DanSavage
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After many years away from the hobby of model rocketry, I'm re-entering, so to speak.
I'm creating a display stand for the 1:35 Estes Mercury Redstone launch stand using my Anycubic Photon 3D printer. This thread will detail process of creating and fitting the stand to the rocket.
I started with the following two photos.
Using these as a reference I created the following 3D model. The model is designed to be printed in several pieces to minimize the raster stair-stepping.
Here's the 'kit' that I printed out. It consists of blast deflector, ring, legs, struts and leg bases. Missing from this photo are the tops of the legs, shown in red. More on that later.
Because the Anycubic Photon has a limited bed size, I had to split the ring and the blast deflector into two pieces.
The struts have clevises at each end that fit into lugs molded into the legs and the bottom of the ring.
First strut is fitted to the leg.
All struts fitted to the leg.
Struts being fitted to blast deflector.
Ring resting on legs.
This fitting together of the parts represents the first printing. I can see I'll need to make a few modifications to the parts.
Missing from these photos is the upper part of the struts that allow them to be mounted to the underside of the ring. I need to rework these parts so they print correctly. These parts are shown in red in the 3D rendering I posted above. Unfortunately, I need to order some supplies before I can print replacement parts.
It'll take a few days for the supplies to arrive. Once they do, I'll reprint some of the parts and post new photos.
Dan
I'm creating a display stand for the 1:35 Estes Mercury Redstone launch stand using my Anycubic Photon 3D printer. This thread will detail process of creating and fitting the stand to the rocket.
I started with the following two photos.
Using these as a reference I created the following 3D model. The model is designed to be printed in several pieces to minimize the raster stair-stepping.
Here's the 'kit' that I printed out. It consists of blast deflector, ring, legs, struts and leg bases. Missing from this photo are the tops of the legs, shown in red. More on that later.
Because the Anycubic Photon has a limited bed size, I had to split the ring and the blast deflector into two pieces.
The struts have clevises at each end that fit into lugs molded into the legs and the bottom of the ring.
First strut is fitted to the leg.
All struts fitted to the leg.
Struts being fitted to blast deflector.
Ring resting on legs.
This fitting together of the parts represents the first printing. I can see I'll need to make a few modifications to the parts.
Missing from these photos is the upper part of the struts that allow them to be mounted to the underside of the ring. I need to rework these parts so they print correctly. These parts are shown in red in the 3D rendering I posted above. Unfortunately, I need to order some supplies before I can print replacement parts.
It'll take a few days for the supplies to arrive. Once they do, I'll reprint some of the parts and post new photos.
Dan
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