If you need to print with any more exotic materials the guy in that video I posted above is printing things that I hadn't thought of using a 3D printer for.
What have you 3D printed for your TJ?
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If you need to print with any more exotic materials the guy in that video I posted above is printing things that I hadn't thought of using a 3D printer for.
From what I can tell, the only things I'm really interested in are PLA for generic type stuff that doesn't have strict structural or degradation issues. ABS for anything that matters a bit more and the TPU for flexible parts. All the CF and weird stuff, I don't think it's as useful once it's been exposed to the elements. If you want CF I would use 3D printing for molds. For silicone, I'd 3D print molds. You could probably even prints some Concrete molds, etc.
I will check that video out though when I get free sometime.
I guess I just figured there wasn't going to be one and committed to buying. Story of my life.
As for the double AMS, there's certainly good arguments for it. One thing I don't do, even with my single AMS, is store filaments in the unit after printing. Somewhat filament-dependent, but I don't feel like the desiccant quantity is sufficient for using the unit for longer term filament storage. But if you create something that requires more than 4 filament types (not necessarily hard to do if you use dedicated support filaments and create multi-color or multi-material designs), having multiple AMS units would definitely save you some trouble.
Bambu is certainly pumping out some good equipment. My only issues with any of their products is the use of their cloud (somewhere in China, I imagine) for transferring designs to a printer that exists on your local network. I kind of get it if one uses their mobile app, which is not something I do. I understand there is a LAN only mode now, though I haven't looked into that just yet.
This 100%. Unless you like tinkering with stuff, because you're likely to spend more time doing that than printing. I like to tinker, but I bought a 3D printer to make functional parts, I've got a Jeep LJ when I want to tinker.
I still have the P1S (an excellent printer) in case I decide to start a small farm, but I have my first printer (a SUNLU S9+) listed for next to nothing on CL and I'm hearing nothing but crickets. Not even sure if I could give it away at this point.
Something I have plans to do for laying up a carbon fiber surfski cockpit. It hadn't occurred to me when I got the printer, I was so focused on making actual parts, but it works very well for making molds.
I guess I just figured there wasn't going to be one and committed to buying. Story of my life.
As for the double AMS, there's certainly good arguments for it. One thing I don't do, even with my single AMS, is store filaments in the unit after printing. Somewhat filament-dependent, but I don't feel like the desiccant quantity is sufficient for using the unit for longer term filament storage. But if you create something that requires more than 4 filament types (not necessarily hard to do if you use dedicated support filaments and create multi-color or multi-material designs), having multiple AMS units would definitely save you some trouble.
Did you print all the extra desiccant holders for the AMS? Going into winter our house will stay pretty dry.
Not yet, it's on the to-do list. I've seen some that integrate RH displays, making it easier to monitor.
Yep, the heat will be on very soon and it won't be as much of an issue. My rental has electric baseboard and it gets really dry.
I've been using a single filament heater/dryer (55 degree max) with my P1S, which helps with moisture issues. But I have plans to use some of the engineering materials and those can be more problematic. Currently I store my filaments in sealed 20mm ammo cans (9 1kg spools per can), each spool in a freezer ziplock with desiccant in the bag and additional desiccant in the ammo can itself. I've suffered no moisture related issues to date.
Not yet, it's on the to-do list. I've seen some that integrate RH displays, making it easier to monitor.
Yep, the heat will be on very soon and it won't be as much of an issue. My rental has electric baseboard and it gets really dry.
I've been using a single filament heater/dryer (55 degree max) with my P1S, which helps with moisture issues. But I have plans to use some of the engineering materials and those can be more problematic. Currently I store my filaments in sealed 20mm ammo cans (9 1kg spools per can), each spool in a freezer ziplock with desiccant in the bag and additional desiccant in the ammo can itself. I've suffered no moisture related issues to date.
The guy in that vid I posted looks to have a pretty cheap storage solution and uses those engineering materials, says he's not had any issues.
This seems to be a trend with a lot of networked equipment these days - and its absolute crap that I won't participate in. To add insult to injury, some companies charge you for their mandatory cloud service - yet another trick to get people to buy into yet another subscription; I don't play that game either. And what happens when the cloud service, paid or otherwise, goes away; never mind the lack of security and the nuisance of the thing. I have a digital photo frame that wants you to pay a cloud subscription to use it - I just transfer photos to it with a geek stick. If it were a real network citizen, it would have a built in webpage and/or FTP server - its based on Linux, there's zero reason NOT to include such features.
I'm glad to hear Bambu has done away with that nonsense - they do have a good rep. As for 3D printers, I bought a NIB Voxelab from a dance sister, and have been learning with it. Its a bottom barrel device for sure - but fabricates pretty well. I did have to replace the extruder with a better one as the one that came with it sucked donkey balls. I had "Overture" filament recommended to me, have had good success thus far - latest one is black PLA+.
Anyone have a 3D Scanner?
