Into the 3D Printing Rabbit Hole

[Medicman71]

Very cool Stik! I have a resin printer but because of the fumes, I haven't set it up. I have enough problems with fumes from painting.

[Stikpusher]

Thanks Mike. You certainly want to set it up when you have lots of ventilation. The fumes are quite strong.

[Stikpusher]

This evening I had another go at 3D printing after my crash and burn attempts after New Years… today’s success was much more successful. The first go (on the right) was about a 50% success rate, with some breaking free during the printing process, as can be seen by the support nubs only…. a few that stayed on the base were somewhat incomplete on the bottoms of the cans for unknown reasons. The second go, started immediately after I took the first group off of the printing plate, came out much better, with all twelve ammo cans printing, although a few were also again underdeveloped on the bottoms of sides…



I’m gonna have to mess with the jerry cans that crashed and burned on the first attempt and see if I can get those to print up properly…

[keavdog]

At first glance I though you were printing ammo boxes and some sort of warheads
Seems like you're making progress.

[Stuart]

Very cool Carlos - you did a good job on those. I have to say it does look a learning curve.

[cbaltrin]

Hey that looks pretty good Carlos.
This makes me think though... the next best thing to having your own 3d printed, is having a buddy who has a 3D printer...

[Stikpusher]

At first glance I though you were printing ammo boxes and some sort of warheads
Seems like you're making progress.

Yes, there is progress... and come to think of it, those support bases would make good projectiles in an ammo rack... or some sort of bomb fuses...

Very cool Carlos - you did a good job on those. I have to say it does look a learning curve.

Thanks Stuart! Yes indeed there is a learning curve. I need my son to walk me through the set up of moving the dowloaded files in to the software program for my printer. Repetition is the key for me... And then I need to figure out how to increase the print exposure time. I see the area to do that, but can't figure out how to actually do so.

Hey that looks pretty good Carlos.
This makes me think though... the next best thing to having your own 3d printed, is having a buddy who has a 3D printer...

Thanks Chris. And yes, knowing someone with a 3D printer can be a good thing...

[keavdog]

[Stikpusher]

I like it!

[Medicman71]

This evening I had another go at 3D printing after my crash and burn attempts after New Years… today’s success was much more successful. The first go (on the right) was about a 50% success rate, with some breaking free during the printing process, as can be seen by the support nubs only…. a few that stayed on the base were somewhat incomplete on the bottoms of the cans for unknown reasons. The second go, started immediately after I took the first group off of the printing plate, came out much better, with all twelve ammo cans printing, although a few were also again underdeveloped on the bottoms of sides…



I’m gonna have to mess with the jerry cans that crashed and burned on the first attempt and see if I can get those to print up properly…

Not that I know a damn thing about 3D printing, but maybe tilt the boxes on the supports? I've seen a lot where they do that and the parts come out better.