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bnam
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Anyone have just that plastic toggle switch? The one in mine is missing. Haven’t seen one posted.
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rsbadura
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alman72
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airschooled
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 6:47 am Post subject: Re: Lock toggle for sliding door |
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Check the 3D Printing thread; I think someone had considered printing them.
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 11:56 am Post subject: Re: Lock toggle for sliding door |
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Check the 3D Printing thread; I think someone had considered printing them.
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I suspect that would be VERY expensive!
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ImAddicted
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:10 pm Post subject: Re: Lock toggle for sliding door |
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Check the 3D Printing thread; I think someone had considered printing them.
Robbie |
I suspect that would be VERY expensive! |
Why? And define “very expensive.”
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:41 am Post subject: Re: Lock toggle for sliding door |
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| ImAddicted wrote: |
| NASkeet wrote: |
| airschooled wrote: |
Check the 3D Printing thread; I think someone had considered printing them.
Robbie |
I suspect that would be VERY expensive! |
Why? And define “very expensive.” |
3D printers are very expensive appliances, and anyone using one commercially would seek to make a profit in addition to recouping the capital investment.
Any more than a couple of pounds Sterling for the aforementioned plastic toggle lever would seem very expensive to me!
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Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.
Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)
http://www.vwt2oc.net
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ImAddicted
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| Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 11:19 am Post subject: Re: Lock toggle for sliding door |
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| NASkeet wrote: |
| ImAddicted wrote: |
| NASkeet wrote: |
| airschooled wrote: |
Check the 3D Printing thread; I think someone had considered printing them.
Robbie |
I suspect that would be VERY expensive! |
Why? And define “very expensive.” |
3D printers are very expensive appliances, and anyone using one commercially would seek to make a profit in addition to recouping the capital investment.
Any more than a couple of pounds Sterling for the aforementioned plastic lock lever would seem very expensive to me! |
Must be a UK thing. You can pick up 3D printers in the US for a few hundred dollars for a desktop system. I paid $149 for mine, about the same price as a desktop inkjet printer. The consumables aren't that bad either, about $25USD for a 1k spool of PLA. My design skills are lacking so it wouldn't be something I'd tackle, but I've already paid for the cost of the printer doing some stuff around the house with others' OBJ files.
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 10:09 am Post subject: Re: Lock toggle for sliding door |
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| ImAddicted wrote: |
| NASkeet wrote: |
| ImAddicted wrote: |
| NASkeet wrote: |
| airschooled wrote: |
Check the 3D Printing thread; I think someone had considered printing them.
Robbie |
I suspect that would be VERY expensive! |
Why? And define “very expensive.” |
3D printers are very expensive appliances, and anyone using one commercially would seek to make a profit in addition to recouping the capital investment.
Any more than a couple of pounds Sterling for the aforementioned plastic lock lever would seem very expensive to me! |
Must be a UK thing. You can pick up 3D printers in the US for a few hundred dollars for a desktop system. I paid $149 for mine, about the same price as a desktop inkjet printer. The consumables aren't that bad either, about $25USD for a 1k spool of PLA. My design skills are lacking so it wouldn't be something I'd tackle, but I've already paid for the cost of the printer doing some stuff around the house with others' OBJ files. |
Many things here are more expensive than in the USA, including petrol (i.e. gasoline in USA parlance) which is about 2.25 times more expensive. In some European countries like Norway and The Netherlands, it is even more expensive!
Thinking back to the 1980s, I can recall similar VW car models being virtually half the price that they were in Great Britain. I suspect that motoring insurance here is also very much more expensive, where there is UNLIMITED LIABILITY.
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