I 3D Printed a CAR (It can drive)

[@PaulsGarage]

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[@amani576]

This is wild! I imagine for the adults who've actually seen Grease seeing a little miniature version of Greased Lightning must bring a big grin to their faces. Do the girls like it? This is peak dad, too. Great work Paul.

[@PaulsGarage]

Thank!! Yeah, people really like it, I got compliments on it at the competitions if anyone finds out I made it. The judges at these things record voice notes during the dances and then the kids can hear the feedback later, LOTS of them say "OH! It moves!" At the point in the dance where they start driving it lol

[@WoLpH]

Adam Savage once said that actors have crazy strength when it comes to handling props... if you think it's strong enough, it isn't

[@PaulsGarage]

Well the windshield was recently broken by a 2 year old, so perhaps it's just too weak lol

[@simoncleret]

That's how you should treat all objects handled by humans, to be honest. Maximum skookum.

[@krispockell685]

"So, I chopped up the body in twenty pieces..." What am I watching?!

[@PaulsGarage]

Are you a cop? 🤣

[@krispockell685]

@@PaulsGarage 🤣

[@Bargle5]

I've watched many of Adam Savage's vids and he's mentioned several times actors are amazingly hard on props.

[@PaulsGarage]

That makes sense, glad to hear it isn't just me!

[@stoneomountain2390]

A car for kids, yet you show your boss driving it. I have so many stereotype jokes percolating in the back of my mind.

[@quaysky9582]

I did not realize it was possible for you to to work this fast, also dear lord that video was a trip and Im not even on drugs

[@PaulsGarage]

haha it didn't feel very fast! i started building this in October I think.

[@johnmccanntruth]

HUGE “props” to you! You really went above and beyond, and came up with something really amazing. Nice work!

[@PaulsGarage]

Thank you! It was a bit crazy for sure

[@StitchesLovesRats]

Yeah, we don't gotta see a bunch of kids tunning around in some of the stuff they wear in Grease. Good call. ...although, it's always nice to see the gratitude in their eyes.

[@bilbo_gamers6417]

holy shit bro you are like the coolest dad ever. mega win here for this whole video.

[@PaulsGarage]

Thank you!

[@WardFontaine]

Amazing project and great prop dad shirt... but I'm sad it wasn't "PROP POP". 😅

[@PaulsGarage]

!!! They missed some alliteration!! I'll tell the shirt maker lady tomorrow lol. The girls gave me that shirt, underneath prop dad it says "greased Lightning grand champion"

[@HaveAGoAlan]

Wow, that looks like a ton of work!

[@PaulsGarage]

And I cut out most of it lol

[@odellcreations]

I think this is the favorite of mine amongst all the projects you have shown on KZbin. GG!

[@PaulsGarage]

Thank you! It's always good to build stuff for other people I think

[@joell439]

yep - flames out the tail pipes....... get crackin my friend. Seriously, I'm so impressed. 👍👍😎👍👍 15 years from now your daughter will be so much more impressed how much you love her. Especially when you show this video to all her friends at her bridal shower. You're a great dad.

[@michaelg4931]

He's setting his future son-in-law up for a huge pile of misery. His daughter's expectation level is going to be insane.

[@TheDistur]

You're a wizard Paul. I hope they appreciate your work.

[@PaulsGarage]

Thank you! they certainly do appreciate it. I got a car signed by all the girls, a t-shirt (the one i'm wearing in the video, which says "prop dad, greased lightning, grand champion), reimbursement for the resin, and at a dance studio banquet i got thanked (with a gift) for all my work (along with all the costume tailoring my wife did). They are very thankful and i'm glad to help them. I'm also completely exhausted. 🤣

[@steeldamiano]

You did an amazing job. It looks awesome.

[@dfross87]

To answer your question: yes. Props get broken all the time. On "Bullitt" they had a 24h mechanic shop to keep the cars (there were several of each) going while they filmed the chase scene. Which took 3 weeks. Are you enjoying being a 24h car rebuilder? With no backup vehicle?

[@PaulsGarage]

Fortunately this isn't an all day thing 🤣🤣

[@dfross87]

@@PaulsGarage OTOH there's only you, not 3 shifts. And you have a full time job that isn't fixing prop cars.

[@esurfrider7687]

Awesome project Paul! I’m seriously impressed!

[@PaulsGarage]

Thank you! i'm kinda shocked i pulled it off at all to be honest

[@MadMatMetals]

Omg just watching this stressed me out! You get the best dad of the year award!

[@PaulsGarage]

you say "best dad of the year" and i immediately remembered cutting out the seat belts🤣 who needs safety anyway

[@thejunkman]

You know that I ain't braggin' its a real ..... wagon! Go Go Go

[@PaulsGarage]

The lyrics were slightly changed for the kids 🤣

[@thejunkman]

@@PaulsGarage Yeah, I am sure. I forget what the TV edit has them "sing"

[@swdweeb]

Well done dad!

