TWeatherford
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Hey guys, looking for ideas.
I'm a mechanical engineering major, in my second design class. I have an assignment coming up where I have to invent something. It needs to be something small, be only one part, preferably plastic but could possibly be machined (and I would just print a model on a 3d plastic printer). I know the IDI isn't really easy to get aftermarket parts for, so I thought I'd check for some ideas here.
Last year, one of my friends made some "vents" for his Jeep. Jeep did not provide any heater vents that point towards the people on some Wranglers, they only had the vents to warm up the windshield. This results in cold people. So he printed two clip on vents that redirected half of the warm air off the windshield and toward the people. That is something like what I want to make.
I was thinking possibly a two gauge pod for the steering column, or possibly a four gauge pillar pod, for my truck, since I would like both and I don't think they're available. Last night I was thinking how I'd like to have a cupholder that would sit on my dash, cause I have a bench seat (which I really like). Any other ideas? Anything that would be just really nice to have. I was thinking of something like a transmission adapter, or something fancy like that but I think that is out of the scope of this assignment.
I'm a mechanical engineering major, in my second design class. I have an assignment coming up where I have to invent something. It needs to be something small, be only one part, preferably plastic but could possibly be machined (and I would just print a model on a 3d plastic printer). I know the IDI isn't really easy to get aftermarket parts for, so I thought I'd check for some ideas here.
Last year, one of my friends made some "vents" for his Jeep. Jeep did not provide any heater vents that point towards the people on some Wranglers, they only had the vents to warm up the windshield. This results in cold people. So he printed two clip on vents that redirected half of the warm air off the windshield and toward the people. That is something like what I want to make.
I was thinking possibly a two gauge pod for the steering column, or possibly a four gauge pillar pod, for my truck, since I would like both and I don't think they're available. Last night I was thinking how I'd like to have a cupholder that would sit on my dash, cause I have a bench seat (which I really like). Any other ideas? Anything that would be just really nice to have. I was thinking of something like a transmission adapter, or something fancy like that but I think that is out of the scope of this assignment.