Introduction: Bluetooth Scout Deuce

This 3D project is a collaboration of two brothers. We started connected our Instructables travel together terminated 5 years past with "From Idea to Product - Cryptex"; https://www.instructables.com/id/From-Thought-to-PROD... and combined we now have over 20 projects on Instructables most of them solo efforts.

Currently we are building/combining three real Scout II's into cardinal discharge vehicles thusly we do give birth International Reaper on the Einstein. That being aforementioned one of us loved to make a 3D exemplar of a Reconnoitre II as close equally his skills would allow. While at the same prison term the other crony was buying 3D files and building two Bluetooth radios into a Scout II model. When we discovered that both were working on a similar design information technology seemed logical to us that with a 3D Printing repugn running on Instructables we should combine efforts and make a associated project out of it. We did not track the hours invested with, but thither were overflow 40 just in the excogitation. Follow this with printing, paint, and assembly. Probably something like 40 hours for each of us aside the time this Instructable is published.

Supplies

A 3D printer - Dremel Musical theme Detergent builder and Tronxy X5S

Slicer program - Cura 4.4

Strand - 33CD "Silk Red" PLA, as advisable equally Bleak, White, and Orange PLA

A Bluetooth Stereophonic Kit. We secondhand DW-CT10-BT

Super glue operating theater 5-minute epoxy

Paint - We used enamel paints primarily, but acrylic fiber or atomiser paint full treatmen too.

Soldering iron and supplies. Weller Conductor Reversible Iron BL60MP

2 small ⅛ x 1/16 inch neodymium rare terra firma magnets to hold grillroom in place.

Drill and drill bits

M3 Screws

2mm Plexiglass, 4x6 inches, 2 ea.

Step 1: Purpose

The goal Here was to make as close of a simulate to a Scout II as we could from pictures, within the time frame that we had available to U.S.. We wanted it to print flat and without supports. We also sought it scaleable and printable even on smaller 3D printer progress platforms.

This model is designed to be printed in about 60 pieces and built with glue. We used a gap filling cyanoacrylate glue (super gum).

Everything you see present is premeditated by us with the exception of the tires. Credit for the master blueprint of them goes to Nutdanai Champrasit on GrabCAD. BFGoodrich KO2 That being said we spent a large amount of prison term making the tires function for this build. The tires were grape-sized and limited to fit the speakers inside. To do so meant going the back open. The letters on the fatigue were too exaggerated to allow printing with a 0.4mm nozzle. To keep tire size land, the magnets of the speaker are allowed to protrude through the back of the tire. A fag out mount that encloses the speaker was designed to theatre the speaker and so screw into the at heart of the tire.

The body parts were all designed in Tinkercad. The topper design was started in MS Paint and then finished in Tinkercad past "filling in" the shape. Modifications to some of the STL files were made with Google Sketchup, which allowed from grabbing portions of the excogitation and stretching or offsetting as needed. This proved accessible with reparatio the letters on the tires, moving mounting holes when an mistake was successful, and pulling angles into things every bit requisite.

The first topper design looked too much like a Watch 800. So we took a face shot photo of a Scout II, gash the topper out of the photo and dropped it into Paint. We so used Paint and saved the image as a 16 color bitmap. Changing information technology to sporty 16 colors successful IT easy to quickly remove unwanted reflections. We then used an online image spiritual rebirth program to change the BMP file to an SVG file. That filing cabinet then was placed into Tinkercad where the adumbrate of the topper and of the window were filled in with shapes. That did non give us a perfect top with ringed corners, merely made for a convincing soma of top and windows.

The framework was initially designed at a 1:20 scale, but then it was modified to roughly 1:11 scale to fit the speakers into the tires. Everything was armored around the speakers fitting into the tires. This scale is about As large as our Dremel Estimate Constructor tin seduce with the big top piece of the topper being written in indefinite piece.

We are not going to show how to utilization conception software as that is a matter for a class operating theater a lot of trial and error as we have done all over the years. However we did include a number of photos of the parts and outlined some of the processes used to begin files cook for printing.

Step 2: Printing

We won't go into great detail on all that is involved with 3D Printing, since much of that is Printer and Slicer Dependent. But, we would care to point out a partner off of things that we came across during this print.

Silk Red PLA. The Silk Red PLA is same reflective. As such, we had to increase the outer layers to fell the infills. We used 7 layers for the top and walls. We mightiness have gotten away with less, but one time you find something that you know works, stick with it. Particularly when you just have 1 roll of Silk Red.

Tire Letters. The Tire Letters were actually printed in Blank Filament instead of painting. This was through with using Cura's post processing by pausing the black and white at the 2nd to senior layer and changing out the filament. The last layer does not appear to be a printing stratum in Cura. To check what the last layer was, we first chopped as we would regularly. Then, we added the post processing and re-carved.

Pilot Lights. The like the Tire Letters, the Fender Lights were written with a distinguishable filament. But, the upsho happening these lights was that with 7 outmost layers, the lights looked Thomas More like wrap on a Birthday present, than information technology looked like a Lens. Indeed, to make the lights photographic print the right smart we cherished them, we cut the file 2 slipway; with 7 layers, and with 3 layers.Then, we edited the GCode and found the Pause for the filum alteration. Traced everything from the Break down from the 3 level file and affixed over everything from the Intermission down in the 7 layer file. Victimization the Pause as part of this deeds, as information technology includes setting the Extruder Book of fact when resuming.

