I’ve had my Miraco for several months now and am finally getting around to posting some of the projects I’ve used it for. I purchased a scanner mostly for reverse engineering parts and creating custom vehicle parts.
Backcountry ski binding fix:
Last project of mine has been for my backcountry ski bindings. I had a small piece that broke and then disappeared from my binding, resulting in them not working properly. This is an older Dynafit binding and its hard to find parts without buying used/broken ones to scavenge from. So I did what any good engineer would do and 3d printed some new parts. Here is the part that was broken and missing on my other ski
I started by pulling apart the binding to get to the remaining part out so I could scan it. This is a very small part, seen next to a US Dime for comparison. I scanned it on the turn table with some other objects on there in feature mode. This allowed me to capture it. I was actually surprised how well the Miraco did with this considering the size.
I’ve played with QuickSurface for reverse engineering but still struggle a little bit with getting it to do what I want. For this project I used Xtract3D plugin within Solidworks to reverse engineer.
After printing a few test pieces and tweaking out of PLA, I printed the final parts out of PETG-CF on my Bambu A1. It came out great and allowed me to fix my bindings.
I had to fix the vacuum valve on my faucet outside. Its hard to get the the plastic piece in there without using pliers and chewing up the outside. So I Scanned the part and made a 3d printed piece to screw it on.
I had bought some tail lights for my truck off of amazon but didn’t realize they were the type you were supposed to cut a hole for and do not flat mount. The return window came and went and I was stuck with some lights I didn’t quite have a way to mount up like I wanted. I figured this would be a good scanner project. Here is the original light, the 3d printed housing, and the final product.
