Getting my nephew a racing rig and wondering if this is possible

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He loves his G25 shifter and was wondering if I could take it apart, have the two halves laser scanned, and then machine the two halves and inner mechanisms out of a solid block of aluminum to create a super limited edition G25 shifter with more realistic sounds? Would be a fun project.

Thoughts?
 
I suppose that the two outer 'shells' could be scanned. Internally (from what I can recall) there isn't much in there that you could make from aluminium that would improve the realism. The gate on the shifter is the only thing that guides the gear stick.

Would be interesting to see if you could do this! 👍
 
Yeah I was hoping to make the out case metal and the inner working all metal, give it more weight.

Anybody that works in metallurgy, can you chime in?

thanks
 
Anything is of course possible, my brother works for an aerospace company designing and making things with cnc machines from aluminium and from what I know something like this, as a one off, would be massively expensive.... we are talking 5k upwards. I asked him to make me some pedal faces and even those were into the hundreds....
 
Lol ya I was gonna say what that other guy said in that this sounds so insanely cool but probably the price of a used car. Scanning parts than making it out of solid aluminum will quite the pretty penny. It would probably be easier to get a real shifter from a car and attach the electronics into that. A shifter doesn't do much so I highly doubt there is that much inside. If you are a millionaire do your idea and please please post the pics here after its done but if not this may be just the thought that counts.
 
Thanks guys, I don't understand why its so expensive since we had prototyping machines at my old job and I would give the guy running them anything really and he'd show up the next week with a little plastic version of what we put into the laser scanner. I had him make me some Starship Enterprise's when I was there all made from a Enterprise toy we put in the scanner. Total cost? Zero dollars. LOL

Oh well, guess I'll try something else.
 
The reason things are so expensive when it come to thing like this is because for the time it would take, machine and man, to produce such an item the machine could be put to use making thousands of £/$ worth of parts....time really is money. The difference between metal and plastic machining is that one small mistake in the programme would obliterate the cutter when working with metal.
 
the majority of the cost would actually come from the creation of the cnc programing to produce a one off part - the other costs are from the block of billet aluminum.
most large companys would not even consider doing it unless you place an order in the hundreds to make it profitable.
 
One idea, if you are serious about doing this, is to head over to a site like http://cnczone.com/ Basically it's a forum where people talk about CNC stuff, and there are many many DIY guys over there. It's possible you might find someone interested in helping you out with this. :) I'm sure they'd love the challenge...
 
I'll check it out. I really want to do something with the G25 shifter though. I like the design and I like that its sequential and H. I just hate the loose feel.
 

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