3D Printer Club

[Fokker]

It looks like my issue with shrinkage in ABS is caused by not enough chamber heat. I've tried soaking the chamber by leaving the bed preheated to100° C for an extended period, but that only gets it to about 35° C (used the hot end thermistor as a makeshift ambient probe). I'll have to figure out a safe way to preheat the chamber and manage the temperature to lengthen the cooling time, but I'll save that for later since I have some other parts I want to produce. I'll just use PLA+ for now and come back to the other high-heat materials.

I also found a firmware update for my Ender 3v2 that is much more robust than the Creality firmware, so I'll flash that and add an Micro Swiss direct drive hotend, a BLT sensor, and maybe a couple other minor upgrades to make that more useful.

 

[SN2716057]

Different spool holder, now with ball bearings. I had them laying around doing nothing. I can use the original for another project.
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And I made a Draft Excluding plate. Not really needed for PLA but I might in the future mess with ABS.

It sits just behind the display.

And lastly I FINALLY bought some grey filament.

 

[de.das.dude]

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Different spool holder, now with ball bearings. I had them laying around doing nothing. I can use the original for another project.
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And I made a Draft Excluding plate. Not really needed for PLA but I might in the future mess with ABS.
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It sits just behind the display.
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And lastly I FINALLY bought some grey filament.

you should print cylinders laying on one end so the axis is vertical, it gives a better finish.

 

[Fokker]

Since my chamber doesn't get warm enough even under full printing heat, I'm making a ghetto-fabulous enclosure heater to try for better high temp prints. I'll have to construct a mount to hold it up and I'll design and print a mount for the thermostat outlet so I can have it up on the desk with a short extension cord. I also ordered a couple of spools of PLA+ since I'm low on that. I've also tweaked my slicer settings to cut my print times in half and I haven't even gotten to input shaping and a high flow nozzle for the SV06. I also have some 0.1mm thick washers coming that I can use to help level out my bed mesh.

 

[SN2716057]

you should print cylinders laying on one end so the axis is vertical, it gives a better finish.

In the future I will, but with a bit of sanding and the fact it hidden by the spool I didn't mind it.
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Since my chamber doesn't get warm enough even under full printing heat, I'm making a ghetto-fabulous enclosure heater to try for better high temp prints. I'll have to construct a mount to hold it up and I'll design and print a mount for the thermostat outlet so I can have it up on the desk with a short extension cord. I also ordered a couple of spools of PLA+ since I'm low on that. I've also tweaked my slicer settings to cut my print times in half and I haven't even gotten to input shaping and a high flow nozzle for the SV06. I also have some 0.1mm thick washers coming that I can use to help level out my bed mesh.

Or you could just blast the heat from PC into your 3D printer

 

[Fokker]

Or you could just blast the heat from PC into your 3D printer

Haha, there's about 8 feet separating the desks. I think this will be slightly easier.

 

[de.das.dude]

Haha, there's about 8 feet separating the desks. I think this will be slightly easier.

HVAC ducting

 

[Fokker]

HVAC ducting

That might come into play with the heater, depending on if it likes sitting in 50-70° C. I'd rather keep it inside so none of the energy is wasted warming the room.

 

[SN2716057]

Schiit Stack Brackets, these are better for keeping this schiit together.
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Cali Cats in various sizes.
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Skull with a white banana for scale.

 

[de.das.dude]

i have that flexi cat printed but at a smaller scale, it lies on top of my monitor. haha

 

[SN2716057]

Riser top for the CM NR200P.
It's far from finished as I still need to do sanding, and I'll probably glue some pieces together.

 

[de.das.dude]

Made a germination thingy

Automatic Seed Starter - Self Watering Seed Starter With Transparent Lid by guppyk

Springtime, finally. Plenty of seeds that need some kind of special attention (some extra warmth, extra humidity...). Following up on my earlier simple seed starter (of which we use dozens in our small green house), here is s fully automatic (well kind of...), self-watering seed starter, mainly...

www.thingiverse.com

planted basil and putting it on my heated bed

 

[Fokker]

Redesigned this after making some adjustments for shrinkage so my final print comes out accurate to model dimensions. I've cut the print time from 8 hours to 4 hours and I haven't even gotten to adding an accelerometer and doing input shaping/resonance calibration or adding the high flow nozzle.

 

[Fokker]

I need to redo the trim ring (gunmetal silver surround for the factory vent) to complete the OEM-ish look. I made it slightly too big, but I'm my defense it was 3am.

 

[de.das.dude]

 

[Fokker]

Like a glove. Now to build out the rest to hold the RPi and the controller together as an assembly. (Sensor opening was a bit deep, but I don't mind using less filament.)

 

[SN2716057]

25% done with the Hive containers. So now on to Polymaker Red/Black filament

 

[Fokker]

I'm going to test fit the base and then join both into a single assembly once I've made any tweaks I need to. My knock-off high flow, hardened steel nozzles are stateside, so I should have those by early next week at the latest. I can then start printing with my CF filament (CF filament eats up brass) and build the stuff to hold my heater and the temp probe from the controller. I keep most of my RPi4s in these aluminum brick cases, so that's what it'll be sitting on.

 

[de.das.dude]

I just remembered.... I am a case modder lmmao. Printed some fan grills aperture science style.

 

[Frick]

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I need to redo the trim ring (gunmetal silver surround for the factory vent) to complete the OEM-ish look. I made it slightly too big, but I'm my defense it was 3am.

I could google what "knock retard" is what I'm not going to.

 

[de.das.dude]

I could google what "knock retard" is what I'm not going to.

advance your spark time before it detonates due to compression.

what

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I need to redo the trim ring (gunmetal silver surround for the factory vent) to complete the OEM-ish look. I made it slightly too big, but I'm my defense it was 3am.

what do hickey are you using? i use a obd2 reader with the torque app on my spare phone. I mount it to my dash with a normal phone mount.

 

[Fokker]

advance your spark time before it detonates due to compression.

what

what do hickey are you using? i use a obd2 reader with the torque app on my spare phone. I mount it to my dash with a normal phone mount.

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That's a Cobb Tuning Accessport in the photo. It does ECU flashing and data logging/display.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

advance your spark time before it detonates due to compression.

I was going to say it was a very particular type of driver that we must attempt to avoid...

 

[Fokker]

My paper thin metal washers arrived so I can hopefully lessen the deformity of my bed mesh. I've also grabbed some more things to make my prints more modular/easier to print out. Threadserts, flathead screws, and press with a soldering iron/tips.

 

[SN2716057]

I just remembered.... I am a case modder lmmao. Printed some fan grills aperture science style.
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Yes, Aperture Science ftw!

http://imgur.com/4OHZ6tY

I'll let him keep the one hair