I need some unrelated to flashlights. Unique housing for my diy night vision.
It would be nice if we would have our member here that could do .stl for us at certain price. To make our unique ideas real(well at least in plastic housing ) Earning some $ to cover some house expenses is not bad idea. Especially if you are talented software user individual.
I use Google sketchup with some plugins to model with. I haven’t done anything crazy with it but I can do basic things at least. The print bed is roughly 8”x 8” x 7” (LWH) so I can do relatively large prints. I could do a BLF GT lens cap for example.
I did print the BLF GT lens cap and it came out okay. This was printed at a .2mm layer height. If I choose to do .1mm it would have more detail in the letters but it would have taken significantly longer. This print took about 7 hours to do because of the slow speeds of my printer… Notice the artifacts/defects such as stray lines caused by extruder feedrate issues and bed leveling. I’m about to buy a much better printer (hopefully) and I’ll be able to print with higher resolution and better dimensional accuracy which is important for the right fit when printing something like a lens cap.
I’m seriously considering buying a new 3D printer. I would not mind printing things for people and I can 3D model to a small extent. As long as people are willing to pay for shipping and the small price it would cost in filament to print them. The only problem is that I travel quite often for work. I’ll be gone this whole month installing an A/V system in a federal courthouse.
I’m on the list to get one soon so I’m not able to try. With new advancements in printer filament I can print flexible rubber like lens caps that would probably be pretty nice. It’s called NinjaFlex filament.
The place I was looking at to get this made would use a nylon plastic, Has some flex to it while being strong and durable. As they describe it.
Example:
This was made same place, same material too, the battery door:
I just looked up ninja flex, if same thing seen here, it’s not something I would want. I know everyone is all over that soft lens cap, but it’s not for me, don’t want something squishy. My GT will be moved around vehicle to vehicle just by the shoulder strap I have for it:
cool idea.
i got 3d printer for new year’s, my wife got me one, cr10s. so far i have nothing but problems printing anything, layers separation, stringing…only 2 prints came out fine, both were samples on sd card that came with printer. at first i wanted to print entire light body, and a spitfire from 3d lab print, even bought the program, but now i think it would be a lot easier and faster to do it old school way. very disappointed, i spend 2 days adjusting it, fixing gcode, and still can’t print anything right. if it was not wife’s present, it’d be in a garbage by now.