3d Printer?

[Smit80]

Can you drill PLA or ABS?

[MrBen]

sure

[Cobs]

Ill order a little black Cobra so i can glue it to my Phantom ta

OOh could make nice mesh text maybe for the side of the legs ... FPV Carlisle

Oh and maybe some arm extensions for my Phantom

[Martink1974]

iv think theres along way to go with software yet many diff firmwares also with diff ideas, but proper cooling if defo a major factor with some materials







Elite dangerous out 16th December ---Check it out if you want to take over the galaxy !!

yes its winter and prolly why ive been quite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6peGu2yG6o&feature=player_embedded

[xxpitt]

surprised the ears didn't need support

[bigMouse]

Yea that angle is right on the limit I think, after 45 deg from vertical it can go wrong in a minute.

Looks good  Ben! you have inspired me to print a 1/3 scale head (same as the one I had the failure on!)

I agree with martin, firmware is 99% of a successful 3d printer, that's the good thing about open source, you can experiment or tweak the code to suit your own needs.

[bigMouse]

what colour is that Ben, pink or white? From the pic it looks close to skin colour!

[MrBen]

It's white BM

[xxpitt]

what colour is that Ben, pink or white? From the pic it looks close to skin colour!

should of gone to spec savers

[bigMouse]

Decided to rerun that head but at 1/4 scale, 5 hours, turned out fine this time!

Head is 57mm high, could have gone larger but still in testing mode!

Couldn't release it from the table, had to soak the table in hotish water to melt the glue.

Infill 25% weight 30 gram

[MrBen]

looks bob on that, what layer res is it?

[bigMouse]

0.4 nozzle
Layer height 0.1mm
Shell thickness 0.8mm
bottom and top thickness 0.6mm
fill density 20%
speed 50 mm/s
PLA
First layer only: table 70c  extruder 220c
All remaing:       table 60c  extruder 210c

[loganj13]

you might try changing bottom and top layer height to something smaller... anywhere between .2 and .5 would be a little bit better, also, if you can adjust your first layer settings, I would definitely take the speed down to the slowest possible setting 20-30mm/s atleast for the first layer. And while the overhangs seem to have come out very well at 50mm/s if you can adjust the speed for those layers or just height in general I definitely would slow it down to be safe and make it more reliable. Also you did not list you print heads travel speed but the default for most printers is usually a lot faster than the print speed and I would make the travel speed much lower to get less material drag in general.

[Martink1974]

Decided to rerun that head but at 1/4 scale, 5 hours, turned out fine this time!

Head is 57mm high, could have gone larger but still in testing mode!

Couldn't release it from the table, had to soak the table in hotish water to melt the glue.

Infill 25% weight 30 gram

looks bloody good that bm

[bigMouse]

For the head I used:
Bottom layer speed 20 mm/s
Print speed 50 mm/s
Travel speed 150 mm/s


I'll try thinner top and bottom, actually the very top of the head was finished in a spiral type motion and it was raised slightly, guess a thinner setting would have worked well there?