Picture request: wiper nut cap

Talk and Tech about turbocharged 924/944/968 cars
User avatar
Tom
Site Admin
Posts: 8961
Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:04 pm
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Has thanked: 936 times
Been thanked: 4025 times
Contact:
Could I ask some late 944 owners to take/post some pictures of the caps that go on the windshield wiper nuts (i.e., the style shown in the picture below). They are NLA it seems, so (naturally) I want to model news ones and print them on my good 3D printer. :) Trying to figure out, among other things, if the top sits flush with the arm or sticks up a little proud of the arm where the cap meets the arm?

There's a version on Thingiverse, but its very primitive and not OEM-looking. They come up on eBay, but are typically $30 for faded used platic caps. :roll: And I figure it may be something others may want them too....


wiper cap.jpg
wiper cap.jpg (34.78 KiB) Viewed 1193 times

#1

Zirconocene
Posts: 191
Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:59 pm
Location: PDX Adjacent
Has thanked: 78 times
Been thanked: 48 times
I have a couple of other pictures I need to take on my S2, and can get you some later today/this evening.

Cheers
Cheers

1990 928 GT
1990 928 S4
1991 944 S2
1993 968
2002 911 C2

#2

Zirconocene
Posts: 191
Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:59 pm
Location: PDX Adjacent
Has thanked: 78 times
Been thanked: 48 times
It looks like my S2 has the same caps as pictured on the first post. Please excuse the general dirtiness and overspray from a (bad) respray by the PO.

Cheers
Add Pictures/Files
20220709_082754.jpg
20220709_082754.jpg (3.01 MiB) Viewed 1171 times
20220709_082732.jpg
20220709_082732.jpg (2.75 MiB) Viewed 1171 times
Cheers

1990 928 GT
1990 928 S4
1991 944 S2
1993 968
2002 911 C2

#3

User avatar
Tom
Site Admin
Posts: 8961
Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:04 pm
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Has thanked: 936 times
Been thanked: 4025 times
Contact:
That's super helpful, thank you! In that first picture, I assume you could push the cap down a bit so it sits more like the second picture? Either way, these pictures confirm what I suspected -- that the cap does not sit flush against the arm across the straight edge....

#4

Zirconocene
Posts: 191
Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:59 pm
Location: PDX Adjacent
Has thanked: 78 times
Been thanked: 48 times
Correct, the first picture should look like the second, I just wasn't able to do it with the angle/leverage I had. From the original picture, that little tab on the cover should sit in that cast slot on the arm, so it may also be that I have some gunk in that arm that I need to clean out.

Cheers
Cheers

1990 928 GT
1990 928 S4
1991 944 S2
1993 968
2002 911 C2

#5

ROB III
Moderator
Posts: 603
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2022 2:47 pm
Location: Nashville
Has thanked: 521 times
Been thanked: 264 times
Here are a couple confirmation shots from my 89 Turbo.
Turns out I need one as well.
IMG_6381.JPG
IMG_6381.JPG (1.63 MiB) Viewed 1151 times
IMG_6382.JPG
IMG_6382.JPG (1.59 MiB) Viewed 1151 times
Rob
89 944 Turbo
Musik-Stadt Region

#6

User avatar
Tom
Site Admin
Posts: 8961
Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:04 pm
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Has thanked: 936 times
Been thanked: 4025 times
Contact:
Here's my first pass...

wiper3.jpg
wiper3.jpg (121.4 KiB) Viewed 1132 times

#7

User avatar
gruhsy
Posts: 517
Joined: Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:02 am
Has thanked: 48 times
Been thanked: 81 times
Nice
They already look better than faded ones

#8

Zirconocene
Posts: 191
Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:59 pm
Location: PDX Adjacent
Has thanked: 78 times
Been thanked: 48 times
I agree that they look really nice already, on your Rev 0.

That's some nice resolution you have there, or did you work on the part a little after printing?

ETA Random idea: Can you incorporate a little Porsche crest? It seems like it would fit there very nicely.
Cheers

1990 928 GT
1990 928 S4
1991 944 S2
1993 968
2002 911 C2

#9

User avatar
Tom
Site Admin
Posts: 8961
Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2021 2:04 pm
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Has thanked: 936 times
Been thanked: 4025 times
Contact:
Zirconocene wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:58 am I agree that they look really nice already, on your Rev 0.

That's some nice resolution you have there, or did you work on the part a little after printing?

ETA Random idea: Can you incorporate a little Porsche crest? It seems like it would fit there very nicely.
That's the beauty of resin printers. It prints at about 1/20mm per layer, so most parts come out looking smooth as a molded part. That one wasn't sanded or anything, but I did hit it with black primer to get the best visual on the arm. I think this version is just a little bit too tall. I just reduced it a mm and am going to print again. I like the Porsche crest idea. I'd just need to find something I could incorporate into the model without trying to draw it myself...

p.s., I should have said first try worth sharing. I think that was the 3rd or 4th that I've printed, inching closer to 'just right' each time.... :)

#10

Post Reply