.
 
This is the print fitted to a set of my 16mm Bug Boxes
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3 minutes of fame said:
If you could let me have the size of the LGB hoses, I will happily scale the print to match. Probably need height of the fitting, plus approx diameter of the hose.
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I'm missing some hoses on one of my Wizzy Cranks locos. It should have 4 but I only have 2.

Could you print me some if I send you a hose please? They are different to the ones found on LGB wagons....
 
Gizzy said:
I'm missing some hoses on one of my Wizzy Cranks locos. It should have 4 but I only have 2.

Could you print me some if I send you a hose please? They are different to the ones found on LGB wagons....
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I'm more than happy to take a look. Do you want to send me a private message and I can let you have a postal address etc.
 
We now have 4 options available. Original, original with extra under body support, plus a couple of options for existing stock from LGB etc.

Gizzy Gizzy And dunnyrail dunnyrail I will get the samples out to you. 20230813_101642.jpg
 
Look forward to receiving my sample soon....
 
Even though they are already black, you might want to paint them to create a layer to block the UV rays from the photosensitive resin, so they don't get too brittle too fast in sun light.
 
-bbbb said:
Even though they are already black, you might want to paint them to create a layer to block the UV rays from the photosensitive resin, so they don't get too brittle too fast in sun light.
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Sounds like a good idea, likely I will spray undercoat grey then matt black, then some subtle weathering.
 
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