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Door Bushings. Similar effect as TRD door stabilizers. $40 shipped .
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Someone contacted me by Email. It might have been Shabody.
Anyway I have time to make another batch and the material is available.
The price has gone up unfortunately by $2 due to inflation of both shipping and double sided tape. A set of bushings is now $52 shipped.
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Anyway I have time to make another batch and the material is available.
The price has gone up unfortunately by $2 due to inflation of both shipping and double sided tape. A set of bushings is now $52 shipped.
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I sent out tracking numbers to all those that ordered. If you did not receive a tracking number please PM me otherwise check your PayPal.
Some orders were sent out yesterday and the rest will be sent out tomorrow afternoon. My driveway was sealed yesterday and I am waiting for it to cure before I drive over it.
I put in overtime to get these done to meet my timeline and I am almost done.
This might be my last batch for a while as it has been a long journey. I have read some silly comments over the years so I thought I would cue you all with the level of difficulty of making these bushings as they are not as easy as turning on the printer and poof there it is.
It has required so much trial, error and problem solving to get the settings just right to print this kind of material which is a 3d printers nightmare if the settings are off. And I have to check to make sure the printer holds those settings. The printer has been heavily modified to have an aftermarket extruder, hot end and custom firmware to get the prints to adhere and have overall cohesiveness so they don't come apart or become brittle. Each print takes over an hour because I have to slow it down so there are no errors or voids. I do not worry about copycats that are using wood, metal or trying to print them on their own using lesser materials because I know it will not be as good as this product as every effort has been taken to get this material to print which requires a dryer. One of the properties of this materials is bing stiff yet it will yield and is flexible which is what you want. This is why Derlin might not be a good material for this application.
After printing it has to be post processed and then a layer of double sided tape applied and then packaged. I couldn't have been more thrilled to have sold so many bushings over the last five years and the awesome support from all of you that made this possible so I thank you all for this rare opportunity to serve the community.
Some orders were sent out yesterday and the rest will be sent out tomorrow afternoon. My driveway was sealed yesterday and I am waiting for it to cure before I drive over it.
I put in overtime to get these done to meet my timeline and I am almost done.
This might be my last batch for a while as it has been a long journey. I have read some silly comments over the years so I thought I would cue you all with the level of difficulty of making these bushings as they are not as easy as turning on the printer and poof there it is.
It has required so much trial, error and problem solving to get the settings just right to print this kind of material which is a 3d printers nightmare if the settings are off. And I have to check to make sure the printer holds those settings. The printer has been heavily modified to have an aftermarket extruder, hot end and custom firmware to get the prints to adhere and have overall cohesiveness so they don't come apart or become brittle. Each print takes over an hour because I have to slow it down so there are no errors or voids. I do not worry about copycats that are using wood, metal or trying to print them on their own using lesser materials because I know it will not be as good as this product as every effort has been taken to get this material to print which requires a dryer. One of the properties of this materials is bing stiff yet it will yield and is flexible which is what you want. This is why Derlin might not be a good material for this application.
After printing it has to be post processed and then a layer of double sided tape applied and then packaged. I couldn't have been more thrilled to have sold so many bushings over the last five years and the awesome support from all of you that made this possible so I thank you all for this rare opportunity to serve the community.
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I found this video interesting. This is what your bushings are made of and I am happy at the time to choose this over others like some of the carbon fiber doped stuff that eats up hot end nozzles. Just know that this guy used a smaller diameter nozzle which is typical for most printers. The nozzle I use is larger which adds to the strength of the print even more. This is what the author of the video surmises in his comments which made me impressed on how durable they will be for the lifetime of the car.
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How is the poly tape holding up? Looking for a better solution than what I've been using... Vinyl tape and bushing grease. Requires frequent maintenance, but I wanted to be able to see the sticker. Time to reapply again and hoping this is working better than what I've been doing. Cheers!
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I am at about 1 year with teflon tape. It is pretty worn with a couple of tiny holes here and there, but it still works great. I might remove and replace the original tape at some point, but no need to yet.
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