The 3D Printing Thread



Probably the best 3D printing April fools.

Chinese manufacturers have never got this concept.
 
Man hardware is about to get expensive if this leaked pricing for a dryer is right, lol.

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And I thought the $179 2-spool Sunlu engineering model was insanely priced!

Creality should also be revealing a K2C as well. Should be a K2 Plus shrunk down to around Bambu proportions. The K2 Plus is fucking massive so that's a good move.
 
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This is so bad for this company. After everything in January where half the hobbyist community screamed at them (and it sorta wore off? People were starting to just accept it) they stopped a 21-hour H2D print to ask a dude to upgrade his firmware to keep using his AMS.

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Took a break from printing and then had a couple of requests that then required new filament to show up.

Bambu has changed up the refill packaging a bit.

And I just opened to Version 2.0.1.50 of Bambu Studio and there are quite a few UI changes.
 
rcubed said:
Took a break from printing and then had a couple of requests that then required new filament to show up.

Bambu has changed up the refill packaging a bit.

And I just opened to Version 2.0.1.50 of Bambu Studio and there are quite a few UI changes.
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Look at what the prices did on H2D and X1C over night.

Yikes.
 
Lutter said:
So glad I picked up a ton of consumables for my A1 a week or two ago in that sale they were having on parts. A lot of those like doubled.

My poop flinger was broken. Whew. haha.
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I should be good for awhile. I'll probably start slowly switching over to Polymaker at some point. I just wish they would adopt RFID sooner than later.
 
rcubed said:
I should be good for awhile. I'll probably start slowly switching over to Polymaker at some point. I just wish they would adopt RFID sooner than later.
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I mostly use their stuff for PLA. It print real nice. Even the "farm" rolls that are sometimes cheap.

I want to go visit their facility down there as I have no idea even how big of an operation it is nor if they're sourcing raw materially locally (I mean, they're in Houston, I gotta believe they can source any kind of fun raw material in that pit of petrochemicals so I would think so). I think all the USA-based filament from them is going into the wholesale arena right now because I've yet to get a roll actually made in Houston (despite being like 275 km away).
 
Sooo I had an ordering issue with Amazon before where I ordered a box of Elegoo PETG-HF in for a project. Got the box and half the rolls were used.

Complained to Amazon, they let me return it, and I reordered. I stopped the project I was working on and forgot about it. At some point Elegoo must’ve gotten it back and saw it was used and sent more….

I have EIGHT KILOGRAMS of PETG-HF white.

Uh. Baby Yoda for the Backyard?

Also this is alarming (H2D):

 
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Absolute. Insanity. This was on sale for $179 in December. (it shows the AMS but this is the direct drive version without). H2D up to $2399 without AMS.
 
I mentioned that we do a bunch of metal AM at work, but we also have a few plastic printers. My tech showed me something cool he made this week. We use silicone as a protective mask for some parts we make. Usually use a combination of metal parts and silicone sheets and simple cast silicone chunks. Anyway, my tech made a full-on injection molding set up. Printed a two-part mold with vent holes, alignment pins, everything. Then used a big syringe to squirt in freshly mixed silicone. Once cured, the resulting mask fit perfectly and looked professional AF. Much less fidly than the masks we usually make.

He said that there are some 3d printers that directly print silicone; going to look into that.
 
Hey rcubed you been paying attention to these Bondtech INDX toolchangers that are coming soon? It's completely macro-based so technically it should work with any printer (well, uh, not Bambu printers but duh they locked everything down)..

They made a 4-toolhead version for Rapid TCT and put it into a Voron 0 and it's gotta be the most adorably small 4 toolhead printer ever. I wanna say thats a 150x150x150 printer. Imagine the possibilities having, say, 10 of these on a 400x400x400 printer. They're $35 each supposedly per tool (plus whatever base cost I'm sure).

12 seconds per tool change right now.

 
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I don't know where this dude came from but in terms of 3D printer reviews this might be the best there is production-wise.

You'll know what I mean. His thumbnail looks stupid though.
 
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Bruh their z-banding is horrible.

It doesn't say here but I'm pretty sure this is ICON out of here in Austin (whose real aim is building on other planets one day with this tech autonomously)

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Espeer said:
I mentioned that we do a bunch of metal AM at work, but we also have a few plastic printers. My tech showed me something cool he made this week. We use silicone as a protective mask for some parts we make. Usually use a combination of metal parts and silicone sheets and simple cast silicone chunks. Anyway, my tech made a full-on injection molding set up. Printed a two-part mold with vent holes, alignment pins, everything. Then used a big syringe to squirt in freshly mixed silicone. Once cured, the resulting mask fit perfectly and looked professional AF. Much less fidly than the masks we usually make.

He said that there are some 3d printers that directly print silicone; going to look into that.
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I’m watching news from Rapid TCT in Detroit that happened this weekend and I think this is what you’re talking about:



Not my interest but that looks cool AF.
 
In case anyone wants to see what is perhaps the largest filament manufacturer in the country now down in Houston (and the supplier I use the most)....

 
Lutter said:
Hey rcubed you been paying attention to these Bondtech INDX toolchangers that are coming soon? It's completely macro-based so technically it should work with any printer (well, uh, not Bambu printers but duh they locked everything down)..

They made a 4-toolhead version for Rapid TCT and put it into a Voron 0 and it's gotta be the most adorably small 4 toolhead printer ever. I wanna say thats a 150x150x150 printer. Imagine the possibilities having, say, 10 of these on a 400x400x400 printer. They're $35 each supposedly per tool (plus whatever base cost I'm sure).

12 seconds per tool change right now.

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I haven't been paying attention to anything 3D printing or related recently.

Just learned about Send Cut Send for some more robust projects. sendcutsend.com
 
My assistant is back from 6 months maternity leave on Monday so I decided to master woodshop at age 41.

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Lots of sanding and lots of heat gun. Polymaker Wood Gradient.
 
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