Reference piece
Helm-mount VHF holster.
A sheltered helm fitting. PETG gives a structural fit that takes modest UV without going brittle.
MarinePETG
Case studies · Cascais, Portugal
Case studies from real client jobs.
Each one is a job we delivered: what the client needed, how we engineered it, and how it fits. Reference pieces further down are labelled as such.
§ 01 · Client jobs
№ 004 · Homes & property
Lid for an outdoor pool control box.
The front lid of an outdoor pool control box had cracked, leaving the timer, breaker and switches open to the weather. We took the shape from the broken original and printed a new lid in two halves, joined along the middle.
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№ 003 · Homes & property · ASA + TPU
Caps for a pool-cover reel, Parede.
Both caps on the posts of a pool-cover reel had failed after years of sun: one cracked through, the other gone. We measured the posts on site, rebuilt the cap in CAD and printed a matching pair in white ASA, with a custom TPU seal in place of the original's moulded fins.
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№ 001 · Custom design · PLA
Pendant lamps, restaurant interior, Cascais.
Alegria Vadia, a restaurant in Cascais, commissioned a set of four pendant lamps for its interior. Each lamp was modelled in CAD, printed in PLA, then sanded and painted by hand before installation, where the set hangs today.
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№ 002 · Motorcycles · ASA + TPU 85A
TFT dash cover, Moto Guzzi Stelvio, Cascais.
A Stelvio owner wanted the bike's 12.7 cm TFT dash covered while it sits parked in the sun, and nothing on the market fitted. We measured the screen surround on the bike and made a vented ASA shell with a bonded TPU 85A seal. It grips the surround, clears the glass, and lifts off by hand.
Read the case study →§ 02 · Reference pieces
What the process produces.
Everything below is a reference piece, shown to demonstrate the kind of part we make and the material we would specify for it. None of these is a client job, and none is shown as one.
Reference piece
Hatch-hinge replica.
A moving fit, rebuilt around its pin and its mounting holes rather than traced off the worn original.
MarinePETG
Reference piece
Cable pass-through, sailboat helm.
A cover that has to close a hole someone else drilled. The scan supplies the hole, not a catalogue size.
MarinePETG
Reference piece
Marine hose-union replica.
Deck level and sun-exposed, so ASA. It stays stable in UV where PLA would chalk and fail inside a season.
MarineASA
Reference piece
Window handle replica.
An indoor visual replica in PLA, matched to the original profile so one broken handle doesn't mean replacing every window.
HomePLA
Reference piece
Dashboard vent knob, classic-car interior.
Behind glass, cabin heat and direct sun would soften PLA, so ASA.
Classic carsASA
Reference piece
Flexible helm-console phone mount.
Printed in TPU, so the mount flexes with the console instead of cracking at the bolt holes.
CustomTPU
§ 03 · What comes next
How a job ends up on this page.
When a job is finished and the client is happy to be named, it gets a page like the lamps: the photo that started it, the scan or the measurements it came from, the CAD reconstruction, the material and the reason for it, and how the part sat when it went in. Most parts take three to seven days from the first photo to the finished piece, and the page is the record of that week.
Nothing goes up without the client's agreement, and the studio is young, so this page will grow slowly. That suits us. A short page of work we can stand behind is worth more than a long one we cannot.
Take two
Your part could be the next one here.
Send a photo on WhatsApp. We'll say whether we can make it, and we'll say when 3D printing is the wrong answer for your part. Engineering a new part starts at €120, quoted after we've seen it. Parts we have already engineered carry a fixed price.
or email contact@take-two.co
The studio's main work is engineering replacement parts for boats, homes, workshops and farms, motorcycles, RVs and custom cars.
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