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Originally Posted by ruf
I'd look into anodized aluminum for the turnbuckle mounts. It will be a lot more cost effective than 3D printing in the long run, and if you design it symmetrically, you can effectively halve your minimum order quantity. In addition, the Tamiya crowd tends to be particularly fond of light blue anodization which would greatly increase the marketability of the product. Just my $0.02.
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Hehe, anodized aluminium would look awesome indeed
The 3D printing is not very marketable currently because many people don't believe it can be strong enough, so to make it sell well it needs to be aluminium (even if in actual functionality it wouldn't matter much - or at all).
The only problem to manufacturing these shock towers is that I can't afford the investment to stock a good load of them (which is what makes any of the manufacturing options cheap).