JVC RC M90 Knobs?

[ScottSpeed]

Hello folks! Hope everyone is doing well and loving life!

Anyhow I have been in the market for a M90 from JVC for awhile now. I had noticed awhile back when coming across a few examples that were missing knobs I was able to find replacements from "Shapeways". However checking again now shows nothing from Shapeways or any other vendor for that matter. Whats odd too is that you can search on Shapeways for the M90 knobs and it will show search results but when clicked on you are brought to the shapeways homepage with nothing regarding the knobs.

Does anyone have any idea what happened there and why they are no longer offered? I am asking as being able to source replacements is a good thing to know when looking a radio thats missing a knob or two.

Thank you kindly good people of Boomboxery!
Regards,
Lincoln

 

[Fatdog]

I saw that the M90 knobs, among other parts, were listed by Analog Alley. You need to get with @Superduper here and see if he has any knowledge of Shapeways being messed up. It appears that they are having issues with Cloudflare content hosting.

 

[caution]

Those were my designs. Shapeways went bankrupt a few weeks ago.
Their site is still up, but the ordering process no longer functions.
Unfortunately there is no other site that has a "marketplace" where you can post your designs and let others order them.
To avoid intellectual property theft, the designs were taken down before the site goes down for good.

 

[Fatdog]

Well, that sucks. Hey @caution , have you given thought to maybe printing those yourself and making them available?

 

[caution]

Probably not, but I'll continue to look for ways to get these parts available again

 

[aiwapanasonic]

@caution, I'm also interested in a couple of M90 knobs.

 

[Transistorized]

Probably not, but I'll continue to look for ways to get these parts available again

The first thing I did was try to find the account on shapeways to see all the available 3D parts and their price. Heck, even my account came up missing. Once I logged in again, I noticed everything was gone. Dang! That sucks. Sometimes I would look just to see what was available. I found the parts to be interesting. Almost like going to the mall. I hate that happened.

Edit:
Thanks for the new link in the other post.

 

[Superduper]

Shapeways went belly up, and was then resurrected by pretty much the same people. (Business shell game playing? who knows.). But the store portion which allowed vendors to post their designs is gone forever. They are recommending another service which I'll look into. But the cost seems to be so high as to make these things not really that viable. I'm still considering whether it is viable to make up some inventory and sell on AnalogAlley but it's risky in case the parts don't sell as anticipated since 3D printing is expensive and you have to pay upfront for the parts. In the past, I rarely ever even break even due to unsold inventory, or they take years to sell.