What do you think of my knob !

S@njay said:
Very swish, and you can appreciate that some guy has spent a good few hours on a CNC machine milling a solid block of alluminium into that.

And when it gets dirty, remove the o-rings, give a good clean and put some new o-rings on, good as new!
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Aint a CNC automated, i.e. programed and then alls you do is debur? In which case childs play.

Not worth $100 period
 
Firestar_3x said:
I hate to say it but......

Your knob offends me, for that price you could have had a nice momo or something?
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Pah ! Momo Schomo, common as muck and totally max power - ahh - forgot, I've got a Momo air leather at the moment :D
 
thepharcyde said:
Aint a CNC automated, i.e. programed and then alls you do is debur? In which case childs play.
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Exactly. An operator needs to write the program (or run the design through a post-processor). Then he needs to stick a cylinder of aluminum in the lathe. He starts the program and it'll drill the hole down the center using the tailstock. The machine will halt and wait for the operator to flip the part so the hole is toward the chuck. He'll restart it and it'll do the the cutting then the finish pass. It'll then switch to a cut-off tool to make the grooves for the O-rings. Finally it will cut off the part at the base. The operator will slide on the O-rings and chuck it in a bin for shipping.

All in all, about 20 mins from start to finish if the guy's slow and the machine is slower. A high-speed machine could cut it in a matter of seconds.
 
I could make that in about an hour without a CNC machine, if not less.

The acetal (Delrin) would cost ~£2.

If the guy is making that on CNC, it'd take no more than a couple of minutes, ally a bit longer, brass similar. Rip off IMO.
 
At the end of the day though all the talk of how long it would take and how much it would cost is completely irrelevant to anyone who either doesn't have access to the equipment (like 99% of the public) or access to it but no idea how to use it (like me :o )

Having said that its not something I would go for. I lost sleep over the fact that I paid £10 for an XSi gear knob for my 306 :o
 
Black with O rings - decided I'm getting an alu one and get it anodized :)

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instead of getting it ordered form the states im sure you could take that picture to a local machine shop and they'd knock you something up for half the price

worth a try

quite like it but theres things id need to buy first before i could splash that much on a gear knob lol
 
andy8271 said:
things id need to buy first before i could splash that much on a gear knob lol
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Heh, for me it would be a car worthy of a new gear knob. ;)


The only specialised gear knob I've ever had was an 8 ball that I drilled and sunk a threaded anchor into.

Looked cool as hell, but was murder in the California sun in a topless Jeep.....
 
Well that looks totally out of place, it doesn't match or suit the rest of the interior at all and really looks a bit daft. Solid alu meats cheap plastic console :(

Should have got a nice STi one or something.
 
[TW]Fox said:
Well that looks totally out of place, it doesn't match or suit the rest of the interior at all and really looks a bit daft. Solid alu meats cheap plastic console :(

Should have got a nice STi one or something.
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Ahh but it won't be when this arrives from Japan - Forester Sti black rubberised dash panel :D

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