fun with 306k '88 90Q

[Huw Powell]

Doug,

I actually forced Marc Swanson to make me a pair of custom aquarium 
filter intake tube couplings, but they were reasonably simple.  Worked 
great.

There are some issues with your (great) idea - one is 
programming/drawing time.  Unless someone needs the part themselves and 
doesn't care about "overhead", it could be hard to recoup.

The other is materials - most 3D printing is in ABS, which may be a bit 
too brittle for a part that needs to flex regularly, like a visor clip 
(those clips also incorporate a metal contact and a wire & connector for 
the vanity lights.  $42 from the dealer, by the way).

The trunk clips might be do-able, although the best way would be to have 
one and a 3D scanner.  It would be a hard part to "design" out of thin air.

- Huw

On 7/1/2014 10:59 PM, Douglas Fifield wrote:
 > You would think it possible, in this day of desktop 3D printers, that 
someone could program the part and either make/sell them, or post the 
file so others could.
 >
 > D.
 >
 > On Jul 1, 2014, at 9:37 PM, DeWitt Harrison <dewitt635 at gmail.com> wrote:
 >
 >> On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:04:56 -0400
 >> Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
 >>
 >>
 >>> Saturday was such a nice day out I decided to finally tackle my 
sunroof.
 >>> ...
 >>>
 >>> Since that was so much fun, on Sunday I decided to try to fix my weird
 >>> tach issue.  For a year or two now, it has usually been reading from
 >>> 200-1200 rpms (ie, useless), with occasional episodes of working 
properly.
 >>> ...
 >>
 >> Nice bit of troubleshooting, Huw, especially jumping that cracked 
circuit
 >> board trace. Gives me the courage to keep my '88 5ktq a while longer.
 >>
 >> Wish I could help with any little plastic bits from that era. NLA is a
 >> bitch but so Audi.
 >>
 >> DeWitt Harrison