3D printed 18650 holder

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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.

@SikSemper

If you wanted to sell that cap I’d take it off your hands :wink:

If not no worries :+1:

I’ll try one out from the place i’m looking at.

Man…gotta jump on the forum and get the proper settings…takes a bit of tweaking, plus there are a few printable mods that make printing alot easier.

I would KILL for a large print volume CR10…but my Anet A8 does fine.

What slicer are you using…also…slow down the prints if things aren’t working.
What are you printing ABS or PLA?
Do you have a filament oiler/filter (trust me that goes a LONG way in helping prints)
What layer height do you print at…I find that on my Anet A8 if I slice by .4 layers such as .16/.2/2.4 the layers do better
Stringing, set your retraction speed higher, mine retracts at 40mm and 4.5mm might tweak those up to test
Oh and lube the rods…

It took me and my son over 2 weeks to tweaking and printing buckets of calibration cubes and calicats to finally dial it in.
Our Delta printer the Anycubic Kossel took us over a month of dialing in…those suckers take tweaking and then some!

Don’t give up man…those are some of the best printers out there

Before you trash it…give it to meeeeeeeee :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m out of town for a month starting today unfortunately. Maybe when I get back though. I’d like to try other materials and experiment with some settings and see if I can get it a little nicer.

I get what you mean there. I would probably only use it on small tube style lights where it’s less of a concern.

The cheetah flex looks promising.

PETG is fairly flexible…but not “squishy”

Guys,

What about polymer for 3d printing? Available or not?

That is the best plastic out there for sure(glock 19, springfield xdm etc.) ?

Temps are too high for the extruders…most of those are injected molded at MUCH higher temps than the GP printers we buy

What about ABS? That is almost next to polymer for performance?

I know the guy who made these :smiley:

ABS is good, but it melts with solvents (much stronger than PLA, and more flexible, PLA is brittle)

Acetone and other really refined petrochemical products

PETG if printed with high infill can be very rigid and strong, it is quite flexible

Sounds interesting, care to share more details? Maybe in a new thread so as not to derail this one.

Not that I can afford it ATM but I’ve just started looking into making something myself.

thanks for the tips,
i use cura slicer, i used pla fillament, print speed was 20iirc, travel speed 150-200. layer 0.1. but i played with settings quite a lot.
however yesterday i may have found a reason , at least for layer separation, one wheel on extruder was loose, the print head had some serious play. that would explain why first 2 prints came out fine.
stringing however i have to play with retract distance and travel speed. i wasted all filament, i got to order more and try again.

if it took you 2 weeks to adjust yours, i may just get mine work right, i only messed with it for 2 days.

cr10 has another problem the bed is caved in in the middle, from what i’ve learned from reading forums it is common. i can level corners, but middle i can not, looks like i will have to drill a hole under the bed, cut a thread and install another adjusmet knob for the middle.

also there is another issue, when it starts printing, it raises the head about half inch and starts extruding while it is still in the air, it lowers the head too slow. i found a line of code that does it, when i removed it slicer shows it starts print on the bed, not in the air, but i have to try it, once i get the filament, i’ll see for sure if it helps.

i do not think any filament you buy will be as strong or as temp resistant as plastic used in handguns.

iirc the toughest filament is carbon fiber, (there are also pla\abs with c\fibers) but it requires 300c temp, and you’d need stainless steel print tip.
my printer only goes up to 260c

Next time you seem him say thank you for me. :wink: :smiley:

Soon I’ll get one made if I ever stop procrastinating :blush:

Nothing that is 3d printed, using the FDM technology, is as strong as injection molded plastic.
At least not at this point.

That doesnt mean that 3d printed objects are not strong.

I’m looking at the creality ender 2. Nice and little 3d printer.
Would be great to be able to print some small prototype’s.

Yeah, that is the pre-gcode

Gotta tweak it a bit before you run it…it extrudes that tiny bit before it lowers to the bed to prime the nozzle…on my after g-code I have it retract 4mm before it shuts down to prevent the oozing from the hot end cooling down but the plastic still soft

If worse comes to worse…put a dab of blue loktite on the threads on stuff that comes loose…all the screws on my Anet A8 are loktited

Print alot of small calibration items…tweak, then re-print, tweak re-print

other people on forums and whatnot will have better cura and slic3r profiles to use as well

Might even try to take your bed, and put on your knee and see if you can flex it flat again…also might get a piece of glass to see if it can flatten it out

I’ll shaddap now and let the forum return to it’s regularly scheduled postings