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Funny story. I bought a printer for my kids this year. An Anycubic Mega Zero with a magnetic base. It stays pretty calibrated but I have struggled with base adhesion once a few prints have been through it. IPA and abrasives have not fixed it...maybe I will get around to some other things...there have been a few random failures, but not many. We printed a few novelties items that came out OK. The real learning curve i…
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> FYI a 3D printer is super affordable nowadays This seriously cannot be understated enough. When I was in my final year of high school (2012) my shop teacher was the first person in the entire school board to get a 3D printer, one of the cheapest machines on the market (I can't remember the brand, or the name, only the number at the bottom of the invoice - $11,374.38). He got the machine in February and tasked me to…
Don't forget no proprietary ink. I too bought an Ender 3 V2, it was about £280 I got it the second it launched in the UK. Print quality is greatz and once you learn its limitations you can upgrade. First upgrade is to replace the bed springs with stronger "yellow springs", look them up on Amazon. They're stronger than the stock ones and you'll need to level the bed less often. Learn to level manually, give it a year…
- buildings on various planets/moons
- replacement organs
- teeth and bone structures
- electronics and various nanotech systems
- food
- clothing
- automatic self-assembly components
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Don't forget no proprietary ink. I too bought an Ender 3 V2, it was about £280 I got it the second it launched in the UK. Print quality is greatz and once you learn its limitations you can upgrade. First upgrade is to replace the bed springs with stronger "yellow springs", look them up on Amazon. They're stronger than the stock ones and you'll need to level the bed less often. Learn to level manually, give it a year…
I didn't see any mention on a controller board upgrade. For me, that was one of the biggest upgrades as it made the stock motors whisper quiet.
Can anyone 3D print a spark plug? Spark plugs are interesting examples of ubiquitous and essential objects with a particular combination of mechanical and electrical requirements.
I started writing the comment with "I highly doubt it", but as I was writing, I think it is a very interesting question. And it might be possible. Like you said, spark plugs require high-heat and high electrical insulation properties. Hence why spark plugs are made out of ceramics (or glass) and metal. Spark plugs also have a heat rating, which indicates how well the plug is able to extract heat from the tip. If the…
Can you think of other common (even if usually unseen) objects that are especially bad matches for what 3D printing can practically create? Optical lenses and ball bearings also come to mind, but somehow they are less interesting than spark plugs.
And don't talk to me about Blender and the like. I'm thinking about getting a Wacom Intuos pro.
I'm done, I can't get the monkey off my back. I see it coming, hundreds of printed miniatures stacked in boxes, unpainted. Some of them probably designed by myself in the foreseeable future.
So maybe I should make the best of it and sell them as a side/hobby business...
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Perhaps we have it backwards. I'm in the UK. If I saw a company that did 'engineering' I would expect to walk in and see someone at a lathe. I work in the West Midlands a lot and this is especially true. An engineer may drive a train or maintain ships propulsion in the English speaking world. A Civil Engineering company builds roads and bridges, and may not have any Chartered Engineers on the staff. I know several pe…
Yeah, maybe. But that's what I mean about 'barely even a trade' - takes a lot more know-how to operate a lathe (per your example) than to do a lot of the 'handyman' type jobs that we get told 'an engineer' will be sent out for. Fwiw I'm not CEng, EE by degree, but work in SE. I'd like the IET & chartership to be more relevant for SE, but all I meant by that was that we have it, but don't (as some other countries do)…
Funny story. I bought a printer for my kids this year. An Anycubic Mega Zero with a magnetic base. It stays pretty calibrated but I have struggled with base adhesion once a few prints have been through it. IPA and abrasives have not fixed it...maybe I will get around to some other things...there have been a few random failures, but not many. We printed a few novelties items that came out OK. The real learning curve i…
You’re telling this as a funny story, but to an outside observer that sounds horrifyingly dystopian. Someone improperly reported you like they were getting side-pay by the Stasi and four armed government agents showed up at your door to accost you over a personal possession within your own home. Absolutely nuts, and ironically why many people consider personal firearm possession essential to freedom.
edit: apparently this didn't happen in the USA?