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RE: Latest Delivery - awemawson - 07-02-2017
Look at Cetus3D - I'm extremely pleased with mine:
https://www.cetus3d.com/
Worked straight out of the box, needed no alignment and produces pretty accurate parts
Thread here about me choosing it and getting it working:
http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,12104.0.html
RE: Latest Delivery - Vinny - 07-02-2017
Stan, I'm printing the parts for one (the BQ Ciclop) as I type. Doing the back cover now. Have the laser holders, camera holder, disc holder and some other parts already done. The big time consuming ones are done, just let them run all nite and most of the next day while we're working on the kitchen (cabinets, etc). The camera and lasers will be here next week. Gotta figure out what else I need yet.
RE: Latest Delivery - Dr Stan - 07-02-2017
(07-02-2017, 09:15 PM)Vinny Wrote: Stan, I'm printing the parts for one (the BQ Ciclop) as I type. Doing the back cover now. Have the laser holders, camera holder, disc holder and some other parts already done. The big time consuming ones are done, just let them run all nite and most of the next day while we're working on the kitchen (cabinets, etc). The camera and lasers will be here next week. Gotta figure out what else I need yet.
I'm curious as to why you're printing parts for the BQ Ciclop as it is available as a kit.
RE: Latest Delivery - Vinny - 07-02-2017
Said kit is $125 at the cheapest. This is only costing me a little time and filament so far. I'm a cheapskate, besides it's more fun this way.
RE: Latest Delivery - Hawkeye - 07-02-2017
This is an amazing rabbit hole. No sooner do I order a printer (basically the sane as yours, Vinny) and a few rolls of filament, then I find out about more equipment that goes with it. A 3D scanner, eh? Or is that 'huh'?
RE: Latest Delivery - Mayhem - 07-02-2017
This guy offers some discount codes for some sellers in the full description of his video:
https://youtu.be/XZai_7SFsEk
RE: Latest Delivery - Mike E. - 07-03-2017
Ebay has been good to me lately. This 12" Machinist's level was delivered today. The box was not very well packaged even though I asked the seller to add a few outer layers of protection because it was a precision tool, anyway, it arrived unscathed.
I've got to give a thumbs up to " Parcel Force ", every delivery I've received from them has been undamaged.
RE: Latest Delivery - arvidj - 07-03-2017
I have this printer up and running ... Prusa3d ... with a love-hate relationship. When it first arrived it had a defective display. Given that the kit is from the Czechoslovakia getting a replacement took a while. I finally got it working but it now has lost calibration and I've not had the time or the energy to resolve that issue. When calibrating it will find 8 of the 9 calibration points on the bed but will drive the extruder into the bed attempting to detect the 9th one. Luckily [using the term loosly] it is a corner and all it does is flex the bed rather than break either the bed or the extruder. I believe it might be the PIMDA ... the thing that detects how far above the print bed the extruder is ... or the bed itself, but have not gone beyond that.
I was using PLA to start with but have been experimenting with PETG. According to the specs it is about a strong as ABS but does not have the ABS aroma when printing. Regretfully it does not respond to acetone smoothing like ABS will either, but that is the trade-off for Bev allowing me to have printer that does not offend her nose upstairs.
I also have the V2 version of this kit ... ROCKSTOCK MAX ... "in the process of being assembled". Bev is suggesting that I no longer buy kits as it takes me so long to put them together
Arvid
RE: Latest Delivery - Dr Stan - 07-03-2017
(07-02-2017, 10:35 PM)Hawkeye Wrote: A 3D scanner, eh? Or is that 'huh'?
Hawkeye,
Here's the site for a commercial scanning company that gives a good overview of the process. https://www.laserdesign.com/3d-scanning-parts-objects
The equipment can cost from just over $200.00 for a small kit to multi thousands for a big honking industrial version.
If one needs/wants to replicate an item it is virtually 100% necessary. On the other hand if one is designing from scratch it would tend to sit in the corner and gather dust.
When physicians/surgeons are planning a complex procedure such as separating twins who are conjoined at the head they will use MRI data to print skulls on which to practice. I have a skull with a severely deformed jaw that was made to plan out the surgical procedure to bring the patient's skull into a more average shape.
Stan
RE: Latest Delivery - Mayhem - 07-03-2017
(07-03-2017, 09:21 AM)arvidj Wrote: ...Bev is suggesting that I no longer buy kits as it takes me so long to put them together...
You could point out that clothes and makeup come in kit form and men have been kept waiting for countless hours whilst women assemble them