I did see that, and he's certainly got more experience with those materials than I do. Actually subscribed to his channel when @FarFire70 turned me onto Send-Cut-Send via a video Matt posted (with a discount code). I'm only using the 20mm ammo cans because I had two that were not being used and it's worked out pretty well so far.
I also subscribe to Retropower, a UK-based vehicle restoration/customization/fabrication shop, who recently picked up an X1C for prototyping, place holder part printing as well as finished part development. As far as I can tell, they aren't drying their engineering filaments in ovens for 8 hours before use. Not like moisture's an issue in Britain...
I'd quite like one but the good units are still a bit salty for me to justify spending the money
I've seen them as cheap as $69 - but I'm more than a little dubious as to their utility at that price point.
I guess I just figured there wasn't going to be one and committed to buying. Story of my life.
As for the double AMS, there's certainly good arguments for it. One thing I don't do, even with my single AMS, is store filaments in the unit after printing. Somewhat filament-dependent, but I don't feel like the desiccant quantity is sufficient for using the unit for longer term filament storage. But if you create something that requires more than 4 filament types (not necessarily hard to do if you use dedicated support filaments and create multi-color or multi-material designs), having multiple AMS units would definitely save you some trouble.
Bambu is certainly pumping out some good equipment. My only issues with any of their products is the use of their cloud (somewhere in China, I imagine) for transferring designs to a printer that exists on your local network. I kind of get it if one uses their mobile app, which is not something I do. I understand there is a LAN only mode now, though I haven't looked into that just yet.
This 100%. Unless you like tinkering with stuff, because you're likely to spend more time doing that than printing. I like to tinker, but I bought a 3D printer to make functional parts, I've got a Jeep LJ when I want to tinker.
They do have the LAN printer only, but the last time I checked it was MUCH more expensive than the rest and just like everyone I'm a bit cheap/lazy and I know governments around the world likely have me on lists
. I'm mainly just printing stuff for the kitchen and my toolbox and fishing, etc, but I'm a bit cheap and I was already dropping what was kind of a lot IMO and it's hard to justify, just for the security that I've likely already given up just by carrying my phone everywhere I go.I was thinking of giving away my old printer, which has a minor issue in the coding, but I just got tired of messing with it and I was about to ask a buddy at work if he wanted it and before I could ask, he asked me if I wanted both of his printers.
These do really have a place if you like to make stuff though. It's really the software you design in that's the bigger issue IMO. I really like Solidworks and luckily I have that at work, plus they've been pushing us to train more in it as they're trying to add 3D scanning to our shop, which has got me kind of really excited about printing as well, because that stuff they're going to use is WAY out of my budget, but I'll be able to scan in my Jeep and then some at that point and I've been thinking of trying to scan in my truck dash and maybe I can make a mold set for a nice FG dash.
As well you should be.
I figure it works about the same as with the printers. You might be able to get a scan of something with the cheap ones, but it might take a bit of extra work on the scanning. As well, there might be additional data cleanup with what the device gives you in the end.
We're supposed to be getting a 3D scanner for industrial jobs soon. I don't know what kind of size, but one issue might be that on the scale they are looking to get, that it may not be as precise for smaller stuff, but we work on stuff the size of a house and we need it to be +/-.001".
That stuff looks cool, but in practice some of that stuff wasn't as useful as I thought once we learned how to use it. I'm hoping it'll be useful though and hoping that I'll get to "train" on it by scanning in stuff for personal use. I couldn't imagine there being an issue as long as I wasn't using any consumables to use it when we aren't terribly busy. Some of the things I've actually learned how to do for personal use has actually really helped me later on at work so usually they're pretty relaxed as long it doesn't really cost them anything directly and it's safe.
I've heard about that one, the X1E, but like you I prefer the more cost-effective option. I'm not running a 3D printing business here (and even if I was, not sure if the X1E would the right choice).
Yeah, seems like they're even hard to give away. I've notice there's a glut of used 3D printers on CL as well.
I'm an old CAD jockey, 3D modeler and render/animation guy (though not my current employment), so that's never been much of an issue for me...though I am using some pretty dated design software at this point (because I own it and didn't want to move to subscription based stuff that's standard now). For years it's been the opposite for me, being able to develop designs digitally with no way of making them real, until now.
I'm an old CAD jockey, 3D modeler and render/animation guy (though not my current employment), so that's never been much of an issue for me...though I am using some pretty dated design software at this point (because I own it and didn't want to move to subscription based stuff that's standard now). For years it's been the opposite for me, being able to develop designs digitally with no way of making them real, until now.
Have you tried a free version of Fusion 360?
Not yet, though I probably should give it a look. Isn't that cloud based?
Old habits die hard, I suppose, and I've got my software tweaked to suit my workflow so it's even harder to consider changing up. I'm still doing most of my solid modeling (for prints) in AutoCAD, 3DS Max for everything else.