Mac, That totally would have been my method if I didn¡¯t have free access to the 3d printer.?
Regards, Mark
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On Feb 23, 2020, at 3:36 PM, Airtight: Clamps by Air Compression <airtightclamps@...> wrote:
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Not sexy but 3 to 5¡± off the shelf is anther option, sucks lumber up the shoot so suction is not a problem.
Designing and building for 47 years
On Feb 23, 2020, at 9:51 AM, imranindiana via Groups.Io <imranindiana@...> wrote:
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Brian,
Are any of the materials you mentioned are poly carbonate?Google search said it has very good strength. If not, would an inexpensive printer handle PC?
Imran
On Feb 23, 2020, at 8:43 PM, Brian Lamb <blamb11@...> wrote:
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The printer Mark Kessler is using is out of reach for any home hobby type situation. You can get a decent 3D printer for $500 or so, but it¡¯s going to take $3000-$5000 to get one capable of printing with carbon fiber enhanced materials (or a lot of modifications to a cheaper model). With most home type machines you can print PLA, ABS, PETG and a few other alphabet soup combo¡¯s. PLA is the most common and easiest to print with, but it does have strength and durability issues. I printed a LED light mount for my CNC mill using it and it has held up ok, even under the spray of oil and water based coolants.?
I also printed up some replacement speaker grills on my van when I did the handicapped conversion¡ the side doors required all new panels to accommodate the automatic door openers. That had to be printed out of ABS due to the summertime heat (would have melted and warped the PLA). Using ABS requires that you enclose the printer and keep the heat enclosed or the print goes to hell.
I have not used the DLP (Digital Light Processing) models. The smoothness of the prints is much better than FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) and I think they have units coming out that will print with fairly strong materials¡ at what cost, I don¡¯t know.
Brian Lamb
blamb11@...www.lambtoolworks.com
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I know this might be an off question and not trying to turn the thread but i love the idea of printing parts like this at home but have not gotten a 3D printer or CNC yet (I am looking at the Camaster CNC right now).? My wife was talking about being able to print small knobs and such - so considering one just got much easier :)
Are the materials made with these relatively strong and is there a large difference in the printers that build the part up layer by layer vs those that build with light in the epoxy?
On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 10:55 PM Cliff Rohrabacher, Esq. <
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AT LAST? a decent use for those printers~!!
?Good show~!!
On 2/21/20 9:30 PM, Mark Kessler wrote:
I 3d
printed a fitting for the overhead guard with a 4¡± port, I will
add the .stl to the files section Monday as I forgot to bring it
home with me today. It¡¯s not perfect as my modeling skills are
suffering and I was trying to do it under the radar at work and
just ran out of time, had issues with blending...
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