Qidi Tech 1 - Replicator 1 clone

[wirlybird]

Cool I know what I am printing now. LOL
Thanks again for all the advice.

I am printing that one now.

[wirlybird]

I am trying to decide between the two right now. I am going to print one of them in a little while I just have not decided which.
The first one looks interesting and like it not only works well but gives you a better view of your prints if you use a corner cam like I do.

The second though where both sit behind the nozzles seems like it would be great as well.

As for removing support material. Use leaky supports and you can use one of those small straw brushes to clean most of them out it looks like.

Found that removing supports is all but impossible. Not sure if I am going to bother a long reprint with limited supports.

[wirlybird]

Yeah, same as the one that you listed. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1716089
The last mod was the addition of the little flanges that fit into the blower's output opening. First version of his duct lacked those, so it was difficult to align and lock in place. It leaked a bit more too.

Printing now, any tips on getting supports out?

[cncartist]

Found that removing supports is all but impossible. Not sure if I am going to bother a long reprint with limited supports.

I have really good experience with removing supports in complex areas so far. I will be sharing a couple items I designed which included a pipe system and a water wheel which had interior support that took me 4 hours to clean up the two pieces. They came out great but I needed to use a lot of care in removing the support material. My support is completely solid lines of support which can be removed like an accordion when I get lucky.

Printing now, any tips on getting supports out?

I would recommend placing manual supports if the auto-generated looks overkill, you won't need too many on the inside and that looks like a really easy part to clean out with a solid pair of needle-nose pliers.

[jfkansas]

If using S3d then using a very low percentage support at 2 different angles, like 45 and -45, then a 50-60% 3 layer Dense support helps with removal. On inside structures like that use at least 1 upper and lower separation layer, maybe 2. The low percentage supports should break out easily, then you can peel the dense supports off.

[wirlybird]

Both cooler prints are worthless. The supports needed to print it half way decent so it doesn't collapse on its self are impossible to remove. What a waste of time.

[Syd_Khaos]

Both cooler prints are worthless. The supports needed to print it half way decent so it doesn't collapse on its self are impossible to remove. What a waste of time.

Sounds like you don't have the right tools bud.
Go to your local hobby shop, most sell little toolkits designed for things like building ships in bottles and other such tedious tasks. Typically its some specialty tweezers and some picks, both of varied shape and design.
They help ALOT for pulling support material is hard to get to spots.

[cncartist]

My printer was empty over the weekend!

Both cooler prints are worthless. The supports needed to print it half way decent so it doesn't collapse on its self are impossible to remove. What a waste of time.

Both of these?
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1597507
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1716089

I was thinking about printing one to try out, let me know which one I should tackle.

[jfkansas]

Sounds like you don't have the right tools bud.
Go to your local hobby shop, most sell little toolkits designed for things like building ships in bottles and other such tedious tasks. Typically its some specialty tweezers and some picks, both of varied shape and design.
They help ALOT for pulling support material is hard to get to spots.

Lol, at first I thought you were telling him to go find a new ship building hobby.

[wirlybird]

Sounds like you don't have the right tools bud.
Go to your local hobby shop, most sell little toolkits designed for things like building ships in bottles and other such tedious tasks. Typically its some specialty tweezers and some picks, both of varied shape and design.
They help ALOT for pulling support material is hard to get to spots.

I've got everything I need including plenty of modeling tools. There is just so much support that is inside that cannot be reached and the shell is really delicate. The auto supports are a waste of time.

I am trying custom supports and while doing that found other issues with the model that need to be fixed so it will print right. Just the bottom of one takes 3 layers before it actually prints the whole flat bottom.