3d Printers South Africa

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Had a weekend of doing print in place damage tokens for Gloomhaven. Learning slot around bed levelling and print adhesion.

I enjoy the challenge of debugging failed prints. This cold temperature have caused curling and other side effects I did not anticipate.

Setting up ESP32 Cam this week to monitor my printer and then start building the printer housing in the garage.

 

[Werfetter]

Where do you see the 3mm parts in the BOM? The only things that I believe that you may see is the bowden tube on the direct drive extruder for feeding the filament into the extruder. They use a 3mm inner diameter and fittings because there is less friction when pulling the 1.75mm filament through it.
I would only use 3mm filament on printers that will run 0.6mm nozzles or bigger with a high flow hotend. We used to only get 3mm long ago but 1.75 is better for 90% of the time so unless you know why you need it dont go that route.

That would actually make perfect sense. I saw the 3mm PTFE tube and 3mm coupling and made assumptions.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Using the ESP32-Cam to monitor my printer. I will set it at a better angle once I build a dedicated area for it.

Will add a flame sensor and heat & humidity sensor to it with a "kill switch" relay.

Paid R230 for it yesterday.

 

[saor]

Lol @ that brim.

 

[karnuffel]

Lol @ that brim.

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Getting a brim like that must have been hard…

 

[B-1]

Using the ESP32-Cam to monitor my printer. I will set it at a better angle once I build a dedicated area for it.

Will add a flame sensor and heat & humidity sensor to it with a "kill switch" relay.

Paid R230 for it yesterday.

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Was wondering if they would be good enough for that task. I just got a Pi zero for my new build but a camera will be nice.

 

[B-1]

Got most of the frame together and started on some of the Z axis for my new VzBot. Also printed/assembled most of the EVA carriage. I should start getting some of the orders in over the next 2 weeks and my old printer has been running almost non stop to print parts. Hoping most of the parts get here before the long weekend so I can get some more work done on it.

 

[saor]

New toy day.
Form3.

 

[xrapidx]

What do you guys think of using a small glass fish tank to create a ABS smoothing chamber? (30cm x 30cm x 30cm odd)

Thought of looking for a second hand one - and putting a fan or something in the lid to "suck" air up and out.

 

[howardb]

What do you guys think of using a small glass fish tank to create a ABS smoothing chamber? (30cm x 30cm x 30cm odd)

Thought of looking for a second hand one - and putting a fan or something in the lid to "suck" air up and out.

Not sure if the acetone will eat through the silicone of the fish tank?

 

[xrapidx]

Not sure if the acetone will eat through the silicone of the fish tank?

Will have to be trial and error, googled silicone and it seems semi-safe from acetone.

 

[saor]

Can't post the whole picture but...the clarity with a new tank of clear resin is always cool to see.

 

[karnuffel]

Can't post the whole picture but...the clarity with a new tank of clear resin is always cool to see.

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Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[karnuffel]

Where do you guys buy your filament and spares from? DIY Electronics has treated me well, but Im finding more and more that the filament and spares I want are scattered between 3 or 4 online shops which is quite frustrating to be honest.

 

[xrapidx]

Yeh, I've found that to be a constant problem. Want to order various small parts - but not a single store has stock of everything I need.

 

[Werfetter]

Yeah, I have seriously started considering just importing what I need. DIY seems to be out of stock of most of the parts I want nowadays in any case and ordering from multiple local online stores just don't feel like worth the hassle...

 

[Cosmic_Nomad]

Pi shop and DIY are always out of stock of the interesting parts and what you want. Amazon for the win.

 

[ronz91]

How much will a basic hobby printer set one back these days?

 

[xrapidx]

Yeah, I have seriously started considering just importing what I need. DIY seems to be out of stock of most of the parts I want nowadays in any case and ordering from multiple local online stores just don't feel like worth the hassle...

I did just that, ordered from Amazon - waiting delivery.

Not sure of the quality, but also added 50 various size and metal nozzles for R250. So overseas is also considerably cheaper.

 

[eye_suc]

How much will a basic hobby printer set one back these days?

I would say about R6000 for the Ender 3 V2, but you can source them for cheaper now and then. Black Friday will be R4000 probably