[@PaulsGarage]

Thanks!

[@tinker-craft]

Such dramatic tension!😬 Nicely done, good luck at nationals!!!

[@PaulsGarage]

They will do great!

[@DavidClunie]

If we win regionals, then it's straight on to sectionals, then semis, then semi-regionals, then regional semis, then NATIONAL LOWER ZONE SEMIS!

[@PaulsGarage]

And each step of the way, another entrance fee to pay 😭

[@RubensBudgetCreations]

Ah, we have the same wife I see. Church needs 18 1m diameter flowers: " my husband can make those" Theater school needs 3 sets of mouse ears: "I'll ask my husband, he can make those." Daughter wants a new dress. "Ask your father, he will make one." Etc,etc,etc.

[@PaulsGarage]

Haha yeah i think so! My wife makes the dresses around here but I think that's only because she doesn't know I can sew 🤫

[@RubensBudgetCreations]

@@PaulsGarage we've only got 1 sewingmachine at home and my wife isn't allowed to touch it. It's mine, all mine....whoohahahahahaha.

[@bilbo_gamers6417]

this video is so friggin adorable

[@PaulsGarage]

Thank you!

[@KnexJunkie]

Nice work.

[@PaulsGarage]

Thanks!

[@stevesloan6775]

As for print fails, at 6:48mins, I’d say 0%! Edit.. at 6:56mins. I was bang-on!😂😂😂

[@lmapdfthlmapdfth]

"zero failures" yeah well it also depends on the filament brand and price and you did not indicate that in the description also, looking at your printed surfaces, did you mesh/face/smooth shading the whole thing ?

[@PaulsGarage]

I used a mix of sunlu, atomic, creality and polymaker PLA. All had no failures, but polymaker had garbage print quality on every printer except a prusa. I thought polymaker was good buy idk

[@tobhomott]

Wow!

[@PaulsGarage]

Thanks Tobho!

[@kevinwatson5833]

I recommend xtc 3d print coating it smoothes out any print

[@PaulsGarage]

Thanks for the tip! I'll check that out

[@charliekrauter5176]

@@PaulsGarage XTC is nice stuff. Kind of messy and expensive, but less hellish than Bondo.

[@bobweiram6321]

Cool! I wonder if it would've been faster to make it out of sheetmetal.

[@PaulsGarage]

Lol probably not, I'm not very good at forming complex shapes. Then I would have to do identical but mirrored ones!

[@bobweiram6321]

@@PaulsGarage Paper mache? Doesn't have to be too sturdy.

[@jerrywhidby.]

Instead of straight Bondo try mixing it with resin 50/50. People refer to it as Rondo. It is much easier to spread.

[@PaulsGarage]

I didn't know that, sounds like a good idea

[@mk6595]

Impressive. And I hope it earned you many wife points. The steering wheel through the windshield is forgivable...Like Captain Crunch's eyebrows being on his hat. lol

[@PaulsGarage]

Wait what? His eyebrows are on his hat?!

[@mk6595]

@@PaulsGarage Yep. And you don't notice it until someone points it out. Same went for me too.

[@OFDatTX]

What filament u used bro?

[@PaulsGarage]

Polymaker PLA. I was kinda disappointed, the only printer I have that could print it will is a prusa. I could've saved bondo using something else

[@Convolutedtubules]

Looks kinda cool with the low polygon count.

[@PaulsGarage]

Almost like facets on a gemstone

[@Convolutedtubules]

@@PaulsGarage Sometimes it's just not good enough, when you don't want the polygons to show up. There are setting somewhere for that.

[@MikelNaUsaCom]

now that you have the shape all worked out with plastic, what about sheet metal? or castings?

[@PaulsGarage]

Sheet metal would be quite a lot of work, making all of the curves and stuff. It's beyond my skill level. To cast it I'd have to do a lot of 3d model work to convert it to something castable, but i bet i could use the files to make molds for fiberglass or carbon fiber layup. That might work

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

@@PaulsGarage if you have the skills with the fibreglass I'd think you could just wrap that body shell with it and get a good enough result - no doubt a heap of sanding required that will at times get through the glass and need more work before hand to make it smooth enough (perhaps with your favourite stuff), but it probably only needs a very thin wrap.

[@PaulsGarage]

I would think fiberglass dust is even worse than bondo dust lol. I'd love to make a car body shell in carbon fiber one day, though

[@jerrywhidby.]

Hey Paul do you have an affiliate link for the 3D scanner you used?

[@PaulsGarage]

Yeah here it is shrsl.com/4l2ey it's older but that means its pretty cheap now

[@jerrywhidby.]

@@PaulsGarage thanks Paul. You did an amazing job on that car.

