How big a pile of headwipe dabs did that have?
3D Printing What Are You Printing Today?
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About 300g of filament poop….
I’ve learned not to waste it, especially petg.
I machine injection molds on my CNC, or I use silicon molds.
Just bought chess set molds on Temu for $6 that the black and white poop should turn out well - https://share.temu.com/NCPqfATARLA
Here is a skull mold I think I shared earlier
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Monday I finished printing PETG parts for my Madcow Bomarc.
In the upper left-hand corner, you can spy the two marking guides I printed yesterday. Top one = I.D. too small. Bottom one = I.D. almost too small.
Gotta work on better estimating fit tolerances.
In the upper left-hand corner, you can spy the two marking guides I printed yesterday. Top one = I.D. too small. Bottom one = I.D. almost too small.
Gotta work on better estimating fit tolerances.
RCBrust
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Some guys have asked me for a CAD model of the 3D printed saucer (post #1112). Here is a STEP file that you can import into your preferred CAD software.
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Working on this little project. So far, I'm not liking the way it's printing. I'll be trying different combinations to get a better "buildable" print. Nose cone is fine and the main body is ok, but the tail section is sketch...
Nothing today, but I catastrophically disassemble my 2 times model of the port-a-potty rocket. I will build it better.
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Designed and printed this out. While I've seen a few designs using Pringles cans, I did my take on it. It can launch with either a 1/4" rod or 1010 rod. Spec'd for a E30-7 or a F44-8 to between 500-750' feet. Plan to use the JLCR on it at 200'.
Way cool! and only 150 calories per lunch launch!
Printing an accessory fan mount for my P1P.
Finished a test print of yet another pre-colored print-in-place rocket, this time a Mercury Redstone. Obviously not scale, but an easy print. This one is a bit different than the Saturn V - the entire motor tube / centering rings section is a separate unit so you can print 29mm, 38mm, 54mm, even a cluster. One more version and I'll put it up on printables.
Made some tweaks to a slimmer 29mm retainer design. Shortened the threaded portion and this seems fine at 30% infill with PETG (very little infill anyways). Pretty light.
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That orange really pops! Love those colors.
I am printing Nifty covers for our WilsonFX launch boxes.
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May we see? We just purchased and utilized our Wilson FX for the first time at SodBlaster curious to see what mods/accessories people are coming up with.
I will post pictures after it is printed. It snaps over the top to protect the buttons and switches. I will post it on printables when I am done.
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Printed out a dust shoe for my new small CNC router I need to assemble and get running.
And some canted fins too.
And some canted fins too.
Nice
I printed 2 and I am refining the cad today.
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Today, I am printing a fin alignment guide for my 4" Mega Red Max.
Referencing my post last Tuesday, I made up the weight system for the nose cones.
The 1/4-inch all-thread goes almost to the top. The weight is placed so that it presses up against the inside of the nose cone without pushing out. This stabilizes everything once it's screwed it. I gave it a pretty good shake and no rattling.
I designed 3 different weights: 15g, 60g, 120g.
I have printed the first two and they actually came out to 13g and 50g. I still need to print the 120g to find out its actual weight.
I weighed out all the comps:
Since the section I cut off of the shoulder and the threaded sleeve are approximately the same size, I will consider them as such. So this system added (minus the nose cone) 286.5g. This was enough to pull my Mega from a CAL of 0 to 1.187.
I can live with that.
The 1/4-inch all-thread goes almost to the top. The weight is placed so that it presses up against the inside of the nose cone without pushing out. This stabilizes everything once it's screwed it. I gave it a pretty good shake and no rattling.
I designed 3 different weights: 15g, 60g, 120g.
I have printed the first two and they actually came out to 13g and 50g. I still need to print the 120g to find out its actual weight.
I weighed out all the comps:
- 247.7g -- 4-in Mega Red Max (with the angled section removed AND the modified ebay sleeve epoxied... and some paint/decals
- 197.8g -- Ebay
- 5.4g -- 2x 1/4-in nuts
- 23.3g -- Eyebolt, washer, nut
- 60.0g -- ~315mm of 1/4-in all-thread
- 50.0g -- Counter-weight
Since the section I cut off of the shoulder and the threaded sleeve are approximately the same size, I will consider them as such. So this system added (minus the nose cone) 286.5g. This was enough to pull my Mega from a CAL of 0 to 1.187.
I can live with that.
I've been playing with the new lightweight foaming filaments. Really cool stuff. Still learning how to properly print with them, but worth the effort for a 50% reduction in weight.
There is definitely a small learning curve with those.
You should upload that to Thingiverse.
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Thanks but it really is just someone's jar pushed below the print surface to chop the top and bottom. Then you set the diameter to whatever you need in your favorite slicer. Here the original thing...
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4645043
