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Some background about all of this, first.
I am just personally and unofficially promoting this maker’s very high quality 3D printed and assembled Trek items and help this maker's 3D print business, as I have been assisting this maker, on improving and modifying his ST-TOS tricorder design .stl file, ( this maker purchased and was granted special permissions to use and be able to make models, to sell, for profit ), for over a year now, based on an original 3D print .stl file of a ST-TOS tricorder, designed by another 3D print maker by the name of UnimatrixRed, on the 3D print file Website, Printables.
Over that time, we have become friends, so I am just, unofficially, trying to help promote his 3D print business and, specifically, his ST-TOS tricorder 3D print models/prop replica builds!
This maker started producing these TOS tricorder 3D print builds about June 2024 ( he had already started making minor changes/revisions/improvements, even at this early time ), of that base 3D print TOS tricorder .stl file!
This maker has made many more changes/revisions/improvements over the past 10 months, with my polite and constructive help and suggestions, to this maker, and has gotten this 3D print model to a near prop replca version, in terms of accuracy to details and the overall, high quality, robust builds of this ST-TOS tricorder!
A few more changes/revisions/improvements will still be forthcoming, for the rest of 2025, and there has been some writing of, possibly, the addition/inclusion of just authentic, activated sound effects ( no other electronic lights or spinning moiré effects! The original TV show tricorder props had ZERO electronics, in them, but just had post-audio sound effect added, So, just the tricorder sound effects, ALONE, might be an included addition, to this, otherwise, static, 3D print model TOS tricorder ).
This maker’s current 3D print builds of the ST-TOS tricorder are close enough to, both, other fan produced prop replicas, over the years, as well as the original hero TV show built, onscreen prop!
This maker uses a very high grade, but recyclable PLA filament for his builds and extrudes this filament at,,anywhere bewteen 1.5 and 2mm diameter filament layering with almost invisible filament layering/stratification artifacts!
This maker uses a high reflectivity, simulated metal filament for all of the aluminium-looking parts of the TOS trucorder that give off a very convincing aluminium look and texture!
All the black parts are printed with a simulated “sand casting”, “fine pebble-like texture ( the DuPont Kydex plastic texturing is more of a “crinkly”, “wrinkle-like” texture ), but, at least, it has a similar looking and tactile feeling texture to all of the traditional vacu-formed plastic sheet parts!
It takes this maker 16-18 hours to just 3D print all of the tricorder parts! Another 6-8 hours for assembly.
So, anywhere from 26-28 hours to complete just one ST-TOS tricorder!
The maker only produces 3-4 of these, at a time, and there is, usually, a few days wait, between new builds!
Tricorder has flip open display head with all opening doors and lower compartment.
These features all use strong neodymium magnets to keep these features all open and shut!
Maker uses different strap material ( looks fine from any distance). It is a very durable, washable, heavyweight, braided nylon strap with a single strap adjustment buckle ( for length adjustment ), that hides behind down the person’s back ( with removal for left and right hand use ), so the strap looks seamless from the front of a person!
Tricorder comes with a very high quality 3D print and build, near screen accurate, small, handheld medical scanner, with a small medical vitals screen graphic, on the bottom of the scanner grip area!
The small hand scanner neatly/precisely fits into the lower storage compartment of the tricorder.
Tricorder, also, features interchangeable, magnetic, simulated screens ( one for a blank screen ( OFF ) look, and one with the medical vitals monitoring screen graphic ). Extra blank screens available, at extra cost, to use for your own custom screen graphics stickers, if you are so inclined/desire.
The magnetic, interchangeable screens , fit into a magnetic area, in the lower storage compartment, as well, keeping the screen/s from rattling/moving around, in the lower compartment, and doing any damage to the model/prop replica!
Price for one of this maker’s ST-TOS static trucorder builds can be AT or less than half, of the cost of The Wand Company ST-TOS tricorder, depending on where you are ordering from, sales taxes/VAT/any tariffs and added shipping costs.
This maker sold these very high quality 3D printed and quality assembled ST-TOS tricorders, earlier on, at what I feel was far too low and very close to the maker's actual “at cost to priduce pricing” ( couldn’t figure out how this maker was making any real profit on these very time consuming TOS tricorder builds, for the longest time ).
Since, the end of February 2025, this maker has raised their pricing to a more realistic price for this item.
Maker charges $115.00 U.S.D (plus, approx., $15.00 shipping within the continental U.S. plus sales taxes/other Country VAT/tariff costs!
I created this post for fans/collectors of ST and ST-TOS prop replicas, that can’t afford the much more expensive The Wand Company electronic/computerised tricorder, but might be able to afford to purchase a non-electronic/minimal electronic, static model/prop replica version that is close enough/accurate enough a static model/prop replica model that is very well built and designed/re-designed and has enough of an accurately detailed look to it!
These first images I am posting are all interchangeable blank screen pieces with my own custom designed tricorder sticker screen graphics that better simulate the look of the blank ( OFF ) cathode ray screen tube and screens with a distorted look that simulates the screen image distortion found in old fashioned, “old skool” cathode ray picture tubes of the 1950’s though the 1970’s, as well as, some image distortion from the raised glass/plastic screen lens that covers over/protects the cathode ray screen tube ( since no one can seem to be able to 3D print a really good, fairly clear, transparent plastic raised lens simulation of a clear plastic vacu-formed raised screen lens from 3D print filament printing ).
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