Got myself a new toy, a 3D printer.

[TransAmDan]

I have been toying with the idea for some time. Someone I work with in the US office has one so asked advice. I went for the Bambu P1S, its an enclosed one. Many are just a frame with no sides.

One of the test prints is a little boat. Completed in under 20mins.

The finish is really great.

By the next day I have printed more stuff. The White boxes are for silica gel, so I can keep the filiment dry. The cone shape is clever how it works as you can trist the orange part out from the middle.

Then printed a 'pop' shute, When the material gdeets purges between prints and changing colours it gets ejected out the back. This catches it and slides around the front.

Then I went on to making something I needed. This little circuit board I use for programming board with the Efinix FPGA on it. I did danage a board by it shorting out on another board while I was trying to do some debuging. Well wouldn't it be nice if it was in a box. So I 3D drew up a box and printed it out.

One thing I do want to make is some replacement peices for the t-tops on the car. This one is cracked, the other side is missing.

Now do I draw from scratch or to find a 3D scanner? which may need a lot of manual manipulation anyway... fun fun fun....

 

[saleen 192]

Amazon.co.uk : 3D Scanners

 

[TransAmDan]

Need to keep the filiment(plastic wire stuff) very dry. The garag eis 50% humidity which is ideal for storage. However the filiment need to be 20% or below. The top box is pretty air tight so silica beads are the way to bring it down in humidity. I have some in there now.
Some silica beads can be baked to dry them out ready to use again. I was looking for more silica beads, and having the colour changing ones would be ideal to see how dry they are.

Came accross these on eBay, Reusable, just pop them in a safe to dry them out?!?!? lol, something missing in language translation there.

 

[TransAmDan]

Amazon.co.uk : 3D Scanners

They are costly arn't they. Probably worth while if I had loads of stuff to scan. Could scan the car and make a model.

I done a quick 3D scan with a free app on the phone. It gets me in the right ball park. I think I'll redraw it for some clean edges and use the scanned model as a guide.

 

[renchero]

car SOS Cortina mk 3 restoration they 3D printed part . started by spraying a borrowed part. made scanning it a lot better. i cant remember what they used but it can be removed easily without damaging the original