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Originally Posted by Origineelreclamebord
Hehe, anodized aluminium would look awesome indeed  The 3D printing is not very marketable currently because many people don't believe it can be strong enough, so to make it sell well it needs to be aluminium (even if in actual functionality it wouldn't matter much - or at all).
The only problem to manufacturing these shock towers is that I can't afford the investment to stock a good load of them (which is what makes any of the manufacturing options cheap). |
MOQ investment will always be an issue with manufacturing. I think that with a 2:1 ratio of the turnbuckle mounts, you might find that the aluminum parts will be cheaper on your BOM than the carbon fiber, especially at the thicknesses you're talking about.