I finally got the printer running to the level where I felt confident running another copy of this part off. Let me tell you, it's a cool item! The patterning from printing make the seam between the two halves near invisible when printed in clear PLA. This particular version is done at 150% size of …
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I started to hand forge a set a while back, and then machine the bases on my UNImat but this is so much easier. Wiggle my fingers a little bit, and out comes http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:770 It doesn't get any easier! These are printed in natural PLA at .2mm layer height with .2 infil. 3 solid layers …
He looked online, and the cheapest he could find them where about $4.75 a set, shipped. So we looked at the ever-useful ThingiVerse and found http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:13472 which are the brackets he needed. So I printed him up a few sets. This is my first 'print for hire'. He's pretty excited that the printer can be …
Mostly because I had forgotten I had set the scaling to 50% when I printed the first one. It turned out awesome, if small. The second one didn't turn out near as nice – it's like it didn't slice correctly or something. Not sure. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15016 In album The finished full size print. The ‘bolt’ seems …
It seems like when I try to print something, I print out lots of iterations with minor changes between the two. I got tired of cubes < http://mike.creuzer.com/2012/03/working-on-fine-tuning-the-printer.html > so I switched to something that may actually be useful. Carabiners. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18390 The 1.75mm Natural colored PLA printed awesomely for me, but I had gotten that …
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