{"id":1858,"date":"2012-12-31T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/1858-3d-printing-slot-cars-for-sloppy-70s-handling-and-swagger.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:25:14","slug":"3d-printing-slot-cars-for-sloppy-70s-handling-and-swagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/3d-printing-slot-cars-for-sloppy-70s-handling-and-swagger","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing Slot Cars for Sloppy 70&#8217;s Handling and Swagger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing can be used to make fun things, funner. &nbsp;Like slot cars, sure they can hug the track with terrifying speed and a power to weight ratio similar to putting a cheetah&#8217;s strength into a hummingbird&#8217;s body but they sometimes lack personality, say the personality of a 70&#8217;s Hollywood car chase, with saggy suspension, sloppy handling and a certain clumsy swagger&#8230; Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chase-cars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chase-Cars<\/a>, that uses Shapeways 3D printing to help make slot cars with that special 70&#8217;s style, handling and swagger.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkEqMMqsi-I\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;\">\n<p><em>Modern slot cars have magnets to hold them down and powerful motors so they do enormous speeds, but that doesn&#8217;t make them more fun.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve designed a chassis for a 1:32 scale slot car so 1970s American cars handle like they did in the movies, not like a racing car.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><a href=\"\/materials\/strong-flexible\" target=\"_blank\">Shapeways 3D printed (Nylon) Strong &amp; Flexible White<\/a> is used for the chassis parts, everything for one complete chassis is made in one go during the SLS process then I can break them out and assemble them together with metal pins or nylon bearings where needed.&nbsp; The whole lot is incredibly tough, resistant to the heat of the motor and it allows me to make a complicated chassis without any production tooling costs.&nbsp; It also means I can improve the design as I go along with none of the implications of regular production tooling.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"670\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/chassis-apart.jpg\" alt=\"3D Printed Slot Car Chassis Shapeways\"><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px;\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>I&#8217;ve worked hard to cram all the parts I need into one compact block to keep my costs down, and Shapeways&#8217; easy website means I can upload different models and easily see the cost difference.&nbsp; While there&#8217;s no cost benefit to ordering more than one, Shapeways allows me to group several 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