The chassis of the turntable from the 3D printer, during installation
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3D Activation prints turntable chassis for Billionpoints Film, TV & Eventeinrichtungen GmbH
In the past few years, we at 3D Activation have already been able to realize numerous interesting projects for our customers. We have already reported on some of these in this blog.
Today we would like to tell you about a turntable whose chassis we were able to produce for the Munich company Billionpoints Film, TV & Eventeinrichtungen GmbH on a 3D printer.
How it came about
In the beginning there was the idea of a extremely light turntable to manufacture, which still produces an excellent sound. The record players from the English record manufacturer Rega served as a model for this, as Mr. Bieling explains. In order to surpass this model, the customer dismantled his Rega record player “with the aim of making the chassis EVEN lighter – but just as stable as a “pressboard”, as Bieling continues. He describes the result achieved in this way as “surprisingly good”.
3D printed turntable chassis
Rega turntable as a model
3D printing as a panacea
A first attempt at the injection molding process revealed extreme design problems. In addition, the result was significantly less precise than it was intended to be achieved later in the 3D printing process. That means concretely, there was deviations of up to 4 mm, and the result on the surface was lousy, as Mr. Bieling describes it. In addition, the model was significantly heavier than the chipboard that had previously served as the chassis.
We were able to solve all of these problems for Mr. Bieling in 3D printing. Our method, as confirmed by Mr. Bieling, proved to be extremely accurate and produced a good surface (which later stayed the way it came out of the printer). The result was also significantly thinner and therefore lighter.
From display model to element construction
Mr. Bieling had planned this project for illustrative purposes, but also to gain initial experience with the sensible construction. He also wanted to test the price structure with this project. As a set designer for television studios, Mr. Bieling is now planning to use 3D printing technology for element construction in the future.
Read more about some interesting projects we have realized on our blog.
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