Raymarine instrument covers

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The covers for the Raymarine ST60 instruments in my cockpit have mysteriously disappeared.

I'm now looking for replacements. The going rate on eBay seems to be something like £25 each. For a crummy plastic cover!

Has anyone suggestions for alternatives?

Thanks!
 
This regularly comes up. I think as they are no longer made by Raymarine, bar-stewards just nick them from another boat when they lose one!

If you know someone with a 3D printer they would be cheap and easy to print. I believe the instruction file is avalable on the 3D printer websites.

Richard
 
RichardS said:
This regularly comes up. I think as they are no longer made by Raymarine, bar-stewards just nick them from another boat when they lose one!

If you know someone with a 3D printer they would be cheap and easy to print. I believe the instruction file is avalable on the 3D printer websites.

Richard
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I have a 3D printer. However I cannot find the stl file on the usual sites. So what "we" need is someone with a 3D scanner who can scan a cover and then produce the stl file for printing. I doubt that Raymarine would let us have the technical drawings or CAD file

Tudorsailor
 
£25 for a Raymarine....................sounds like a "bargain!"

Over winter hard standing a couple of years ago I lost a Quick chain counter cover. Can't remember the numbers but their first quote was close to £50. I whinged like a pig and they reduced the price to about £35. So who are the real bar-stewards?
 
Erbas said:
Yeah but then everybody will think you've got NASA instruments! <shudder> :D
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At least nobody will nick them. I don't see how they could fit, the lower edge is rounded on the ST60.

Is it not possible to create a 3D model using measurements? I quite like this idea, as the boat name could be incorporated in the model. But is 3D home printing good enough quality now?
 
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I too wonder if one could make a cover just from measurements. My yacht and therefore covers are in Croatia. If anyone has one at home and could measure with a digital micrometer, plus scan a trace of the shape, I can see if Engineering son can convert the drawing to a STL file. I will then have a go at printing.

I also wondered about personalising the covers.

Last thought is the material. I have various colours of PLA which is based on cellulose. I think that this will soften in strong sunlight So I would have to print in nylon, but would need to buy a roll of a suitable colour

So if someone wants to send me dimensions and drawing, I can try and make a prototype. I would then send it back to see if it fits!

TudorSailor
 
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tudorsailor said:
Last thought is the material. I have various colours of PLA which is based on cellulose. I think that this will soften in strong sunlight So I would have to print in nylon, but would need to buy a roll of a suitable colour
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PLA is reasonably good with UV, if you're worried you could always paint it with a Cellulose paint ... steer clear of Acrylic

You can get a plugin for Google Sketchup to create STL files
 
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I haven't got a 3d printer (yet), or an instrument cover to copy as I haven't got a boat (yet) but I can do this:

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and generate STL files if anyone can lend me the right cover to measure and copy. If anyone with a 3D printer wants to give it a go I'm happy to draw up a cover.

Just bear in mind I will be hand measuring, no fancy 3d laser measuring device so might need a couple of iterations to get a final model to clip on.

Unless someone else has the fancy 3d measuring device and can send me the dimensions of course.
 
I have fitted the ghastly NASA covers to my ST60 instruments. They appear to be made of a slightly more flexible plastic than the Raymarine covers, and so they deform to fit the instrument dials. Once fitted they can only be removed with some force, which makes it less likely that they will drop off and blow away, which is what seems to happen to the originals.
 
AntarcticPilot said:
There are at least two different (and incompatible) versions of the ST60 covers. I have three older instruments, where the cover is angular at the corners and one newer one which has rounded corners.
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I'd have thought that so long as suitable plastic sheet can be obtained, fabrication of such a simple shape would be easier than 3D printing. Just need to cut out the flat part with right shape. And a strip of right width, bent around the circumference with help of a heat gun. Then use hot-melt adhesive to join the two?

Or maybe a slab of marine ply and a plunge router to excavate the cavity...

Mike.
 
I thought that I would reactivate this thread to let people know how things have progress

Firstly there is a nice stl "model" of an STL cover. I printed it and it fits perfectly. I then made some covers incorporating the boat's name

There are now newer filaments. ASA (Acrylonitrile Styrene Acrylate ) is UV and weather resistant. It comes in a variety of colours. I have been printing in grey as it kind of matches other Raymarine bits.
An alternative is a flexible filament which is a bit more like rubber. Probably not as weather proof but more like the modern flexible instrument covers. It is heat resistant to 121C
If anyone has questions, please PM

TudorSailor
 
tudorsailor said:
I thought that I would reactivate this thread to let people know how things have progress

Firstly there is a nice stl "model" of an STL cover. I printed it and it fits perfectly. I then made some covers incorporating the boat's name

There are now newer filaments. ASA (Acrylonitrile Styrene Acrylate ) is UV and weather resistant. It comes in a variety of colours. I have been printing in grey as it kind of matches other Raymarine bits.
An alternative is a flexible filament which is a bit more like rubber. Probably not as weather proof but more like the modern flexible instrument covers. It is heat resistant to 121C
If anyone has questions, please PM

TudorSailor
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After my Raymarine C80 Classic chartplotter cover was stolen a few weeks ago I searched for a 3D printer file but couldn't find one. Have you've come across that file by any chance?

Richard
 
RichardS said:
After my Raymarine C80 Classic chartplotter cover was stolen a few weeks ago I searched for a 3D printer file but couldn't find one. Have you've come across that file by any chance?

Richard
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I have not seen this as an .stl. It would be quite a big thing to print. If you could borrow one from a friend I could try to model it in a CAD program

TudorSailor

Afraid not.
 
tudorsailor said:
I have not seen this as an .stl. It would be quite a big thing to print. If you could borrow one from a friend I could try to model it in a CAD program
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A lot of people would bite your hand off for a cover.

There's one on eBay at the moment for over £100 including postage from the USA.
 
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