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
Half the time it seems like 3d printers are for printing things to fix 3d printer issues
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
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What an awesome projectDoing 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 fits 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.
I tried to type Bambu but it auto corrected but I decided to leave it because lawl
I thought about that but due to the vibration and abuse they'd take I couldn't figure out a strong enough option. Also the original wheels have no give and they've been fine. Then this morning while cleaning over-molding debris out of the chair I realized the stuff was a smooth/slick material. It's for anti-friction not cushion. Crap. I'm gonna have to polish my printed wheels and hope for the best.What an awesome project
Would some harder TPU printed really dense be a better candidate for the massage wheels? Or like a nylon core with a dense TPU “tire” around it or something?
yeah all I use the X1C screen for is loading/unloading filament and moving the toolhead around to wipe down the rails after ABS
www.thingiverse.com
No clue, just wondering how strong the stuff is … and trying to convince myself the 1x is worth double the price
3d printed stuff in general is fairly strong, Carbon/Glass filled helps with rigidity a lot at the cost of making things brittle
