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I love 3d printing so much. Need a proprietary parfocal spacer with an unusual m24x0.75 thread for a specialized objective on a Zeiss microscope from the 80s? No problem!   Need to replace a burnt out delaminated polarizer with one of the exact same dimensions? Buy a Zeiss replacement new for 400 bucks, used for [not even currently available], or buy a normal polarizer for 8 bucks and print a holder for it. 
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Back in the 90s my dad made a router table specifically to cut more brio tracks. They were a very popular gift.
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I have an ender 5 plus and it is easy and hassle free for the most part.
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Aug 10, 2021 18:05
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I love 3d printing so much. I wanted to be able to mount old Nikon nosepieces onto an old Wild m420 head (basically allowing you to turn a good macrp photography system into a hardcore macro/micro system.) A bit challenging since the nosepiece has this unusual dovetail with an angled base  But working from an existing Nikon holder and a little F360 and   It works! Took three prints (one I put a chamfer in the wrong place, one the dovetail was a little too small) but came out just right. I designed it to include a metal plate like the original does but haven't cut it out yet, and it seems like it won't be necessary. It won't carry all that much weight and it feels very stirdy in petg.
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Aug 13, 2021 01:45
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I got random layer shifting back and forth because my hot end was a little loose. It could only move in one axis and only when nudged so it was very inconsistent. Might be worth checking.
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Aug 13, 2021 19:57
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I use aquanet and I like it.
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Aug 16, 2021 04:19
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How cheap we talking?
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Aug 21, 2021 21:05
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I think this is my most complicated design yet. I had a broken accessory for an old microscope and turned it into a rotating polarizer. It has an outer shell that bolts onto the existing metal shell with a channel. The inner slider takes two bolts on the outside that keep it from sliding all the way out. The polarizer can rotate about 80 degrees, unfortunately not quite 90 but it wasn't possible geometrically.    It's a nice thing to have, and anyway I needed a spacer to make it fit together geometrically. This way it feels less like wasted space.
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Aug 22, 2021 05:32
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I like my ender 5 plus. We bought it fully assembled and it took an hour to set up, and the only serious headache it's given me so far was the bolts on the hot end loosening and needing some loctite.
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Sep 4, 2021 18:41
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How about petg? Or would that not be heat resistant enough?
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Sep 12, 2021 21:02
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When would you typically choose abs over petg? For my basic functional parts petg has always been good enough and quite low hassle (aside from the stringing, though that's partially my fault for not keeping it properly dry) but I have kind of wondered what I'm missing with abs. It's one thing to see bullet points on a site or whatever, but I'm curious about people's real-world decision making.
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Sep 12, 2021 21:54
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They're a bit like thorlabs but without the snacks (  )
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Sep 13, 2021 18:40
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My 5 plus has been great. A few issues along the way, a couple bolts on the hot end came loose, limit switch failed on one axis, but all pretty quick and inexpensive to fix.
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I love 3d printing so much. I just put this gem photography system together for someone and needed to add a glass plate, iris and gem holder to an old industrial microscope base. This would have been a huge pain by pretty much any other method. 
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Oct 9, 2021 20:10
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I got an ad for an affordable* metal printer on youtube just the other day. *apparently their idea of affordable is 100k if google is correct
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Oct 15, 2021 08:48
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Ah, the ol' archer's paradox.
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Nov 9, 2021 04:04
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Have a hollow outer shell of one color, hollow inner shell of another, and use normal epoxy/resin to stick them together and fill in between with color and/or swirls.
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Nov 9, 2021 17:52
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Wow!
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Nov 22, 2021 16:37
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Acid Reflux posted:The trend I've been seeing lately is people printing on rafts for no actual reason at all. No idea why that's making a comeback all of a sudden, but it annoys me in a way that I'm not sure I even have words for.
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Nov 27, 2021 16:46
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Hence newbies thinking it's just how you print things. There's gonna be a lot of that from black friday in a bit here.
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Nov 27, 2021 21:03
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Mine's been pretty good (5 plus preassembled though).
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Nov 28, 2021 03:14
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biracial bear for uncut posted:YouTube guy is in for a bad time if he does that too much. Lots of things can really wreck you without appropriate ppe. Woodworkers can develop wood allergies, silica dust can permanently ruin your lungs, etc etc. And those don't have some of resin's special properties. Scarodactyl fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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biracial bear for uncut posted:The day Creality releases a 3d printer that does not require mods out of the box to make for a decent end-user experience will be the day I stop laughing whenever someone says they sell good machines.
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Dec 27, 2021 19:58
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Sagebrush posted:if the clog is something like a grain of sand, you were never going to be able to burn that out anyway.
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Dec 28, 2021 18:41
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I doubt they need to generate buzz when they have already sold more than they can make until q3. And once people actually get units there will be plenty of buzz.
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I like f360 a lot, though they've recently added more limits to the free version and who knows what they'll do in the future.
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Jan 28, 2022 09:09
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I love 3d printing.  A tiny bit of filament, a 30 dollar lens and 30 dollars of metal spacers and I made one of these. https://spectraservices.com/product/10447436.html
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Commodore_64 posted:What microscope head is that? Is it a stereo microscope?
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Feb 13, 2022 04:27
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 I love 3d printing. Got this microscope body super cheap because someone had removed the knobs and replaced them with flat caps. Now I just need to whiten the body plastic a bit.
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I don't do resin printing, but do you think I'm right to tell my friend not to spend 10k on one of these for live prototyping of rings? https://www.b9c.com/products/b9-core-series It seems to me like he could probably export his models and print them on a normal resin printer but maybe there is something I am missing.
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Thanks! His gemcutting business has been taking off and he's hoping to get into jewelry making (but he'd having casting done by a third party rather than doing it himself, he just needs physical prototypes to prototype and/or impress customers with). I suspect even a cheap resin printer would work for that but I'm not sure. He's apparently been told that calibration and/or alignment are a timesink on other printers. That seemed questionable to me.
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May 16, 2022 23:28
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Scarodactyl posted:Thanks! His gemcutting business has been taking off and he's hoping to get into jewelry making (but he'd having casting done by a third party rather than doing it himself, he just needs physical prototypes to prototype and/or impress customers with). I suspect even a cheap resin printer would work for that but I'm not sure. He's apparently been told that calibration and/or alignment are a timesink on other printers. That seemed questionable to me. Everyone loves that!
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Actually my ender works great.
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Who you suckers think you printing with? Yes, I'm debossed
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Marsupial Ape posted:Are there DIY projects for 3d printed benchtop cnc and engraving machines that are actually worth the effort? That’s one of my more nebulous longterm goals with the printer.
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The parts print really well at least. But there are so many weird issues and oversights (like who wouldn't include printable drill templates? I had to model my own like an animal).
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Nerobro posted:"Find a job you love" is a lie on nearly every level.
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Javid posted:one of my favorite things to make with my printer is the exact handle I need for one specific bit I use a lot
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Dumb question but is your hot end in tightly? Mine got loose and started doing these back and forth shifts.
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Yeah, all those....empty light sockets, that everyone just has.
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