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Old 12-15-2014, 10:20 AM   #31 (permalink)
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Or Google "plastic u nut." It'd probably be worth getting a box of these:


And seeing how easily they can be modified with heat and/or epoxy before deciding to 3D print hardware.

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Old 12-15-2014, 08:20 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Here is the latest tinkering around. I just finished modeling it up over lunch. Its a shift knob with an integrated kill switch. The part coloring is for identification only. The wires will be run out the bottom. It uses one of those little tactile switches, nothing else is small enough to embed into the knob itself it seems.



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Count me in for the shifter Daox!

I need three switches integrated into mine.
One for the brake regen button, one for the kill switch, and a third for . . . . . maybe a low-mounted gatlin gun off the front, or possibly a spike strip deployment button for tailgaters, I haven't decided yet!

Pretty cool stuff!
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Count me in for the shifter Daox!

I need three switches integrated into mine.
One for the brake regen button, one for the kill switch, and a third for . . . . . maybe a low-mounted gatlin gun off the front, or possibly a spike strip deployment button for tailgaters, I haven't decided yet!

Pretty cool stuff!
Oil slick is better!

Tbh though, one for brake regen, one for clutch and another for injector kill would be nice.
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If I was gonna go to the trouble of an oil slick button, I'd have to add a fog machine along with it!

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Changing the design from round would give more possible locations to mount switches.
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Thanks guys. I may play around with different shapes. However, a round shift knob really is my favorite shape for a shift knob.

I started printing a few of the parts tonight. The shift knob halves still need some tweaking though. The parts look a bit rough, and they are. That can be cleaned up with some sand paper or acetone (which melts it).

Here is the button.





The switch mounting plate.





And I found some tactile switches kicking around so I stuck one in there. It works real nice.


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