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howardb
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Many thanks, will try
howardb
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Someone suggested using clear resin and adding red 3D colour or pigment, would that work? Or would it go cloudy/unclear?
Kosmik
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Think it would depend on the strength of your tint? That's basically what you would be doing.
Food colouring?
howardb
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If I look at the ratio of 3D magenta pigment to clear resin, it should be 100g resin to 0.82g of pigment to get a good red transparent colour. Never used pigments with resin before. Only used gray resin for prints to date.
Not sure about food colouring option...
What exactly are you after?
I have a physical sample. Around 25mm Dia and about 60mm long.
Not to complex. No overhangs (think I used that correctly). Just a 3/4" thread and some 2mm through holes. Difficult to explain.
I need about 30 units for now and on going.
Any reason you're not just getting it machined? Metal 3d printing is still a bit niche locally so can't imagine it'll be much cheaper than getting it cnc'd.
My mom paid over R1000 for a couple of these as Christmas gifts, said the quality was poor and had to return them.
My wife then asked me to print some for bathroom, not 100% sure how you'd actually get them to print poorly, was a very easy print.
My wife then asked me to print some for bathroom, not 100% sure how you'd actually get them to print poorly, was a very easy print.
Other Pineapple Smurf
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I notice the Etsy crowd print on fast-n-crap setting while using low-quality filament.My mom paid over R1000 for a couple of these as Christmas gifts, said the quality was poor and had to return them.
My wife then asked me to print some for bathroom, not 100% sure how you'd actually get them to print poorly, was a very easy print.
Where did you get those files, they look amazing.
Kosmik
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Could very much have to do with infill levels etc.... and decent filament. but I've printed a few functional prints with cheap filament and a tuned printer does fine with it.
Other Pineapple Smurf
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That makes the biggest difference and not everyone takes the time to do it. I struggled like crazy until I learnt how to dial it in and now all my print look good regardless of filament quality.
Yeh, I got mine fairly well tuned, and after I added the CR touch - prints come out near perfect. I "recreate" the mesh each time I remove the glass - and then kick off the print.
No clue actually, I've had them awhile, came up from one of the sites when searching for Robert planters
karnuffel
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I have the STL files but I cannot for the life of me remember where I got them
Other Pineapple Smurf
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Thanks guys, googling the name brings up many hits for these planters
Ya, there are tons of different ones, playing guitar, feeding the dog, weight lifting, etc. I just have five that came as a single zip - wish these sites would include a txt file with the URL (like some thingiverse downloads)
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What is the best place to print hand size or smaller size models? Like the old army men toys?