3d Printer

J_T

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Love mine :)

What are you trying to figure out? Settings?

I found some good settings from just playing around... I know it takes time for the print to finish, but the filament is cheap enough to waste. If you are using PLA, you can just toss it in the sump... Pretty much just bio pellets anyways :)
 

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How are the 3D printers? Are they reasonably stable or are they a real tinkering kind of hobby?
 

shiftline

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I do. Ask away :)

Most of my reefing related prints have been brackets and mounts

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Petercar (RIP Dec 2017)

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What kind machine is that ? We send ours back we got the single at first then bought the dual kit but wouldn't work so send it back got credit have not got one again yet
 

shiftline

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I have s dual extruder but only really use one. So a single is fine for most things

This is a tevo tarantula which is more of a diy kit version




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They have came down in price and appear to have more support.

But they are still very much a novelty? I mean print times can be days, smoothness of some final products look shabby.

How user friendly is the available software?

What are the common problems?
 

shiftline

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They are useful tools. They can be finicky to get setup and dialled in but once you do it's useful for making custom parts

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And yea the smoother you want to look the longer it takes to print
 

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Nice. Have you seen the lithographs that are produced using 3D printing they're amazing. I would like to get a printer just worried about the frustration level.
 

shiftline

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Good choice on the tarantula. There a great Facebook group for them as well


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