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What kind of printer do you use?

Discussion in '3D Printing' started by bruce stephen, Feb 12, 2016.

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  1. Pierre Lalancette

    Pierre Lalancette Sir Lalancelot Gold Contributor

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    Now, when I receive gifts from Santa, they are for my 3d printer.
    I had problem with the SD Card. They didn't worked. Looking the internet, the size or the quality of the card could be to blame. The smallest card I could find was 16 gigs. It didn't work. It says that you could format it to 2 gigs size, but it did not work. I contacted the Hictop saying that find a 2 gig sd card these days is not an easy task. They told me they would pay 50% of any card I found. I found one cheap over the internet with a decent delivery cost.

    IMG_1668.JPG IMG_1669.JPG

    It worked. The hot end is for future transformation with the dehydrator.
    Pierre Lalancette, Aug 15, 2017
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  2. SeatTime

    SeatTime Well-Known Member

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    Decided to assign some time to build the 3D printer - all done :)- in the process of completing its first test print. Still need to setup the dryer... although the PLA was straight out of the sealed bag and looks to be printing OK.

    3D print first.jpg
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    SeatTime, Aug 16, 2017
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  3. noorbeast

    noorbeast VR Tassie Devil Staff Member Moderator Race Director

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    Nice one :thumbs

    You are way ahead of me @SeatTime, I have had my A8 for weeks, plus all the parts I ordered to mod it, and they are all still sitting in their boxes and packages...life is just crazy chaotic at the moment :(
    noorbeast, Aug 16, 2017
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  4. Pierre Lalancette

    Pierre Lalancette Sir Lalancelot Gold Contributor

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    Look really nice @SeatTime . Glad that you can already be doing some printing. I am sure you will be mastering it in no time.

    @noorbeast, the hardest thing I found in life is to give up some dreams to make sure that I don't realize other dreams only half the way. This is why I gave up the dream of becoming a rock star.
    Pierre Lalancette, Aug 16, 2017
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  5. noorbeast

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    That is why the A8 is still sitting in its box, I bought it on sale but my VR interests and projects take precedence as they are my real passion.
    noorbeast, Aug 16, 2017
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  6. SeatTime

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    From my experience in living in this 'modern' world if you make a log of what you do in a normal day you would be surprised just how much time you waste on things like TV/internet/email/phone etc ;)- on saying that I do have some jobs lined up for this 3D printer :).
    SeatTime, Aug 17, 2017
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  7. Nick Moxley

    Nick Moxley Well-Known Member

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    My latest Customer request, Next up the Wheel these go to, Lol
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    Nick Moxley, Aug 17, 2017
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  8. donovan

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    i have a xyz da vinci 1.0jr converted to RAMPS 1.4, now is like a prusa xD.. need some tune so far..
    donovan, Nov 10, 2017
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  9. RickPlays

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    I use a Anet A8 which I upgraded with some extensions like this power module for the heated bed:
    RickPlays, Dec 10, 2017
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    My Motion Simulator:
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    very nice print quality
    donovan, Dec 27, 2017
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  11. reddo

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    I have self designed and built I3 spinoff running a RAMPS (12V) with 200x300 heatbed (24V) and 300 mm height + recently a self built and slightly modified Ultimaker2 clone from aluminium extrusion profiles with a Geeetech GT2560 board on 24V. Both E3D hotends (V5 for the I3 and V6 for the UMclone). I3 recently rebuilt to bowden extruder (like the UMclone) but might change that back to suffer some speed to get rid of blobs.
    reddo, Jan 7, 2018
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  12. RandomCoder

    RandomCoder Active Member Gold Contributor

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    Very interesting, do you have any photos to share? I'm still waiting the delivery of the Anet A8 which I ordered way back in November. Beginning to think it will never arrive!
    RandomCoder, Jan 7, 2018
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  13. reddo

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    The I3 before the bowden conversion (and the then unfinished UM clone besides it)

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    The UM clone

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    reddo, Jan 7, 2018
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  14. Nick Moxley

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    Nick Moxley, Jan 13, 2018
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  15. Ian Pace

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    Currently using Anet A8 with S3d - very pleased after some tweaking :)
    Ian Pace, Jan 17, 2018
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    Im using a Tevo Tornado... and love it...
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  17. paulg100

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    Resin printing those grips would really finish that wheel off Nick, they would look injection moulded rather than fdm printed,

    Got side tracked from motion simming for the past several months (hoping to get back to it soon) as i been busy learning resin 3d printing there surprisingly easy to DIY build

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    really need to get back to the sim stuff soon, i have an open sim wheel i bought last April and ive used it about 30 minutes. criminal!
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    paulg100, Feb 1, 2018
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    Nice, was looking at that for the next printer... LCD screen ? And daylight LED's ? My idea was to make a conversion for the Ultimaker clone I have using just an LCD as-is... so modding the screen and placing LED's. Any build topic of your printer somewhere ?
    reddo, Feb 1, 2018
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  19. Nick Moxley

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    Do they have Flexible Resins ? I would assume so, is that legit a DIY unit you've built there ? Details please DETAILS!!!!!!!! :p
    Nick Moxley, Feb 2, 2018
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  20. paulg100

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    Well this did start life as a wanhao D7, but its only the motherboard and lcd left now. If i built another one its very easy to build from scratch now. For a printer that will kick the ass of a $10,000 printer costs about $500 to build. Can do for less if you happy to sacrifice accuracy.

    Off for work now but ill post more details tonight if any ones interest.

    And yes there are flexible resins. Havnt used them but there are several available now i think.
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