Finally ended up finding the seatpost clamp for my carbon Italian Bottecchia SP9, the company directly and through the resellers couldn’t help me. Ended up emailing an affiliate mechanic/bike store and they helped me locate it. I’m now trying to create this part myself if possible? better make myself or buy? it’s 50€ euros plus extra for shipping.
anyone have any pointers as to who I can contact to get it remade? any scanning stuff available to help?
thanks
by Aggravating_Tap_8841
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Of course it’s possible. Any local CNC shop ought to be able to help. But whether it’ll work out much cheaper than you’ve been quoted is debatable: Someone’s got to be paid, yeah?
Pcbway.com will cnc anything but you’ll need a detailed technical drawing. Im not sure if you do any 3d modeling.
That part appears (from the photographed angles we can see) to be simple enough to model in CAD w/o scanning. I see nothing there that a ruler, calipers, and a protractor won’t solve. But, if you need to ask that *and if you don’t have the part in hand*, then it’s a no go.
It also looks like one could infer the dimensions pretty closely from the seat post, seat tube, and photos of the part, but I’d want to have a 3D printer at my beck and call to iterate through final fitting if I were going to infer the dimensions instead of measure a known part.
I would make it in two parts, the “triangular” bar and the slotted plate. I’d bet it broke at the slot, yeah? Steel would be easiest, or brass, joined with brazing.