3d Printers South Africa

[Park@82]

Time to play a bit.

It sucks that I was born too early. If I was in my early teens today I'd lose my s**t with stuff you can do with the "Dummy 13" range.
Also, yesterday was the first time I tried printing anything other than PLA. I got some SA Filament Speed PETG in, and judging by how it's going this might be my new favorite and go-to filament for almost everything.

The stuff prints insanely well and I've stopped getting on-and-off print failures on tiny complicated models that used to give me trouble with (SA Filament & Creality Ender) PLA due to collisions and bed adhesion. It might also be 'cause it's high speed filament so works great with the A1.

The stringing is the only "issue" but that doesn't bother me (if it's kept in check of course), I've always wanted to get a proper cordless heat gun anyway.

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Happy Friday everyone, get those printers warmed up.

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I also printed some of those a couple of months back. Was a bit of a pain to get the parts clipped into each other. I heard that it helps to scale the amour up 2-3% for easier assembly.

 

[nulkoel]

I also printed some of those a couple of months back. Was a bit of a pain to get the parts clipped into each other. I heard that it helps to scale the amour up 2-3% for easier assembly.

They're a lot of fun! This model is the reason why I bought PETG for the first time (as well as a filament dryer...) and we had to reprint 1 or 2 armor pieces several times, but their articulation makes them so great.

 

[Crowley]

Printed a 15cm Pokeball with a stand for one of my son's friends this week.

 

[ronz91]

I have ordered a new nozzle for the K1 Max at work but I see the nozzle has play.
Does something just need tightening or could it be more serious?

 

[Crowley]

I have ordered a new nozzle for the K1 Max at work but I see the nozzle has play.
Does something just need tightening or could it be more serious?

Did you warm up the heating block before you installed the nozzle?

 

[ronz91]

Did you warm up the heating block before you installed the nozzle?

this is the old nozzle, new 1 is still on the way

i would rather order any other needed spares one time if needed

 

[B-1]

Last weekends project. A MoOde streamer/player.

 

[RaptorSA]

The forum thread post notifications have been letting me down.
I thought nothing was going on here.

Anyway, it's the same ol' me so you know what's coming....
The Trike is a big b*tch.... it's yet again something you cannot appreciate until you hold a version of it in your hands.

40+ years of living in Africa and none of the large mammals we have come close to being an analogue as to WTF this thing must have been like.

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Looks how awesome this view is:
"Barrel chested" doesn't even come close... it just makes you wonder how complex that digestive system could have been.

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Also, unless you're a real dino-dork you won't understand how satisfying it is to finally have an accurate set of Triceratops feet where it's actually walking on its toes, instead of some elephantine foot looking k@k.

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Sigh, why do I do this to myself.
Paid actual money for my next project model, so the heat is on this time.
We'll start with a Jurassic herbivore, then maybe do an Allosaurus to go with it in future..

The problem is, this model was made for resin printing so it's going to be fun to somehow get this working.
I was kind of hoping the model would include the resin supports since are some blender community tools out there that allow you to convert miniatures with resin supports into stronger/bigger resin supports that'll work with FDM, but alas, the model has no pre-baked supports in sight.

Gonna aim for a +-1 meter 70-80cm long print, so will likely need to slice the hell out of it.



My poor little MiniPC is already k@kking itself....
More triangles than I have brain cells, definitely can't complain about model detail, the .stl's were one GB.



The model details is nuts:




Wish me luck.
And apologies if I use up all the country's PLA due to all the coming attempts.

(I'm also tempted to do this using my SA filament PETG given how much success I've had with it, it that probably opens me up to a lot of issues when the day comes that I have to paint it)

 

[RaptorSA]

Sigh, why do I do this to myself.
Paid actual money for my next project model, so the heat is on this time.
We'll start with a Jurassic herbivore, then maybe do an Allosaurus to go with it in future..

The problem is, this model was made for resin printing so it's going to be fun to somehow get this working.
I was kind of hoping the model would include the resin supports since are some blender community tools out there that allow you to convert miniatures with resin supports into stronger/bigger resin supports that'll work with FDM, but alas, the model has no pre-baked supports in sight.

Gonna aim for a +-1 meter 70-80cm long print, so will likely need to slice the hell out of it.

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My poor little MiniPC is already k@kking itself....
More triangles than I have brain cells, definitely can't complain about model detail, the .stl's were one GB.

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The model details is nuts:

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Wish me luck.
And apologies if I use up all the country's PLA due to all the coming attempts.

(I'm also tempted to do this using my SA filament PETG given how much success I've had with it, it that probably opens me up to a lot of issues when the day comes that I have to paint it)

4 Days of model tweaking and almost nonstop printing and I can finally get to assembly.
Not bad, I'm definitely getting better at this.

This thing looks in incredible in person... it's a huuuge b*tch... I'm rapidly running out of space in my home, I'm considering doing a cash-in-transit robbery so I can buy a warehouse in the area and retire in peace and printing.