rwillett Posted December 8, 2024 Author Posted December 8, 2024 Have a look at this for a pretty exciting 8 mins or so. 2 1 Quote
SpondonBassed Posted December 8, 2024 Posted December 8, 2024 Great timelapse, thanks. What were you making? Quote
rwillett Posted December 8, 2024 Author Posted December 8, 2024 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 1 Quote
rwillett Posted October 7 Author Posted October 7 (edited) 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 October 7 by rwillett Quote
Dad3353 Posted October 7 Posted October 7 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. Quote
Stub Mandrel Posted October 7 Posted October 7 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. Quote
tauzero Posted October 7 Posted October 7 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. Quote
rwillett Posted October 8 Author Posted October 8 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. Quote
rwillett Posted October 8 Author Posted October 8 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 Quote
rwillett Posted October 10 Author Posted October 10 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. 1 4 Quote
Jackroadkill Posted October 10 Posted October 10 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.... Quote
rwillett Posted October 10 Author Posted October 10 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. 1 Quote
rwillett Posted 1 hour ago Author Posted 1 hour ago (edited) As with many people, I have a load of 'rolls of stuff' that are a pain to keep on. e.g. copper tape or foam adhesive tape. Both comes on a cardboard roll but that has no sides and it falls out (or at least it does for me). So I had a think about it and have come up with this parameterised solution in Fusion 360. The nice bit is this reel comes apart and has a simple screw thread to screw together afterwards. As it's parameterised, everything is adjustable. So the above is 120mm for the reel size, the internal hub size is 75mm (which fits my copper tape rolls) and is 11mm between the reel sides. The copper tape is 10mm so a little bit of a gap. The screw thread automatically adjusts as well, which is great. Here's a larger version that just has the parameters changed. I'll try and upload the Fusion 360 file Rob Edited 1 hour ago by rwillett 1 Quote
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