I agree printing things to sell to the public off of an FDM or FFM printer probably wouldn't be a good idea. Things off of these machines are for prototypes in if you have to make them look nice...
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I agree printing things to sell to the public off of an FDM or FFM printer probably wouldn't be a good idea. Things off of these machines are for prototypes in if you have to make them look nice...
I think no matter what you buy for an FDM or FFM you're going to have a lot of postprocessing time sanding acetone vapor clear lacquer spraying and then painting and spraying clear again. Even if you...
With small parts just print more than one unit even if you don't need them possibly even three of them this gives time for each layer to cool on each part rather than then wasting plastic on a column...
What I do with ABS just a little bit of scraping Sanding about 5 to 10 minutes just that there is any high spots. And then about eight coats high solvent lacquer the solvent melts the surface a...
if you click on this is should be a link to kind of a crappy videohttp://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w631/richard_nelson1/new%203d%20printer%20i%20desiged%20and%20built/th_DSCN0098_zps1dfbe601.jpg
I had most of the stuff laying around the aluminum extrusions aluminum plate linear rails and bearings three of the four motors basically I had bought that stuff a long time ago and was very cheap so...
It can print at much higher speeds and with no machine deflections problem being I'm a little bit of a stickler for quality and it's the actual filament being laid down on top of the layer before it...
It runs very well it is very rigid and very reliable the extruder is something I came up with which works flawlessly it uses a serrated drive wheel off mig welder it is over 1 inch in diameter so...
Here are a few...