Amazon Cars: Repairing classic Volvos with 3D printing

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3 ай бұрын

Amazon Cars, located in Brundish, East England, is a unique workshop where Emma and Rob Henchoz restore vintage Volvo cars and turn them into rally cars, using 3D printing to create hard-to-find parts. Since starting their business in 2001, they've become known for their expertise in bringing classic Volvos back to life.
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@throwawayaccountm1325 3 ай бұрын

THIS is exactly the oddly specific stuff you can do with a 3D printer I want to see!!

@christophed9845 3 ай бұрын

It's so satisfying to meet passionate people, thank you for sharing. Well done 🙂

@chickencraft101 3 ай бұрын

These are the two hobbies that combine perfectly!!!

@deeply999 3 ай бұрын

The fact he did a lack mod instead of the actual cabinet is amazing use of whats around to printing in an enclosure

@Rust_in_Time 3 ай бұрын

I've been 3D printing stuff for my classic cars for years now. Everything from radio fascias to the dashboard knobs and even the rubber bungs for the floor. Just could not do it without the Prusas - thank you Josef!

@avejst 3 ай бұрын

Clasic and mordern in one packed Great video 🙂

@moritzmhmk 3 ай бұрын

In case anyone else is wondering why on earth you would have a Curta in a rally car: classic road rally rules prohibit the use of electronic devices 😅

@casualroses 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! I was excited at the sight of the Curta, but wondered why it was there and so prominent.

@NiHaoMike64 3 ай бұрын

But the instrument cluster is electronic rather than mechanical?

@jothain 3 ай бұрын

@@NiHaoMike64This. I was thinking it has something about rules, but also was wondering about the digitals for co-driver??

@44492611 3 ай бұрын

Great video! and you have convinced me to try asa filament.

@doranku 3 ай бұрын

Nice use of 3D printing. I hope you can keep those nice cars on the road for the forseable future. I still need to model a strange gear for my 20 year old bike's windscreen that I cannot get a replacement for. One day I will do it but the part needs to be metal. But if a plastic prototype part can work just even for a few seconds as a proof of concept, a metal printed or otherwise manufactured version can be ordered as a 1 off product these days.

@rembrantsworkshop 3 ай бұрын

Makes me miss my 122 estate

@tigdrecardoso 3 ай бұрын

the shock mount for bonnet could be improved (in strength ) if you add fillets.

@CountryTesla 3 ай бұрын

Cool! Mk3's been making obsolete Gleaner combine and machinery parts for a year now in the midwest US

@Scriven42 3 ай бұрын

3D Printed Hex set bolts, extra-large.

@AdityaMehendale 3 ай бұрын

A Mark3 and a pair of Ikea Lacks 8:22 . The Lack-table is like the bun around a hamburger, or the pencil that winds a cassette-spool.

@fh9123 3 ай бұрын

5:11 "Made in Liechtenstein", now that's a first one.

@jothain 3 ай бұрын

Have Mk3s at home and work. Even though they're quite dated these days, they're really good printers. Almost always I plot the printers on and then after few hours get that "oh sh.." feeling as if things fail, it's almost always the first layer, wrong selection for sheet or something. But if everything is setup correctly it's like 95% success rate on Mk3s's.

@DrNerf 3 ай бұрын

Wow, Thomas Shelby got a really nice hobby :D

@rallekralle11 3 ай бұрын

en gammal amazon, med lister och krom...

@Schnabulation 3 ай бұрын

I‘d really like to know in what kind of material these parts are printed. I recon PLA or even PETG would melt in a hot engine bay, no? Are these all out of ABS or ASA?

@garagecedric 3 ай бұрын

I use PETG for interior and general stuff around the car thats not heat affected, asa for medium duty and Prusa PCCF for demanding underbonnet stuff, its excellent for that.