3d Printing Crew: Tugboats up in this biatch

[CPTMULLET]

Wonder what their secret sauce is? Seems like it's a struggle for most other companies.

Good pei is expensive, it’s one of the places they don’t cut corners

 

[TheGreat8]

So am I dumb or are there multiple sizes of bowden tube clips? I swapped out a connecter on the nozzle side of my cr-10 with the same exact color and size (I though) connector but every blue clip I try to put on it literally shoots off like a cartoon I mean, I'm pretty sure I put the same one back on, and then started trying my other clips but none of them seem to work.

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[TheGreat8]

Nevermind, I got it, The connector was just stiff because it's new and I wad to pull up on it harder to get the clip to seat

 

[TheGreat8]

So what's everyone working on now?

 

[Ramathorn15]

So what's everyone working on now?

I feel like @michael and I are the only ones who actually post photos of prints anymore.

 

[CPTMULLET]

I feel like @michael and I are the only ones who actually post photos of prints anymore.

It’s been like a week since I posted some

 

[CPTMULLET]

Still haven’t gotten the m6 threads right

 

[TheGreat8]

I feel like I have been fixing or upgrading 98 things only to have 99 be like "HEY BITCH, REMEMBERRRRR?"

But I did manage to print out a few things for a friend in this god awful color imo.

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I'm currently printing one of the spilling cup things with a black coffee cup and purple liquid splashing simply so it's not a box of off gold lol. I know the brin def needs some sanding on the hat and there are some spots I'm not happy with on the door knockers, but they be finnnnne. lol

 

[Ramathorn15]

It’s been like a week since I posted some

 

[OneTwo]

Still haven’t gotten the m6 threads right

 

[CPTMULLET]

I’m making something disposable so those aren’t super worth it

 

[TheGreat8]

Yall know of any transparent filament that is actually clear or at least clear enough to see what is inside it?

I'm trying to figure out how to make a mini hourglass where you can actually see the sand going down. I've had negative luck trying to find a CLEAR clear, or something as close as possible

It's a tiny hourglass for a time turner, some Harry potter necklace thing or something

 

[CPTMULLET]

Yall know of any transparent filament that is actually clear or at least clear enough to see what is inside it?

I'm trying to figure out how to make a mini hourglass where you can actually see the sand going down. I've had negative luck trying to find a CLEAR clear, or something as close as possible

It's a tiny hourglass for a time turner, some Harry potter necklace thing or something

clear petg, there's youtube videos about it but I've never watched one

 

[TheGreat8]

ok cool I jsut found this one my I dont think my cr-10 likes it. here's hoping the small printer can handle petg

 

[CPTMULLET]

I made these brackets to mount a ram ball to my dash, prob completely overkill but it's easier than holding bolts under a dash
used heatserts because they are best

 

[TheGreat8]

yea, I'm in luck, off to youtube to figure out what I need to do

 

[Cicada]

Something really annoying in Bambu slicer is k values. You have to adjust it at the machine level. I've found .055 is good for pteg and .025 for PLA. If I switch from pteg to pla and forget to change the k value, I spend the next 2 hours trying to figure out wtf is going on.

There needs to be a way to put it in with your filament settings.

Have you tried the softfever fork?

 

[Cicada]

Spent many hours developing a proper air filtration box for the P1P and now I cant get even PLA to not lift up in the corners. I've tried both the textured and cool bed with increased heat on both, magicgoo and the bambu glue, a huge brim as well as enclosing the print. Nothing seems to be working. I'm guessing its the empty box shape thats causing the corners to warp and pull up but I feel like I've done similar prints without issues.

Here is what it will look like if I can ever get it to print correctly.

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Using a centrifugal fan instead of axial fans which are pretty useless for this application.

Cross with carbon chamber at the top followed by HEPA.

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bro what

just print a Bento Box like I did -- the original design had axial fans and vented to the top (across the print/bed), but there are already remixes/mods for different configurations -- mine is top-down so it vents underneath the bed and with 5015 fans

 

[Ramathorn15]

bro what

just print a Bento Box like I did -- the original design had axial fans and vented to the top (across the print/bed), but there are already remixes/mods for different configurations -- mine is top-down so it vents underneath the bed and with 5015 fans

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I didn't see the remix with centrifugal fans Oh well, I like my design better anyhow.

 

[Ramathorn15]

Making some progress with the petg (blue) and test fitting the filter/carbon blxes with the slightly warped pla.

 

[Cicada]

I feel like @michael and I are the only ones who actually post photos of prints anymore.

I print a lot of random useless stuff, but don't post it

I finally got around to printing one of these today

they have a "mini" version now that i'll probably try to do tomorrow

 

[Cicada]

some more useless-ish stuff i've printed over the last week

 

[Ramathorn15]

some more useless-ish stuff i've printed over the last week

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Are these your photos? If so, what are you using as a booth? They almost look like renders.

 

[Cicada]

Are these your photos? If so, what are you using as a booth? They almost look like renders.

I have a small cyclorama and tens of thousands in lighting and modifiers, and a 50k camera —

but I shoot the stuff I print with a small Fuji XT3 and a macro lens with a lazy setup I have sitting on top of a trash can

I used to do small product photography when I had a small marketing business for vape companies before the industry got killed by regulation

 

[FritoBandito]

Doing my favorite kind of project. We have a Japanese massage chair that my wife's late mother purchased 20 years ago. When she passed away nobody else wanted it so we took it. Being Japanese it's not a big chair but it's built like a brick and has been helping my bad back (and my wife's) for ~10 years. It kind of an heirloom now and every time we use it it's hard not to remember her mom. Anyway in the last 3 months something broke. It still worked but there was crunching and clunking that didn't use to happen. It seemed pretty clear the chair was dying. We can afford a new chair and no doubt it'll be way better with more features but it wouldn't be her mom's chair. Well today I decided to have at it. Took it apart relatively easily and found that all the rubber coating on the massage wheels had completely crumbled away. Also there were 4 idler gears/wheels that followed rails that had a rubber coating that had completely let go.

Started by modeling and printing the 4 idler roller/gears in black nylon. This was tricky since the old gears were so blown out I didn't have much of an example to follow. I was plowing ahead and didn't take a pic of the idler before I installed it.

Took a couple adjustments but they fit perfectly. Hard to see but the red arrows point at the front pair. The others are on the far side of the assembly. I was fortunate they used such good material for the rails since they didn't have a mark on em. Just clean out the chips of all the other plastic. Yea crap pic I know but here's a LINK TO A HI RES VERSION.

The yellow arrows point at the massage wheels. Those are what press on your back when you lean on it. They had a rubber coating that had crumbled off. It was so thin it didn't provide much cushion so I'm just going to print the wheels in solid nylon. They're printing right now. Got about 19 hours to go since I'm doing them very dense.

This is going way better than I anticipated when I tore the chair apart. I expected to be disappointed by total carnage and not just some gears and wheels. Pretty confident I'll be back in mom's chair here pretty soon.