The 3D Printer Thread

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Lazadude

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1,734 posts

164 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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As the friv purchases thread shows, there's a fair few of us with 3d printers. Thread to show what you've made, what mods you've done to your printer and useful thingiverse links.

I'm in the market for a new one, keep looking at dual extruders so I can make PVA supports.

Accelebrate

5,269 posts

218 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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Nice idea, there's also this one - https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... although posts are a bit sporadic.

I've designed a few little things - https://www.thingiverse.com/ianhampton/designs and made a few things - https://www.thingiverse.com/ianhampton/makes

SlimRick

2,258 posts

168 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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A fair collection of useless stuff:








Sway

26,701 posts

197 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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Fired my Ender 3 Pro up yesterday...

So far, a few upgrades for the printer - upper and lower filament guides, display pcb back.

And these:



Have downloaded and sliced a dozen others to put on the queue. Think I need to get octoprint setup - Mrs is always home to take prints off, but it'd be nice to be able to send direct from work.

RizzoTheRat

25,481 posts

195 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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Like others on the frivolous thread, I keep being tempted to buy one but have no idea what I'd use it for biggrin Nearly bought one when the stupid cheap impellor in the Dyson fell apart, but was too slow and the Mrs got it sorted on the warrenty hehe

How expensive does it work out in filament?

Ellb123

117 posts

82 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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Ender 3 here...

I'll go off topic and post something actually useful laugh

Oil filter removal tool for Honda filters


And in use on my DC5

Sway

26,701 posts

197 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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RizzoTheRat said:
Like others on the frivolous thread, I keep being tempted to buy one but have no idea what I'd use it for biggrin Nearly bought one when the stupid cheap impellor in the Dyson fell apart, but was too slow and the Mrs got it sorted on the warrenty hehe

How expensive does it work out in filament?
A kilo is £20. You get a lot of print for a kilo...

paulwoof

1,629 posts

158 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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I printed a steering wheel on my ender 3, always meaning to wrap the grips in suede etc but its harder than it looks ha.

currently building a new 3d printed wheel based on the mclaren gt3 wheel. Reckon I could take the grips to an upholsterer or material person and ask them if they could do it?

Ellb123

117 posts

82 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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paulwoof said:


I printed a steering wheel on my ender 3, always meaning to wrap the grips in suede etc but its harder than it looks ha.

currently building a new 3d printed wheel based on the mclaren gt3 wheel. Reckon I could take the grips to an upholsterer or material person and ask them if they could do it?
Talk to me about all the sim mods! Have you printed many other things? Shifter looks cool.

I've just got a logitech g29/pedals/shifter and looking for a few bits to print!

paulwoof

1,629 posts

158 months

Tuesday 30th July 2019
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The shifter outer cover is 3d printed but not by me.

Ordered from here, works out about £110 shipped from last time I checked, Its an awesome shifter, probably on bar with the thrustmaster th8 or whatever its called and switches to sequential shifter much easier (press and twist), I only really use it as a sequential and it has a really nice snap back to centre.
https://www.shiftershh.com/en/


I wouldnt bother trying to mod the standard one, there is a 3d printed stiffener type thing but will it doesnt do much and tends to break from the mounting point.

aside from wheels, there isnt really much else bar stuff for different rigs like 80/20 frames and stuff.

Just have a browse through thingiverse (when it decides to work) look under g27 or sim racing in the search (it can be a bit buggy and just not bring any results for some reason)



silverfoxcc

7,764 posts

148 months

Wednesday 31st July 2019
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What would it cost to do a couple prints for a Water pick up for a locomotive in 5in gauge

And what programme would you need it done in to print?

InitialDave

12,071 posts

122 months

Wednesday 31st July 2019
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I'd say Autodesk Fusion 360 is the best free CAD programme for designing stuff to be 3D printed.

Cost probably isn't that high, maybe show people an example photo of what it is you need? If it's a small item and a one-off job, a lot of hobbyists will probably do it for a nominal amount to cover postage and a pint. Depends how big it is! Let's be honest, a lot of us just like messing about with things!

In terms of "useful" prints, I've made stuff like a replacement for an unobtainable (in the UK) air filter on one of my cars:



Plus things like a steering column cowl, a few switch blanks adaptors to fit USB ports, brackets for fitting head units etc.

I also made a threaded test piece for my dad to confirm a thread on his project car is the (unusual) thread we thought it was:




Nexus Icon

620 posts

64 months

Wednesday 31st July 2019
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I don't know how people think of things to make, that make them worth cluttering up the house with. I work every day with multi-million pounds' worth of additive manufacturing/3D printing equipment, have done for over 15 years, and I can count the number of homers I've made on one hand.

thebraketester

14,397 posts

141 months

Wednesday 31st July 2019
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paulwoof said:


I printed a steering wheel on my ender 3, always meaning to wrap the grips in suede etc but its harder than it looks ha.

currently building a new 3d printed wheel based on the mclaren gt3 wheel. Reckon I could take the grips to an upholsterer or material person and ask them if they could do it?
Could you not get it flocked?

Art0ir

9,402 posts

173 months

Wednesday 31st July 2019
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Ellb123 said:
Ender 3 here...

I'll go off topic and post something actually useful laugh

Oil filter removal tool for Honda filters


And in use on my DC5
That looks smart! Wonder what RR bits I can 3D print.

Robdabank

77 posts

138 months

Wednesday 31st July 2019
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I'm sitting on the fence of getting one... pc has just blown-up, so could be one for the frivolous thread if I stopped procrastinating...

A friend at work has had one for a while (cheap Alibaba one - around £95) and has made a vast array of bits... from the basic boat (Benchy?) through to the articulated slug and robots... also a full-size Holy Handgrenade of Antioch anyone?

As someone mentioned before, lots of items that take up space...

In saying that, he has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of weaponry through the ages and has printed some pretty accurate full size weapons... then painted them - and it has really piqued my interest.

How about a musket? (tiny part missing - frizzen? - but it had not been attached!)



Or an STG-44? (Mag removable/moving trigger and cocking lever)


TXG399

134 posts

136 months

Friday 2nd August 2019
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I've got 2 and I love them. I've made plenty of useless stuff/toys from Thingiverse but I also made a few things that are in daily use around the home with a few more at the planning stage.

I've been using SketchUp, which has really restricted me as it's simply not intended for this sort of use. I'll be switching shortly as I've had a few models built in SketchUp that just won't slice correctly for print, which is really frustrating.

It's probably the most frustrating hobby I have, but the satisfaction when it all works is incredible!

jimmyjimjim

7,380 posts

241 months

Friday 2nd August 2019
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I printed these a while ago, just out of curiosity to see how they'd go. Made a mistake in printing one without supports, and at extremely high resolution - took about 3 days. Ooops.



Dave.

7,421 posts

256 months

Saturday 3rd August 2019
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Didn't realise these were so cheap now....

I haven't found a decent phone holder for my Mini in 4 years.... idea

n3il123

2,635 posts

216 months

Monday 5th August 2019
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So assuming that I can get sign off, what would be a decent starter printer to grow into? and what would the maximum size be? Not that I want to print an AK47 but I wouldn't want to be restricted to printing 1/2 size smurfs either!