I just ordered a Raise3d N2 with a 12x12x24 print area and has a hot extuder to print the fancy materials. Be a week or so before I get it. Have some cool stuff to make with it so I hope it works as well I think it will.
Quote from: nielsenammo on March 02, 2018, 07:41:22 PMI just ordered a Raise3d N2 with a 12x12x24 print area and has a hot extuder to print the fancy materials. Be a week or so before I get it. Have some cool stuff to make with it so I hope it works as well I think it will.Cool Nick, maybe once you get it figured out and start making things you could make me several of these. I have been trying to find someone who is making them to sell and I keep striking out.Bill C!
I was planning to design these too, but I realized a potentially irritating flaw of these types of design.They drop a pellet into your palm, which you then have to somehow get it into your fingers to load it. I don't know how annoying it will be, but I think pellet pouches might be better.
Quote from: Donut 2994 on March 14, 2018, 12:12:09 AMI was planning to design these too, but I realized a potentially irritating flaw of these types of design.They drop a pellet into your palm, which you then have to somehow get it into your fingers to load it. I don't know how annoying it will be, but I think pellet pouches might be better.I have an original Lead Shed. Dropping the pellet into your palm is not a problem. Pretty easy and intuitive to reorient and load the pellet. I also have a smaller 3D printed dispenser incorporated into a scope wheel. JMJ
Ive been 3D printing for years and have owned 5 different printers and have printed in about all the plastics available, Its super fun and I do a lot of R&D for fitment etc. with it. I currently have two ROBO printers a R1 and a C2.
Quote from: JMJ in NC on March 14, 2018, 08:45:12 AMQuote from: Donut 2994 on March 14, 2018, 12:12:09 AMI was planning to design these too, but I realized a potentially irritating flaw of these types of design.They drop a pellet into your palm, which you then have to somehow get it into your fingers to load it. I don't know how annoying it will be, but I think pellet pouches might be better.I have an original Lead Shed. Dropping the pellet into your palm is not a problem. Pretty easy and intuitive to reorient and load the pellet. I also have a smaller 3D printed dispenser incorporated into a scope wheel. JMJThank you for sharing your experience. Gonna start working on a design now.
It is not just having a 3d printer. You have to take the time to design what it is you are making. The piece you want is a multi piece part and takes some thought and time to draw it. Then often times print it a few times to perfect something like that. 3d printers are very slow and it may take 3 or 4 hours to print the two parts each time. If you have the drawing ready to be printed it would a lot easier to get someone to print it. For me, my printer has been printing nearly non stop since I purchased it. I am making a complicated set of parts and each part takes around 12 hours to print.
Not codes. You draw in the computer what you want to print. It is a 3d drawing from software that is designed to take the 3d image and write code for the printer's software. Then the printer software creates the actual code for the printer called slicing.That's the drawing you need. I use either inventor or fusion360 to draw. Then save as a 3d print file. Then use a slicer to get the code into the printer. My print stopped this morning after 23 hours of printing. I put a new print file in which will take 15 hours. Then I have one more print that will probably take 12 hours. It is only a prototype so I will most like have to do at least one more time. 3d printing is not for production.
Quote from: nielsenammo on March 17, 2018, 05:04:18 PMNot codes. You draw in the computer what you want to print. It is a 3d drawing from software that is designed to take the 3d image and write code for the printer's software. Then the printer software creates the actual code for the printer called slicing.That's the drawing you need. I use either inventor or fusion360 to draw. Then save as a 3d print file. Then use a slicer to get the code into the printer. My print stopped this morning after 23 hours of printing. I put a new print file in which will take 15 hours. Then I have one more print that will probably take 12 hours. It is only a prototype so I will most like have to do at least one more time. 3d printing is not for production.Thanks Nick. No wonder I can't find anyone making those anymore LOL. Lots of work!
With 3d printing, the initial cost of about $300 is all you need. The printing spool is about $15 and will last you a lot of projects before it runs out. You can recoup initial cost after printing a few LDC or scope wheel.One limitation is the size of printing beds. To make big projects like a gun stock, you have to do it in pieces, then glue them together.For LDC, I've printed baffles, then used an alum tube for the outside. Lately, I've been doing square all 3d printed LDC.If you like designing, it's a good investment. It's a learning process. Just like tinkering with airguns.
here's a square LDC on a 1720T. Next time I print one, maybe i'll include something like a stripper in one of the cavities. I glue the top on.For prints with overhangs, the printing utility can build supports which you can peel off after printing. 3d printing is like air gun tuning. A lot of variables to play with. Sometimes a lot of frustration. But when you get it right, a lot of satisfaction as well.
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