3D Print Sega Blast City Service Door

[Desert_Dweller_88]

I started this journey with picking up a Sega blast city cab that came with the wrong sized service door. The only option for replacement was importing one from a seller that has a really bad track record. Not wanting to waste my time and money I decided to design a basic door, that through trial and error, fits securely and close enough. My main focus on doing this was to prevent my 3 year old son and dogs from climbing inside.

Listed below is the link to thingiverse that has the top and bottom door .stl files. I hope this helps folks out in the candy cab community.

Public Copy Blast City Service Door - Rev C (Top & Bottom Door)

Instructions listed in the link

Rev A door next to Rev B door

Rev C door

 

[skusuma]

How did you put together top and bottom pieces?

 

[Desert_Dweller_88]

How did you put together top and bottom pieces?

I used a clamp (to hold the two pieces together and keep aligned) and soldering iron to melt/fuse the prints together on the back, front and sides.

 

[skusuma]

I see, the material is metal. I thought it was plastic. Awesome.

 

[Desert_Dweller_88]

I see, the material is metal. I thought it was plastic. Awesome.

Sorry I'm a bit confused by your statement, the material is a PLA filament that is a plastic and not a metal. Though it would be awesome to print metal

 

[skusuma]

Oh I didn't know you can fuse together plastic material together with iron. I'm not that knowledgable about this.

 

[Desert_Dweller_88]

Oh I didn't know you can fuse together plastic material together with iron. I'm not that knowledgable about this.

No worries, you use the soldering iron tip to touch both pieces of plastic. This causes them to melt together and create a strong bond.

 

[skusuma]

Interesting. Did you do like in this youtube video

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HjSz5hRb0E?

 

[skusuma]

The guy made bevel surface on the join surface of both plastics then filled the surface with the filament of same material.

 

[Desert_Dweller_88]

The guy made bevel surface on the join surface of both plastics then filled the surface with the filament of same material.

That's actually pretty smart, I just line them up and clamp them together so both printed items are making contact and I go down with the soldering iron. I melt the back of the door a bit more to get a stronger bond and also no one will likely see it.

For the one that I have painted:

1. I sanded the surface to make sure there was no raised edges from the melting process.
2. Filled the trench and surrounding area with bondo
3. Sand again
4. prime with auto primer
5. Sand again
6. Another coat of primer
7. Light sand
8. Paint

 

[skusuma]

Good information. Thank you for sharing these tips and the 3d printing files.