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Adventures In 3D Printing
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Maybe you could fix him.. Either glue or a 3d pen..
Or....I was thinking I could print a new one. I also need to reprint my Wall-e because the sales department broke him.
I need to make it a rule that no one gets to touch my toys.
They broke wall-e too !!
I can see it now a new 3d printed sign saying please do not touch my toys held by Jason voorhees or michael myers or the creature from aliens or something along those lines..
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Got my printer yesterday. All the filament I ordered with it was shipped later and from farther away so I won’t get it until next week. So I ordered one from Amazon. Yes @heysi orange because orange wasn’t already purchased.
My very first print was a small print bed scraper. But this is the first substantial print because it was only one colour and I didn’t care if it was just orange.
My very first print was a small print bed scraper. But this is the first substantial print because it was only one colour and I didn’t care if it was just orange.
Dude it’s in the picture. It’s a glass drier. Which will mostly be used for wine glasses.
Spot on!
Ohhh. I didn't see a stem, I just thought it was an upside dome and thought it was some sort of feeder or waterer.
He’s probably gonna try to 3-D print a tripod since this photography skills are so terrible. I thought the same thing as you KJ.
Hey, pipe down!
FTFY
GearNoir
“The Meme Savant of the TSC”
+100 points to Gryffindor for the first person who invents a way to easily recycle prints back into filament, at home, affordably.
Maybe if printers could run off pellets. The old prints could be ground up and re-used (depending on the type of material).
There are videos online that show how to do something similar to what you mentioned @Spider , they sort of grind it and then have it flow out of sort of an extractor and wind it on a spool and after cooling it becomes " usable again .. there are also vids where they take old 2 liter or other soda bottles of varying size and cut them into a long strip and run them through a " melting tip " that makes the soda bottles into filament .. There are some very inventive people out there ....
There are people (companies?) that you can mail your waste material to and they do their thing to it and resell it. The printers that use multiple filiments at a time have a little printer poop bucket that they dump waste into so its not all just recyled print jobs. My son was less than impressed by the whole recycled material thing, apparently they don't pay you for the material or dicount the resell product.
I have seen some of those "services" advertised before and they look a little "funny" to me, as some of them make you pay to ship them your waste and then they recycle it and resell it and I noticed they don't give you a discount on buying the stuff you paid to send to them, so its basically ALL profit for them !! The youtube videos I mentioned show the individuals building the devices to recycle their own materials , thats part of why i mentioned them and said there are some very inventive people on there.
Another idea i have seen is making something of a melt and pour 3d trinket. They start by 3d printing the parts to make a mold then make a mold and pour heated material into it. Kind of cool looking stuff. At some point I am goign to try melting a mix of colors together to make blocks that I can turn on a lathe into brush handles or cut into scales for razors. In a world wear a brush handle or scales can just be printed it migth seem like more work than its worth but I like the idea enough to put it on my todo list. Maybe it will turn out like a rare and fine burl wood product
Thats a good idea. I have saw where people make a print of an item IE. a necklace pendant or a knife or whatever and then use the sand method where they make their mold using the 3d printed item and then take the item out and put the sand mold together and then poru their metal material into the mold to make the casting and then take it out and clean it up and have their new item, if that made sense... I mean If the thing they were making was a rare item that they couldnt get a hold of the authentic one then making a 3d printed replica and casting off of that is not a bad idea... I saw an old chinese weaponn made that way once that i thought was neat because there was no way to get the museum piece to make a replice of so they did the 3d print of the museum piece from photos online or found an already made STL file of it and were able to make their own.