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I had 2 different prototype parts made at a local printing shop of the white sun visor 3 tab retainer and they both instantly failed. He made them our of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (I think that's what he said) and it's way too brittle. I have one good one and I'm going to spend $250 for a new GM visor. I have the ring retainers from Bill and and they look nice. There is a need for the white 3 tab retainers
I had 2 different prototype parts made at a local printing shop of the white sun visor 3 tab retainer and they both instantly failed. He made them our of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (I think that's what he said) and it's way too brittle. I have one good one and I'm going to spend $250 for a new GM visor. I have the ring retainers from Bill and and they look nice. There is a need for the white 3 tab retainers
Nice!! You've already done a lot of the hard work by scanning in the dimensions. Now, we just need to keep trying different plastics.
I feel that part really needs to be injection molded in nylon probably. Those tabs are my concern as well. I offered to give it a try, but now seeing it assembled, that part takes most of the stress of the visor.
Do you have an STL file from your attempt? Other than material issues, do feel like it’s dimensionally correct? There is a bidding platform integrated city Fusion360 that may offer injection molding services.
This whole concept didn't work. The guy I was working with re-modeled it and was going to print it out of Titanium. I stopped communicating as I think he either got busy or it didn't work. I have come to really hate H2 visors. I have them all back together with all the OEM hardware except for the 3D printed retaining ring and I think I'm going to need a screw as well.
I would love to have that section of the H2 cut from a wreck to work out a complete replacement retrofit assembly. It is such an awful design (maybe it was inexpensive and made assembly at the plant easy). Eliminate all that plastic and machine something out of aluminum with brass inserts possibly. I know it would be expensive, be it would be a permanent fix and maybe even enable the use of a more available visor as well. Anyone have one and a torch handy let me know.
Recreating this would not be too difficult, but looking at those clips I'm not sure structurally it would hold up without significant redesign. I would be willing to give it a shot for anyone that has a broken one they could send me. Preferably someone in the US and Florida would be even better.
Did you ever try rebuilding these and how did it go
Did you ever try rebuilding these and how did it go
No, I have yet to even see one of these assemblies firsthand. All of my work on the round retainer was through a friend of a friend of mine. It only took one iteration printed in PLA to test the design, then I produced them in ASA to deal with the heat of a vehicle in South Florida. I have since improved them to a Version 2 design, basically adding additional support to the tabs. Out of the 200+ I have sold (locally and on other platforms), I had 5 failures upon installation. The changes were to address this. I also experienced some failures in pre-shipment stress testing (basically flexing the tabs with my fingers before I shipped them). I have had no issues since, and I replaced any that were broken by customers at no charge.
I still wonder if that other part printed in ASA could work, it is a bit more flexible than Carbon.
