Pie Panel #4
From my earlier post, you saw the issues I had with printing pie panel #4 with the Prusa brand ABS. I tried again with the Hobbyking ABS and it printed well. Below, the three right panels are the Prusa brand and the Hobbyking is on the left. It may just be an issue tweaking the … Continue reading "Pie Panel #4"
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My Hobbyking order of 2 Kg’s of white ABS finally arrived. There are 16 panels that need to be printed on this design. I spent most of the week printing them. There are a few panels with holes that create large bridges for the printer to span. As you can see below, I printed the … Continue reading "Printing panels"
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Not sure if I mentioned, the ABS filament I got with my Prusa printer doesn’t handle printing bridges very well. I’m out of the Hobbyking stuff and I want to use this up. I’ve been printing the pie panels for the top of Artoo’s dome. It was going well until I got to #4, which … Continue reading "Pie panels"
Read MoreGrand Rapids Comic Con
In browsing the web, I had found that there was a comic con in Grand Rapids this past weekend. As I investigated the schedule, I found that the R2D2 Builders Club was doing a presentation. Of course I had to make the drive to see what they had! While there, I even saw a 3D … Continue reading "Grand Rapids Comic Con"
Read MoreFirst prints
Thanks to Michael Baddeley and his .STL files of Artoo, I’ve started printing the dome. I will continue onto the rest of the droid after I’ve completed the dome. The main portion is made up of 8 parts. The larger parts took about 10-12 hours to print. I used Hobbyking ABS which cost me $12.90 … Continue reading "First prints"
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