3D Printing - A useful thread

[rwillett]

Have a look at this for a pretty exciting 8 mins or so.

 

 

[SpondonBassed]

Great timelapse, thanks.

 

What were you making?

[rwillett]

It's a set of test prints to check how PETG can be filled and sanded down for spraying.

 

PLA is horrible to sand as it clogs up paper or discs. So I am glueing two bits of PETG to deliberately create a join line, filling the join line, sanding down using a mesh sandpaper OR wet and dry, using a primer that is "supposed" to act as a filler (ha ha ha ha) and then spray painting a decent colour on top, so using gray as a neutral colour, and then putting a polyurethane coat (or two) on top of that.

 

I want to see how good I can make it. So am printing off a few test sets to use.

Rob

 

 

[rwillett]

Just in case anybody is still following this thread, Amazon are knocking out esun Fire Engine Red PLA+ at around £5 a kg if you buy a pack of four. 

 

Just brought sixteen rolls at that price. I suspect it's a glitch as every other roll is 2.5x higher. 

 

https://amzn.eu/d/4FvltQb

 

Rob

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 20:44 by rwillett

[Dad3353]

48 minutes ago, rwillett said:

Just in case anybody is still following this thread ...

 

A splendid offer, but there's an extra 33€ for delivery to France, and it's not available on Amazon.fr, so I shan't be taking it up. Thanks for the 'heads up', though. 

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, rwillett said:

Just in case anybody is still following this thread, Amazon are knocking out esun Fire Engine Red PLA+ at around £5 a kg if you buy a pack of four. 

 

Just brought sixteen rolls at that price. I suspect it's a glitch as every other roll is 2.5x higher. 

 

https://amzn.eu/d/4FvltQb

 

Rob

 

 

 

Done for one batch of four. Thanks.

[tauzero]

2 hours ago, rwillett said:

Just in case anybody is still following this thread, Amazon are knocking out esun Fire Engine Red PLA+ at around £5 a kg if you buy a pack of four. 

 

Just brought sixteen rolls at that price. I suspect it's a glitch as every other roll is 2.5x higher. 

 

https://amzn.eu/d/4FvltQb

 

Appears to be if you join Prime, otherwise it's 3.5 times that.

[rwillett]

Ah! That might explain it. It's a very good deal if you do a lot of printing, however joining Amazon Prime isn't cheap. £5 a roll is excellent value. 

 

Sorry about that. 

[rwillett]

If anybody is coming to the Bass Bash this weekend and wants some rolls and doesn't have Prime, I can order some and bring them down with me. It's only available in Red but at £5 a roll, it's cheap as chips. I might order more today anyway. 

 

Rob

[rwillett]

I may have over-ordered on the filament....Thats eight boxes which is 32 rolls and there's another 16 rolls elsewhere.  I may have ordered twice by mistake.

 

That should see me for the next 6-8 months, so it's actually good I ordered it when it was cheap. I'll keep telling that to myself.

 

[Jackroadkill]

3 hours ago, rwillett said:

I may have over-ordered on the filament....Thats eight boxes which is 32 rolls and there's another 16 rolls elsewhere.  I may have ordered twice by mistake.

 

That should see me for the next 6-8 months, so it's actually good I ordered it when it was cheap. I'll keep telling that to myself.

 

 

Ha, thanks - you've just reminded me i need to order a reel of PLA and another of TPU....

[rwillett]

3 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

Ha, thanks - you've just reminded me i need to order a reel of PLA and another of TPU....

 

I may have a spare roll of PLA+ but all the above is fire engine red.