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Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 9:42 am
by josh2109
Hi all,
I’m after the piece of trim that lives here:
Mine departed during some recent motorway testing.
A green cover would be ideal, but any colour will do as I am happy to paint it.
Cheers,
Josh
Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2025 11:38 am
by Julianw
Another reason I'm tempted to get into the 3D printing malarkey - these are all now rather brittle bits of plastic! I'll check my stash when I get to the back of my garage. In the meantime, good luck securing one
Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side
Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:49 am
by Southerneruk
I have a 3d printer, not used at the moment, just not had time to study the build program as yet, but it can be plugged into the internet for a peer to peer use, so if anyone else as the knowledge to be able to operate it over the internet, you are well come to use it
Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:55 pm
by josh2109
Thanks folks, I’ve now got a replacement here with me.
RE 3d printing: I have a 3d printer, but the time and effort it would take to model this panel from scratch would’ve been too much in my opinion, at least when a replacement was under £20 shipped!
Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:43 am
by Southerneruk
That's why I am thinking about getting 3D scanner for the printer, it will cut out all that hassle
Re: Wanted: Scuttle Panel End Cap, Driver’s Side
Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:35 am
by josh2109
From what I’ve seen in terms of consumer level equipment, the scans will still need a lot of clean up and re-working to get a useable model.
It would be interesting to see if it’s faster to work from a scan that needs refining, or using reference images to create a sketch.
Either way, on cheap items I’m unsure that it’s worth it. For things like the sidelights though, the time and effort could be worthwhile.