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Heizungsventilrohrreparatur - Nylon 3D-Druck

Siegfried @, Freitag, 15.08.2025, 23:39 (vor 20 Tagen)
bearbeitet von Siegfried, Freitag, 15.08.2025, 23:50

Hallo!

Sorry for rolling the ball in English, my Deutsche Sprache is rather weak. I'll try to improve it later on.
My E30 MY91 Touring gave me another leak some time ago and after replacing - wastefully - 2yr old heater core for a brand-new one I discovered that it's the heater core valve, which is leaking. More precisely, it's the pipe which is cracked between the valve flange and heater core flange. The valve assembly was replaced 2 years ago with a good-looking used one, so I'm not going to buy another used one any more. Nor I am going to spend 266.23e + shipping + customs fee + VAT on a brand new one, since my valve is of the latter - all-black - design and both electromagnet valve and rubber membrane are in a pristine condition. I only need the pipe.

So I made a 3D model to be MFJ- or SLS-printed in Nylon. Or SLM-printed in stainl... Inox (see, I'm learning!) should someone with deep pockets decide to place such order. And speaking of or orders: please, let me know if you find it interesting or not. I really mean it: I'm appreciating both positive (e.g. ja, go fur it, wi need Heizungsventilrohrs) as well as negative (e.g. nein, I'll better order brand new one at der dealership). English isn't my mother tongue, I moved away from my home country 2 years ago and currently I'm starting a brand new life in southern Europe (slightly outside of EU). So I'm taking this take-down as an opportunity.

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Vielen Dank und viele Grusse,
Zig

P.S.
I just tried going e30-talk, but their CAPTCHA isn't working so I couldn't complete registration process. If anybody is using both this forum and that, please ping administrator of that website and report about that broken funktion.

3D-model

Siegfried @, Samstag, 16.08.2025, 01:38 (vor 20 Tagen) @ Siegfried

Entschuldigen Sie, I forgot to show the model itself.

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By the way, I'm also working on luftwaff... luftmass... luftmengenmesserredisign: it'll be based on (contactless) digital Hall-effect angle position sensor and microcontroller. Digital design will allow to use a single platform for multiple products: M40/42/43, M20, even LH-Jetronic on M10/S14.
Anyone interested?

Zig

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Heizungsventilrohrreparatur - Nylon 3D-Druck

esgey, Samstag, 16.08.2025, 10:17 (vor 20 Tagen) @ Siegfried

P.S.
I just tried going e30-talk, but their CAPTCHA isn't working so I couldn't complete registration process. If anybody is using both this forum and that, please ping administrator of that website and report about that broken funktion.

You're actually the first one to experience this particular problem.
All the spam bots get in there on the first try...

Have you tried another browser/device?

Grüßle aus'm Schwobaländle,
Heiko

Heizungsventilrohrreparatur - Nylon 3D-Druck

Siegfried @, Samstag, 16.08.2025, 11:56 (vor 20 Tagen) @ esgey

Hi, Heiko.
Thanks for your input, but it wasn't my browser, the problem was on the server side. I contacted website owner Benjamin over email (found his address in the Impressum, rather typical and helpful German internet feature) and he fixed it.

Gruesse,
Zig

Heizungsventilrohrreparatur - Nylon 3D-Druck

überfahreNN, Sonntag, 17.08.2025, 01:24 (vor 19 Tagen) @ Siegfried

The pipe looks great. I broke mine some day trying to pull the engine..

Could you share the files, maybe on some 3d printing platform?

PS: The pipe is still available new from BMW. But still great project. :-)

Heizungsventilrohrreparatur - Nylon 3D-Druck

Siegfried @, Dienstag, 19.08.2025, 16:58 (vor 17 Tagen) @ überfahreNN

Hallo.

Apparently, I wasn't clear enough, so let me say it again: I am trying to make living in immigration and I consider that breakdown as an opportunity to make money. Thus I'm not sharing my model, but investigating whether there's any demand for that 3D-printed part. And speaking of the part, the pipe is not available from BMW or from anyone else, only the valve assembly, which includes the pipe, the electromagnet solenoid, the rubber membrane and - in the last iteration of the valve assembly - a cable and connector.

I do appreciate your interest on this matter.

Grusse,
Zig

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