Iām following this as I have been thinking of 3D printing for some time. Somehow I didnāt see this topic/project until just now.
the more i print the more i like hand tools.
Love your skills with the printing.
had a bit of a set back, orange abs from ic3d isnāt sticking to the bed no matter what i do, so iām using red abs instead from hatchbox, prints, and sticks beautifully. so i printed another part, side cover that will house switches. the core is on the printer, it will be a 3 day job, i decided to print 1 piece core.
Looks like some great progress!
Good work
I have been planning to get an Ender3 as a backup printer, but it would need an enclosure like yours. What is the width and depth needed to fit that thing with the moving bed?
20x26x28 is what it takes to fit cr10. for ender 3, a smaller one would do
i build mine myself, my printer didnāt come with one.
Would 20āwide x 19ādeep be enough?
core finished, now iāll have to remove lots of supports.
there was supposed to be a sign, on the back of it, it showed pretty clear in slicer, but it came out much worst, i can barely read some words others canāt read at all,
very good question, but i canāt say for sure unless i measure, and allow some room for loading filament, and moving parts.
Looks like the text on the back got lost in the layer changes. With that slant, it looks like a challenging area for text. Adaptive layer height might have helped a little bit (that is, if you didnāt use it), but it probably wouldnāt have been enough to address that. Overall, looks great. Canāt wait to see it with the supports removed.
yep, looks like exactly what happened, layers change. next time iāll either use larger letters, or do sign on flat parts, actually sides got their pattern printed nicely, and it was on vertical surface.
as i remove supports, some parts of light are not looking that great, iāll see what i can do about that, but i want to avoid acetone fume smoothing, in theory it sounds great and all, but in reality it makes parts smooth as mirror, and they are too prone to scratching, making scratches too visible, it is good for items that you do not use, or not doing anything with them. just have then on a shelf for display, but the good news is most of those places with bad finish, are internal. will take a pic when i remove all the supports.
yea for a slightly tilted top like that layers will be very visible. I imagine your slicer could be set to change to thin layers near the top. But itās just a tough place to put text.
all printed parts are done, fit is very good, only 1 part inside needs some trimming. the switch cover, some others still have a bit of brim.
Canāt wait to it assembled.
That printing looks orsm. Nice work.
thanks man, but it doesnāt compare to your bullds, not even close,
looking on your parts list I think I see drivers with tons of AMCs, they run quite hot even in a metal tube light, in a plastic light you will see massive thermal throttle of them
you mean they will output less than 350ma?
had to reprint the head due to fitting issue, several times, at the end i still had to do some sanding in the final print, i ran out of black abs, so head spacer will be red.
as you see i made a channel for oārings around led opening.