3d Printers South Africa

[eye_suc]

I see they are "refills", like the idea and it's awesome to see locally made supplies.

Yes, naked filament. Lemme go take some pics for you

 

[B-1]

Don't think this kapton tape is gonna work. I shouldn't be able to see the uv light behind it if it's blocking it right? Everywhere seems to say it blocks uv. Hmmm.

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UV light falls outside of what humans can see so no you shouldn't be able to see it. But kapton tape is also notoriously bad quality from most chinese manufacturers so I wouldn't trust that either.

 

[karnuffel]

Yep, el cheapo stuff, but very flat and temp resistant. ClearVue glass sourced from Extrusion World

How are you getting ABS to stick?

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Nutella Glass Candy Dispenser by sui77

NEW UPDATED PARTS: Props to @rolf_prusa_printer, who has done an awesome job by redesigning the inner parts, screw + handle to be more sturdy and work with bigger sweets, fixing some frequent issues. I took his files with minor modifications. Follow and leave him a like at printables...

www.thingiverse.com

There you go! Was very fun to assemble and appears to work. Just make sure you can source some Nutella jars

Thank you, kids will empty out those nutella jars in not time

Wife loves it.

 

[eye_suc]

How are you getting ABS to stick?

With a nice thing layer of Magigoo. It is truly amazing stuff. It holds onto the ABS at 110°C and once it cools down to about 70 or 60°C you can hear cracking as it is released from the bed. Will try and make a video of it and demonstrate.

Here are some pics of their filament @Other Pineapple Smurf

Early prototype spool. It worked OK but the glue sometimes gave way. This was very cheap to make, just a bit labour intensive to put together, then you wait for it to dry, THEN only you can wind it.



Some PLA on the latest spool. Wood sides with printed core.


Fully printed spool, printed in Funkiments ABS


Action shot of another PLA spool


His filament works out the cheapest per KG, but on top of that his tolerances are really tight. Once my spools are empty its a quick process of just slapping on a refill and I'm off to the races.

Here is a lil video I made to show how easy it is to slap on a new spool:

 

[xrapidx]

Forgot he's stuff needs a spool.... Probably need to get printing

 

[RedViking]

Forgot he's stuff needs a spool.... Probably need to get printing

Who we talking about?

 

[saor]

Who we talking about?

Funkiments.

 

[RedViking]

Funkiments.

How much they cost for 1Kg and shipping? Do they have black IN STOCK.? quickly try to get some info of their horrible mobile site but not loading properly

 

[RedViking]

R225 per KG. NO STOCK.

 

[xrapidx]

R225 per KG. NO STOCK.

Useless

Checkout filament factory. More your type of place.

 

[RedViking]

Checkout filament factory. More your type of place.

Personally stay far away. I had horrible prints with their stuff.

esun awesome.

 

[gregmcc]

What do you guys use for creating 3D models? I've been printing basic stuff from thingverse but now its time to start designing my own models. Mostly simple boxes with a slot for a SD cart to be used in retro computers.
Thought about downloading something similar from thingverse and modifying it but seems a mission to edit STL files.

I've started looking at FreeCad but looks way too complicated

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

I'm going to start with TinkerCad as my wife wants me to print our house number and street name in large letters (will be priming and base coating so not worried about SBS durability in sun).

My teenager saw Fusion360 and he wants to give that one a go. Since he will be going to a high school that teaches technical drawing (old school metal work teacher there), if he gets into it I will look at upgrading if he hits the limit.

I also will most likely just be between Tinker and Fusion for the next while as most of my printing is basic letters, stock display units and Thingyverse mods.

 

[RedViking]

What do you guys use for creating 3D models? I've been printing basic stuff from thingverse but now its time to start designing my own models. Mostly simple boxes with a slot for a SD cart to be used in retro computers.
Thought about downloading something similar from thingverse and modifying it but seems a mission to edit STL files.

I've started looking at FreeCad but looks way too complicated

Fusion360

 

[saor]

Fusion360

This. And there's plenty tutorials.

 

[gregmcc]

Thanks - will give it a whirl this weekend. I see there are lots of YT videos for beginners.

 

[eye_suc]

R225 per KG. NO STOCK.

Useless

He made loads of black PLA this week. All sold.
He cannot make filament fast enough, it is that popular.

I am a big fan of eSun. Funkiments is better, but that is only my humble opinion.

 

[eye_suc]

How much they cost for 1Kg and shipping? Do they have black IN STOCK.? quickly try to get some info of their horrible mobile site but not loading properly

Anything in particular wrong with the site? I can relay the message.

 

[RedViking]

Anything in particular wrong with the site? I can relay the message.

Maybe let them just load it on their phones and see if everything load properly and if all buttons and drop downs work using different browsers.

You know when they gonna have black in stock?