The 3D Printing Thread

[pheoxs]

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blackbelt is still around aren't they? Not cheap. But if a box of parts appeared something could be arranged...

palette 2 has even more frustration than the mmu2 going by the cr10 forums. Same issues but now its not user serviceable...

10k for their cheapest printer. No chance its worth it for my application. I have my prints designed really well for batches. Each batch takes 10 hours to print. So I start it before work and start it at dinner time. Which gives me around 20/24 hours of the day printing. Or around ~85% utilization of my printers. My oldest MK3 rolled over 12,000 hours now.

Even with a printer belt, I'd gain a bit by printing one at a time (versus a bed worth) and the remaining 4 hours a day of downtime but that's never going to come close to just having twice as many printers. I can get 6x Prusa mk3's for half the blackbelt printer, so it just doesn't make sense.

Edit: Also if you wanna laser cut stuff just go to fuse33. It's like 75 cents a minute or something stupidly cheap. Do a bunch of projects there until you've racked up 10-20 hours of laser time then consider getting your own.

[Mitsu3000gt]

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Tacky garbage for etsy

Friend has 2 and likes them, beats a k40 on the out of the box performance at least. I'd prefer the k40 with some upgrades myself.

I see, thanks - I was mostly just curious as I was watching some videos on it and it looked kind of cool. Then when I looked at forums, it seemed like the majority of people were using them to make extremely unoriginal home decorations to sell on etsy and at craft fairs.

[pheoxs]

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I see, thanks - I was mostly just curious as I was watching some videos on it and it looked kind of cool. Then when I looked at forums, it seemed like the majority of people were using them to make extremely unoriginal home decorations to sell on etsy and at craft fairs.

Yeah, like you can do some really cool things, especially 3d artwork. But it's not simple to do. It takes a lot of effort to model and then slice and assemble the pieces in CAD to fit before you even get to the laser cutting stage.

So most people just use them for engraving a name on a keychain and such

[Mitsu3000gt]

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Yeah, like you can do some really cool things, especially 3d artwork. But it's not simple to do. It takes a lot of effort to model and then slice and assemble the pieces in CAD to fit before you even get to the laser cutting stage.

So most people just use them for engraving a name on a keychain and such

Makes sense - seems like it could still be a great tool in talented hands, but people buying them not wanting to put in a lot of effort or just using pre-made templates probably don't see as much value from it.

[pheoxs]

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Makes sense - seems like it could still be a great tool in talented hands, but people buying them not wanting to put in a lot of effort or just using pre-made templates probably don't see as much value from it.

same as 3d printers. I'd wager well over half the people with printers never print anything that isn't pre-made. Just download models and hit print.

[AndyL]

Turned on a printer for the first time in forever today



Yeah it's out of tune, volcano keeps backing off from tight for some reason.

An Arduino pro mini, 3 ws2812's and a small lipo weren't harmed terribly in the making of this ornament. fear not a whole month left for it to burn down the house.

[ExtraSlow]

Heard a neat oil and gas tech podcast from Velo3d about thier metal additive manufacturing system. They can print in inconel and titanium. Sounds awesome. Probably crazy expensive I'll bet. Both to buy the machine and per volume of material.

Can already picture some applications for this system at my work. Would save much time shipping custom parts around the world on short notice.

[Thaco]

just picked up an ender 3 pro from the 11.11 sales on aliexpress... working so good i am amazed at how far the quality/cost has come since a couple years ago when i had a shitty acrylic that would warp every time you heated it up, i spent more time fixing that stupid thing than printing, it really discouraged me from 3d printing, but this ender 3 has been nothing short of impressive.

[pheoxs]

Just got my shipping notification for the Prusa MINI's, hopefully they'll arrive on Friday and set them up this weekend. Curious to see how these little things do.

[jwslam]

This one is on sale. Any good?
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01FL49VZE

[AndyL]

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This one is on sale. Any good?
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01FL49VZE

Not a particularly good price... There was a surplus store over in mcall lake that sold them for 180ish.

Machines' not the worst, I had one for a very short time, good quality prints would take a bunch of work.

[jwslam]

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Not a particularly good price... There was a surplus store over in mcall lake that sold them for 180ish.

Looks like the discount ended.
Was $169 at one point

[RickDaTuner]

Can I enlist anyone to print a repair piece for my coffee grinder?

Here’s the link to the part.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2823852

What would something like this cost?

Thanks

[AndyL]

Love the photon.

Yes those are itty bitty teeny tiny tow truck hooks. 5¾" 5T versions at 1/25th scale. Puts them about 5.8mm (under 1/4").

[jwslam]

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4255721

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...kers-1.5517089

[ExtraSlow]

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Hey, anyone feel like doing a little project for me? This is for beside my wife's sink, just a couple little filler pieces

Smooth or minor texture on top, bottom can be whatever honeycomb you want to reduce material. It doesn't have to hold more a couple pounds of weight.
Piece A size: 22mm high x 100mm wide x 300mm long
Piece b size: 22mm high x 42mm wide x 150 mm long.

Pure white or near white preferred. Don't want to paint these, so want the filament color to be appropriate. I pay in either beer or money, whatever your prefer.

I"m going to quote myself on this, anyone feel like making this for me? Can pay cash, beer, Toilet paper or whatever. White/ivory or black color, whatever is easy/cheap.

[The_Rural_Juror]

I can give it a shot when I get a chance. I am out of white but do have clear.

[AndyL]

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https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4255721

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...kers-1.5517089

I'm around 12 dozen to date. Mostly EMS folks, a few long term care and 2 small clinics. there's some wierdness at AHS around these...

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I"m going to quote myself on this, anyone feel like making this for me? Can pay cash, beer, Toilet paper or whatever. White/ivory or black color, whatever is easy/cheap.

Whoops sorry I forgot all about that. Rural is probably closer and I hear he's got a printer sure beats travel to high river

[The_Rural_Juror]

If you guys can design the STL, I can probably print it in PLA. I never got to learning how to design those things. It can't be too difficult being a basic shape, but I would need to hunt down software.

[ExtraSlow]

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If you guys can design the STL, I can probably print it in PLA. I never got to learning how to design those things. It can't be too difficult being a basic shape, but I would need to hunt down software.

I probably have time if anyone can tell me what that means.