3D Printers and Printing

[Greatscott]

The other night I was soldering up a battery pack for a friend, and it really hit me how much I disliked my solder stand. It was one of my first projects I made when I started using Fusion 360 and printing. After about an hour of staring at the solder stand, I had a good idea of what I wanted for my next one. About an hour on the computer and about 20 hours of print time, I have this little gem. This is so much more functional... This is what I love about the whole 3D printing thing...

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[indybama]

Finally got my ender 3 v2 lined out. Downloaded some of harleys files. I fought with them the past 2 days, before i realized, i didnt have adhesion n supports turned on Now theyre printin pretty good. Only colors i have at the moment are black n clear, but i managed to get a bit creative with them. When i printed the exhaust n seats, i swapped colors in the middle of printing. I like how they turned out. Idk how, but managed to time the swap on the second seat pretty close lol. I got the dash, 2 seats, exhaust, the hot side of the turbo, n the rack/tray for the phoenix/fordyce done. The cold side is printin now, then ill get the velocity n cliffhanger cab only cage done

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[B-MOW71]

Originally Posted by indybama

Finally got my ender 3 v2 lined out.

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Welcome to the club! Endless possibilities and a must have tool!

Not sure if this will apply to you, but I always before each print, spray some alcohol (non drinkable kind) on a rag and wipe down the bed when I first start to heat the bed up. That has helped my adhesion. I have the Ender 3 Pro which has the magnet bed, not the glass, so not sure what type of bed you have.

[indybama]

Originally Posted by B-MOW71

Welcome to the club! Endless possibilities and a must have tool!



Not sure if this will apply to you, but I always before each print, spray some alcohol (non drinkable kind) on a rag and wipe down the bed when I first start to heat the bed up. That has helped my adhesion. I have the Ender 3 Pro which has the magnet bed, not the glass, so not sure what type of bed you have.

Thanks for the tip brian. Ive got the glass bed right now, but ive been lookin at gettin some of the flexible bed plates. Ill try that alcohol trick next time. Ive got to get the cage printed, hopefully tonight

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[Greatscott]

Originally Posted by B-MOW71

Welcome to the club! Endless possibilities and a must have tool!

Not sure if this will apply to you, but I always before each print, spray some alcohol (non drinkable kind) on a rag and wipe down the bed when I first start to heat the bed up. That has helped my adhesion. I have the Ender 3 Pro which has the magnet bed, not the glass, so not sure what type of bed you have.

Originally Posted by indybama

Thanks for the tip brian. Ive got the glass bed right now, but ive been lookin at gettin some of the flexible bed plates. Ill try that alcohol trick next time. Ive got to get the cage printed, hopefully tonight

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I clean both of my print beds with isopropyl right before printing (before the bed gets heated) and have really good success with adhesion. My Mini Prusa has a magnetic bed, and my CR-10 has coated glass.

Both of these printers have served me well, but both are getting a bit long in the tooth. I was just a day away from pulling the trigger on a Bambu A1 when the whole line got recalled. I am hoping they fix their bed cabling issue soon and get them back in to production.

[indybama]

Originally Posted by Greatscott

I clean both of my print beds with isopropyl right before printing (before the bed gets heated) and have really good success with adhesion. My Mini Prusa has a magnetic bed, and my CR-10 has coated glass.



Both of these printers have served me well, but both are getting a bit long in the tooth. I was just a day away from pulling the trigger on a Bambu A1 when the whole line got recalled. I am hoping they fix their bed cabling issue soon and get them back in to production.

Id love to have a bambu, but its a bit out on my range n i need more practice at the cad n printing before i spend that kind of dough lol

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[Col_Sanders]

Originally Posted by indybama

Id love to have a bambu, but its a bit out on my range n i need more practice at the cad n printing before i spend that kind of dough lol

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The A1 was $400 unless you wanted multi color prints then the price jumped up to ~$600 IIRC.

I bought a P1S combo several months ago. Its capable of printing all kinds of filament if I just upgrade extruder gears and the nozzle but so far all I have used is PLA, PETG, and ASA. My CAD skills are lacking. I've only been printing other people's designs.

[indybama]

Originally Posted by Col_Sanders

The A1 was $400 unless you wanted multi color prints then the price jumped up to ~$600 IIRC.



I bought a P1S combo several months ago. Its capable of printing all kinds of filament if I just upgrade extruder gears and the nozzle but so far all I have used is PLA, PETG, and ASA. My CAD skills are lacking. I've only been printing other people's designs.

I feel u. The prints ive done, were from harley. I havent done CAD since high school, n thats been 25 yrs ago lol. Dang, now i feel old. But im in the process of gettin a decent program to try. Wat i did print came out pretty good. I happened to time the switch almost perfectly on the seats. Broke the cage, tryin to get the supports broke free, but ill make it work

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[smog]

Originally Posted by Col_Sanders

The A1 was $400 unless you wanted multi color prints then the price jumped up to ~$600 IIRC.



I bought a P1S combo several months ago. Its capable of printing all kinds of filament if I just upgrade extruder gears and the nozzle but so far all I have used is PLA, PETG, and ASA. My CAD skills are lacking. I've only been printing other people's designs.

I also picked up the PS1 a short time ago when they were on sale. Seems like a good little printer. I too have yet to design anything, I am finding it hard to find time for much of anything RC related these days ...

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[c0bra]

I’ve had a p1s and ams unit for almost about 9 months and it’s been great. Primarily use it to print esun abs+ with the occasional pla. It’s been a work horse ever since.

I’ve printed all the parts to convert the voron v0.2 to a Pandora’s box, currently printing parts to do a belted z conversion on the voron trident 300 as well as other custom primarily Rc parts.

Only issues have been needing to replace the nozzle once, and ams slot 1&2 are having issues lately. I think the ams issue are more because I really only use slot 1&2, the others are just used as a dry box


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[bgredjeep]

For anyone looking to design your own parts, I highly recommend checking out the Harley Designs stl Sunday Playlist. Get a copy of fusion 360 with the free personal use license and follow along with his process to learn the tool. With some practice you can pretty much draw anything you want. I watched this one a few years ago to get me started. Since then I've drawn and printed loads of parts for my rigs. Anything I think others might find useful I share on my thingiverse page.

https://www.youtube.com/live/xItqF3R...HI0EsWSl8hh_5z

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Greatscott

The other night I was soldering up a battery pack for a friend, and it really hit me how much I disliked my solder stand. It was one of my first projects I made when I started using Fusion 360 and printing. After about an hour of staring at the solder stand, I had a good idea of what I wanted for my next one. About an hour on the computer and about 20 hours of print time, I have this little gem. This is so much more functional... This is what I love about the whole 3D printing thing...

Untitled by Scott O, on Flickr

Nice design! I really like it.

[Col_Sanders]

Originally Posted by c0bra

I’ve had a p1s and ams unit for almost about 9 months and it’s been great. Primarily use it to print esun abs+ with the occasional pla. It’s been a work horse ever since.

I’ve printed all the parts to convert the voron v0.2 to a Pandora’s box, currently printing parts to do a belted z conversion on the voron trident 300 as well as other custom primarily Rc parts.

Only issues have been needing to replace the nozzle once, and ams slot 1&2 are having issues lately. I think the ams issue are more because I really only use slot 1&2, the others are just used as a dry box


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Slot 3 gave me a bunch of issues. One time I had about a 1/2" long piece of filament break off in the 4:1 hub in the bottom of the AMS. I took that thing apart 3x before I finally found it. I could tell by the color it was from slot 3, but I had not used that color in a while so not sure exactly what made it finally jam up. I just quit using that slot for now.