Hello,

Being my first post i try to keep it short. I was discussing the SD adapter with SzörG, and it came up that a new cartridge case could be made for it. It also came up that there are not really replacement parts for the Enterprise. Getting all enthusiastic about this i ran downstairs to my lab and after one week of misery (some of my chemicals are beyond due dates by years), it seems i can make replacement parts for the machine.

Unfortunately i was unable to get my hands on a mint condition cartridge, so on the attached pictures you can see:
-original cartridge
-original cartridge after wet-sanding, polishing and painting
-reproduced cartridge (this is not perfect yet, i was focusing on the finish and the shore D hardness of the material)

Once i get an SD adapter from SzörG, i can design and make a specialized cartridge housing for it in same quality.

Since the chemicals and the manufacturing process doesn't come cheap, the cheapest part let's say a joystick knob comes out to around 8GBP while the cartridge around 13GBP
I have a lot of project plus family, so i'm making these in my spare time.

This post is mainly to see if anyone is interested, the technology is there to create even a full computer case.

I would be interested 2-3 cartridge and joystick cup, and one EP case if there are enough candidate to start producing any of them

For SD-card reader there is some ready models:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1003869
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:405343

You are great!

It is amazing to see the detail perfection of the cloned key. I don't have any of them broken, but I can say that you will make happy a lot of people.

Lol, actually mixing out gray is 50x easier than the other colors...

Here's the latest rendering... the color still doesn't match, will do a test strip tonight and see where r we going...

Hi,

Sorry for not keeping the UK thread up-to-date, for extra pictures and stuff please check the HUN post.

I ran into a problem, a separator liquid was not compatible with the molding material (despite the fact that it supposed to be created for it), and it also reacted with the paint on the master.
So i had to re-sand and re-paint the master, and i run a test to see if the cast lip was damaged, and as you can see on the pictures it is bad...
Don't look at the color, i was in a hurry to see the damage, and it didn't go through the vacuum system, and probably i didn't mix well the FeO [Iron(II)-Oxide]

I'll try it again with the lessons learned...

Thank you!

I just messed up a week's worth of work by doing something while being tired....
I forgot to add a chemical and ....... .. . ...... .....

Will see at 10pm tonight if the saving attempt is successful or not.

Hi,

I wasn't updating the UK forum lately, so here are some points so far:

-cartridge is still under development, it's a tougher cookie than i originally thought, but good progress is made, only thing missing is time...
-Joystick: I include some pictures of the joystick project, the goal is to reproduce a complete joystick, including the rubber bell, and interior. I've received some pictures detailing the parts of the Enterprise (from Zozosoft), and while the pictures can't be used directly in image form due to the poor quality and wrong angle (it's not scanned), so i built a parametric model of the bell in CAD, also some profiles to keep the original bell in original orientation for copying.... we will see which one wins...