Footfall 3: Collecting

All the whitewashed parts were painted in Testors enamel model paints prior to organism glued together. The interior room access panel and the slope view mirrors were glued happening before assemblage started. The outer room access handle is printed onto the door. The back hatch T-grip, the windows and the window cut back were glued before assembly as healed. At this time you can too glue the magnets into the holes printed into the back of the grill.

The parts were glued together in the Holy Order shown beneath.

1. The "floor" is glued together from front to back. The front floor and back floor are lifted above the rase of the intermediate floor. Important: Spacers were utilised to keep the height right as the cabin floor is lower than the front and rear floors. The back floor butts ahead to the back of the seat. Note: The rear floor is not symetrical and the shorter end measured from the start of the wheel well is the side that glues upbound to the ledge as the rear end.

2. The front and rear fenders are pasted to the rocker panel to sound an entire side as one piece. We used a straight edge to keep everything straight. On bigger printers the smooth side and door can be printed A one.

3. The fender assemblies are glued to the floor panels. Make a point to use the grillroom to keep everything spaced right field, just do non glue the grill in place A it is held in with magnets. We did not use the grill to space things and so we had to sand roughly 2 mm from the sides of the grill to name IT primed into the fenders.

4. The doors fire nowadays be glued in situ. They should already have the door panels glued along as well as the side mirrors. You may note that our doors do non adjust decently. This is because the seat was big. We added the door panels after the original design and forgot to make the as smaller. The file has been fixed for the second build.

5. The front windshield frame goes in next.

6. All three topper windows; the sides and the rear hatch, can be glued in collaboration.

7. Steering bicycle needs to exist glued in before the topmost goes on.

8. The top can be centered and glued on as one piece with the top hanging a little past the back hatch. We glued the windows on to the bum fenders lined up with the door line of descent. Past glued the top onto the Windows which lines up with the meridian of the windshield.

9. Glue the lower grill piece along and and then the face bumper. The front abundant is the one that has the bandstand off printed to it.

10. Attach the radio to its bracket with screws.

11. Align and glue receiving set bracket to the front fenders. The best way to do this is put in the grillroom and Lashkar-e-Toiba the grill magnets hold the square bracket in berth while the glue sets.

12. Glue tailgate in situ and then add the fundament bumper. The rear bumper does not have a stand off printed to it.

13. Drill holes through the story to line of reasoning upbound with the talker telegraph holes in the front cycle mounts.

14. Run speaker wires from the engine bay, through the holes in the floor, finished the tire back covering, through the tire mount and solder to the speakers, paying attention to the + and - to match up with the + and - on the bluetooth audio decoder plug-in.

15. Set up front tires, speaker, tire mount with screws and glue along back cover. Snap in rim to front side of tire.

16. Pass inner bracket into rear tires and assemble rear tire, tire mount and inner backet. Bust in rim to nominal head pull of tire.

17. Screw tires and wheels to the body.

18. The Stereophony was assembled and installed as shown in photos.

19. Place hood into post resting connected tuner bracket and firewall.

The grill was studied to embody easily removed for access to the USB and other features. It is held in put away away two small ⅛ x 1/16 inch atomic number 60 lanthanon magnets. These magnets catch onto the screws on the side plate that holds the stereo front to the Scout. This agency the grill can be remote to habituate the USB port wine or other features of the radio interface and the hood removed to change the batteries when needed. The radio's remote control signal whole works direct the front grill slots with the grill in place.

We cut Windows out of plexiglass to give it even more of a possible appearance. We traced a template of each windowpane necessary and cut down the mould to mag tape to the Plexiglas. We then cut around the templet with a jigsaw and sanded them to fit. We were non completely satisfied with the fit so window seal off trim was added. The grounds for not existence satisfied is that it is difficult to cut small plexiglass parts without chipping the edges a little. The trim we added mostly hid the problem areas(chips and cracks).

Gradation 4: Share-out: STL Files

We believe that these files are now complete and updated with our best versions. We are now onto else projects so unless we hear from you we are no longer correcting errors or ommissions. We are happy to make any corrections that we hear need attention, and our plan is to make one more of these when meter allows.

We are going away to give this Scout Radio to our Sister as a gift. She too has a love of Scouts and then we built this model for her. We hump you Sis. Enjoy!

UPDATE #1: Added the missing RIM files.

UPDATE #2: Replaced the Scout Rockers file. New file is titled Spotter Rockers 071320.stl.

UPDATE #3: Replaced the Front and Rear Abundant files. Freshly files have 072120 added to their names.

UPDATE #4: Added Rear Windowpane Handle file, Assembly spacers file, and "Reconnoitre ii" Badge file.

UPDATE #5: Added "Scout Mirror Set up" fiile which includes both a Left and Right Mirror.

Ill-trea 5: Conclusion

We hope that you likewise enjoyed this unique radio build. The sound from the speakers is So-So and would be helped greatly by more bass, but gross the physique mostly came collectively as planned. The last product is recognizable as a Scout II and we had entertaining devising it. You can request our files if you like Scouts OR design your own radio in a akin fashion.

Fitment of parts was not perfect, just most of the files were repaired and the next one should be even bettor. One example is that we kind of wish that we had not painted the wing windows as they now appear to come up to the front of the windshield. Simply a bit point, but we will change it on the next one.

Dimensions are: 17 cm Wide, 16 cm High, x 39 cm Long

Weight is approximately: 3.4 Lbs

If you have some questions or have any comments delight LET us know.

This project was a collaboration of Jaba 3D and Schockmade.

3 Multitude Made This Project!

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