MOPED ARMY

Flexing might be a problem while it's cooling. But it could work if you added alotta supports you would need to sand off after...

It would take alotta cleanup probably, you would also need one hell of a printer to do it all in one piece.

If you had the files it would be super sweet to cnc some outta aluminum to. But that big boy bucks there.

While small scale 3d printing has come a long way, that size is still hi-$, manufacturing proto type thing.

I wish it were more accessible because I'm also in that situation rn.

I mean they didn't have CAD but they had full scale industrial production processes at their disposal, which we do not

You aren't gonna make 1000000 of them.

I carved a wooden block and mandrel to correct a few dents in my Simplex fenders .

But , for doing a new fender or other contoured 'covers', I'd want an English wheel :

Selection of material is most important with too.

Witlle the form from glued blocks of hardwood burn away excess cut metal then just repeativly hit it. It mopeds not rocket science use copper sheet. Nice and thick the hand hammered copper when it patina s it would look cool. But in NYC a scrapper would steal it for crack money.

Scooter used to bang shit together outta sheetmetal and weld, then fiberglass & bondo when it needed to be pretty. probably cheapest and most accesible route,

2nd would be molding outta cheap wood and cutting/gluing a form, then fiberglassing it.

3d printing is cool and kinda pricier and specialized but most colleges have community access equipment at low cost. Getting the dimensions right is a lot harder without a physical duplicate though. like you can't design on computer and mock it up at the same time so it'd probably take some serious trial and error.

also theyre a little big for most avoilable units, even a 1 foot cub printer is kinda on the larger side and most covers are longer than that diagonal

I actually do have the parts I want to reproduce! Reason I would want to remake them is that they're cracked, and have small bits broken off. I figured that would make it a lot easier to mock up in a program than having nothing. But It doesnt really seem feasible in the end. Ah well, maybe in another 5 years lol

Wow I have a state of the art. Manufacturing robot it can tie shoes....

you should always have your feet on the pedals while riding. super unsafer otherwise, I've seen people catch a pedal in a turn at rallies riding with their feet on the covers. easy way to wreck yourself

that's how the 3D printed front fairing is setup. the files are on thingiverse

Scooters have plastic footplates. I'm sure a moped can have one. I'm not sure how strong a 3d printed one would be though.

I whittled sidecover out of wood for a Tomos For a sideshot a35 a3. 1 x 4 and trim drill Gilligan it steamed bamboo...

from what i'm reading , i think the easiest/fastest/cheapest way to do it would be

1) take the current fender and using hot glue, wood, masking tape turn it into a 'positive' mold

2) using a hand-lay fiberglass make a 'negative' mold on the outer surface

3) lay the new part up inside the 'negative' mold

if you do it that way it wont be as nice as doing a pressure set 2 part mold "the right way" but you'll still get a reasonable quality copy at 1/10 the work of doing a full 2 part mold with a wooden buck. you might be able to get creative with spray foam and blocking and masking tape and make a hokey inner mold just good enough to put some pressure on there. i've done some raggety-ass shit by literally just stuffing rags wrapped in masking tape into cavities to put pressure on the inside of a mold. i was also thinking the other day about maybe using baloons for something like this? like clown ballons wrapped in rags and taped into place?

i dunno fiberglass is pretty easy, if you can do paper mache, you can do fiberglass. i've made some janky shit come out pretty ok looking.