[@watahyahknow]

probably be a good idea to make a frame under the body from say central heating tube , the stuff is zinc coated so make sure you etch that off before welding , ( they use toiletcleaner for that ) the mustard yellow smoke from the coating burning off is verry toxic would and give you a splitting headacke , even then i would weld it outside kzbin.info/www/bejne/haLWeYebrp5oq7M central heating pipe is pretty eazy to bend intoo shape with a hand tubing bender to fit thightly under the body and inside the window frame and the bumpers so even if the thing cracks it should hold together not realy rigit as in you can stand on it but strong enough to prevent the thing from caving in , can even pull/push it back out a few times might be able to use pipe intoo pipe to fit the body over the old hotwheels frame once you epoxied the main frame to the underside of the body , that allows you to transport the prop intoo two pieces so it doesnt snap from being carried around and be light enough to lift to late to order hubcaps i think but you probably be able to 3d print sumting tht fits in place of the original covers (dont realy see the point though the current ones look fine )

[@PaulsGarage]

I planned on making a frame actually. Mostly to make it easier to carry (hold the frame, not the car). But it would've added a lot of weight and the bottom of the powerwheels isn't flat, so it would have been too complicated

[@wolfwind9658]

They typically make multiple props because they get broken, or stolen. Or lost..

[@PaulsGarage]

That makes sense. Too bad this thing is huge!

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

I was expecting at least 1 failure - No failures at all in that many hours is pretty darn good though not unheard of good, and I have no doubt it will have a print failure at some point as there are just too many points of failure for a FDM machine, and even when the machine is absolutely perfect imperfect filament can't always be overcome.

[@PaulsGarage]

Yeah I was shocked. The only explanation I could think of was the industrial machine connection. I've never seen so many ball bearings on everything, nothing has any slop. Most of this project used filament that didnt print well on anything but a prusa printer, and even then I had no print failures. The filament runout sensor and restart features also worked. It's crazy. Like i said though it won't do nylon, it isn't fast, etc, but it does work with incredible reliability.

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

@@PaulsGarage IMO 'fast' for a FDM machine isn't worth worrying about, as 'fast' as FDM can go is still pretty darn slow - when almost every print will take either 1-4 hours or half a day+ you are either going to be sitting around all day to change print job once or twice or just left it to its own devices. (nobody ever seems to make parts that end up in the middle ground time wise, its always a handful of hours or come back tomorrow) So IMO other than a few interesting edge cases where printing faster so the layer time is very low improves layer to layer adhesion or makes the bridges much neater its really not worth worrying about how fast the printer can go, reliability is definitely more valuable.

[@brandonfrancey5592]

​@@foldionepapyrus3441 End of the day if you need fast, the answer is more printers. A second printer would have cut print time half.

[@PaulsGarage]

I totally agree. I actually printed the lights on a much faster printer, but I had to print everything 2 or 3 times. Fast = warping

[@PaulsGarage]

I think this is the right answer. More printers is better than one faster printer

[@ltlbuddha]

Maybe next time, cast it out of bronze? would've held up better. And think of the muscle you'd have built carrying that up a escalator...

[@PaulsGarage]

There aren't enough spine surgeons in the world to help me after that 🤣

[@somebodyelse6673]

@@PaulsGarage - Well, there's inspiration to make your powered exoskeleton?

[@PaulsGarage]

@@somebodyelse6673 sounds like a plan!

[@elitearbor]

You better not have downloaded that design, mister! "You wouldn't pirate a car." 🤣 Edit: NONE of your prints failed? That's... go get you a lottery ticket. I'm stunned. Edit 2: "Is this how movie props are, actors keep breaking them?" Yes. Yes, it is. Generally, if it's at all avoidable, there's never just one of any prop made due to damage being anticipated.

[@PaulsGarage]

Hey I didn't pirate it, I paid for it 🤣🤣 and yeah I'm amazed the prints all worked. It wouldve been a nightmare if they would fail after 50 hours or something, so much material and time lost. Fortunately it worked!

[@andyspoo2]

A life lesson from an old fart....NEVER volunteer for anything EVER! It will always come back to haunt you.

[@PaulsGarage]

What about "being volunteered for" something? 🤣

[@andyspoo2]

@@PaulsGarage I guess that was the wife? Can you cast a quieter one 😁

[@thejunkman]

​@PaulsGarage no good ded will go unpunished. Wait for MAD Max the musical and they need 5 cars to function and do stunts off of.

[@lmapdfthlmapdfth]

why the fuck is your 3d model pink/blue like that that's not a good sign...yet great work dude

[@PaulsGarage]

It looks crazy like that in blender if it is a thin part (has inner and outer faces, both walls close together) and you zoom out. It's REALLY annoying to work with, but at least blender is free

[@Ron-rs2zl]

Stress much?

[@PaulsGarage]

It's my middle name. Also first and last name.

[@brandonfrancey5592]

@@PaulsGarage Sorry to hear that Mr. Much.

[@ski4jeepin]

I'm sensing that future you is in deep doo!

[@PaulsGarage]

He always is