Repair of a roller of an office chair

cotty

One roller of my office chair broke and I was not able to glue it.
So I modeled a replacement as a prosthesis for the role and printed it...

d12dozr

Nice work Carsten.

What material did you use? Alumide? Would love to hear how long it lasts!

jpalm32

Interesting. OPens a world for repair of old equipment.

cotty

@d12dozr said:

Nice work Carsten.

What material did you use? Alumide? Would love to hear how long it lasts!

Yes, and I will let you know, until now (= 1 day) there is no problem

Rich O Brien

Can you sue yourself when it breaks?

pbacot

@rich o brien said:

Can you sue yourself when it breaks?

Yeah, but good luck getting paid after lawyer's fees for both sides.

cotty

Maybe I can ask Csaba to combine his SU and lawyer skills in that case...

Carloh

cool work cotty! so you have a 3D printer at home? are there already cheap ones?

hermannausowl

If so, I'm really jealous.
On the Cube 3D, ordered in Dusseldorf, I wait more than a half a year and the payment in advance.

cotty

@carloh said:

:roflmao:
cool work cotty! so you have a 3D printer at home? are there already cheap ones?

No, it was printed by shapeways.

baz

3D printing is going to change the world, and here is a perfect example, that chair would be put on the tip normally, 10 kilos of steel, fabric, plastic, etc. I've done it myself. But now we can repair and indeed improve our material world.
Bring it on.
Baz

pbacot

@baz said:

3D printing is going to change the world, and here is a perfect example, that chair would be put on the tip normally, 10 kilos of steel, fabric, plastic, etc. I've done it myself. But now we can repair and indeed improve our material world.
Bring it on.
Baz

Yes. And for more complicated parts that commonly need replacing, where the manufacturer has no incentive to make and ship to end user, experts might provide digital models for DL by average consumers. Better yet one might scan the old one and make the repair digitally for printing.