Originally Posted by
Darkgenerals
From all of the reading I've done, printed parts in the most common material pla are to weak for any normal usage. Unless you have one of the more exotic printers, it's only good for low stress or rapid prototyping
this morning i did a bit of looking up and (as billdelong mentions) a lot has changed over the last few years with also many different materials (not just pla)
2013 - only good for prototypes and low stress (no real useful applications for RC)
2017 - good price, good tech, good materials, (a lot of good uses for rc's)
although i may have to put a disclaimer in here - where i read good uses may have been for planes and drones
Originally Posted by
billdelong
but you can theoretically produce parts on par with Traxxas/Tamiya quality, just not RPM quality.
this is the impression i get as well with the current tech
Originally Posted by
Darkgenerals
your parts would be too weak for something like ARMS, pivot joints, shock towers, ETC....
high stress points (probably), but is everything a high stress point on a RC, or different rc's like rock crawlers that are slower?