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I decided I could not buy a cutout pedal for my exhaust whistle, but I decided to 3d print one. Here are the pics.


Ps, I worked on it for only an hour with the use of about a dollar in material!

What make 3D printer did you use?

Monoprice mini v2 with pla filament

What material does the 3D printer use to make that? At least that is not critical to the operation of the car and if it breaks while you are driving should be easy to disconnect and use without it. If it works, maybe you could go into production making them. Back in the 1950's I thought everything which would ever be invented had been invented. Boy was I wrong. Now my life only has a few years left. Your generation is bound to see a lot more things which have not even been thought of. That was before the Moon landings. I remember when I got my desktop computer I thought It would be great for typing out letters and making corrections on them before I printed out and sent by U.S. mail! Now we have e-mail and forums and the pony express is used mostly for political ads or other ads and deliveries!
Same with TV I remember the first national broadcast live. It was when General Mac Arthur came home from Korea when Truman was President. It was connected by long distance telephone lines across the country. Now we can see things all over the world live. Who would have ever thought there would be a 3D printer?
Norm

I went on line to seek ionformation on this device. Does it come with software to use to design items.?

Norman Kling wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 13, 2021 3:34 pm

... Your generation is bound to see a lot more things which have not even been thought of....

Norm, quite right. That's why I haven't joined the climate change panic bandwagon. In 1890, as I recall, someone predicted that with the combination of population growth and transportation requirements, New York City would be buried in horse manure before 1930. No one foresaw the motor age. Technology stepped in and, as near as I can tell, excess horse manure is not a problem in large (or small) metropolitan areas today. We're projecting today's problems into the future and ignoring as yet unknown technological advances.

As Doris Day sang, "...whatever will be, will be. The future's not ours to see. Che sera sera."

In 1948 My teacher said we are going into another ice age. As a kid, I believed her.January 1949 we had a foot of snow in the Los Angeles Suburbs. It hasn't happened since. When the ModelT was first being developed, it was thought that if you went over 50 MPH all the air would be sucked out of your lungs. It didn't take long to disprove that. In the 1940's when the Arroyo Seco Parkway (the first freeway) In Los Angeles was opened, we were driving on it in a 36 Ford. My dad said,"We are going 45 miles per hour. I said, "Why don't we go 70?" If my mother had been wearing dentures, they would have fallen out, her jaw dropped so far! She said," That's too fast, no one will go that fast" They lived to see the 70 MPH speed limits.
Norm

I used a free online program called tinkercad to design it and I use a program called ultimaker cura to prepare it to print

Norm, ... I became fascinated with the oldtimers telling stories like yours
when I was just a kid (early 60's). I spent any time I could around old people,
just to hear their stories, look at their cool old stuff, and simply immerse
myself in the smoke of a train, disappearring toward to the horizon. That
America they new lingered in places into my lifetime, and while my friends
were all interested in the latest and greatest, I was going the other direction.

I really enjoy your remininscences. That observational awareness of a time
and way of looking at things that is so neat ! Thanks.

When I was a boy, we lived in a 2 story house. In the summer it was hot upstairs in the bedrooms so we slept with the windows open. About 2 blocks away, there was a 4 way stop sign. It was up a a slight grade toward our house. So I would lay there and listen to the cars come to the stop and then start out. I could tell a Model T, a Model A, and an early V8. I could also tell a Chevrolet from a Plymouth. All the cars had a distinct sound. They also had their own distinct look. Nowdays I have to look at the Logo to see what kind of car it because the look and sound very similar. It was 5 miles to the nearest train station, but I could hear the steam engines stop at the station and start out again. I still have very good hearing for my age. The most hideous noise I heard was a Coyote howling!
Norm

Norman Kling wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 13, 2021 9:13 pm

... In the summer it was hot upstairs in the bedrooms so we slept with the windows open. ...

Norm, when was the last time you heard the term "sleeping porch"? When I was a child, I would spent weekends with my grandparents in a suburb of St. Louis. This was around 1947-49. In the summer, my grandfather slept on the screened porch at the back of the house. I think it was probably the mid-fifties when window air conditioners began appearing in certain rooms of the house.

St. Louis summers can be brutal. My mother grew up in the city, and I remember her telling me that her mother would wet the sheets before the kids went to bed so the evaporation would create a cooling effect.

My grandparents had a sleeping porch and my uncle slept there all year round. Since it was in California, it was not usually freezing cold and he just added as many blankets as he needed in the winter.
Norm