Dadio's 3D Printing Stuff

[Dadio]

Just had the first test drive with the new yz-834b gearbox and it runs sweet as a nut gear mesh sounds perfect , I'm a very happy boy , I think I need to start some sort of advertising but not a clue what to do ?

[BattleTrak]

I just added to your empire and ordered some Coyote arms. Now hopefully I can finish building my 2 cars that have been stalled for years.

[Dadio]

Thanks , I'm gonna be a miwyonair Rodders

[Dadio]

Just spent half the day getting a migrain converting my Samurai chassis into something that prints on a home FDM printer , got the left side done , it's broken down to 3 pieces and still needs a tun of support but at least it will print clean , I got started on the right side but my brain was thumping

[silvertriple]

Just spent half the day getting a migrain converting my Samurai chassis into something that prints on a home FDM printer , got the left side done , it's broken down to 3 pieces and still needs a tun of support but at least it will print clean , I got started on the right side but my brain was thumping

I can imagine what you mean, specially having a Samurai chassis in hands... Definitely not easy (and the featured suspension front springs are not making this easy - this is probably the most difficult thing to accommodate with FDM printing, I guess)...

[Dadio]

You tell people it's not easy but unless you actually know what your talking about and you have an original in your hands then you just can't see it , the whole thing is just wrong for FDM .

[silvertriple]

You tell people it's not easy but unless you actually know what your talking about and you have an original in your hands then you just can't see it , the whole thing is just wrong for FDM .

Actually, you are right: you need to have a chassis in hand to understand what it is about... I stopped considering FDM as a solution the day I started to try complex parts with multiple support... However, FDM is still perfect to validate something, before relying on online printing services...

[Dadio]

This is where I am with the FDM Samurai chassis , in Cura with 1.2 mm thick walls at 0.2mm layer height that looks horrible because of the gentle angles its about 10 hours print time for the main part of half the chassis , at 0.1 mm layer height with 1.2mm wall thickness its about 20 hours .

Hopefully that makes some sense of it , still needs preferably tree support of support everywhere .

[silvertriple]

Even with tree support, one must fully master the printing process... Not yet there, on my side, and I believe the bowden extruder does not help at all. That being said, looking at your pics, if he chassis is printed in multiple parts to be glued or fixed using screws later on, would that reduce the complexity of the print? (maybe quite difficult to hide the hardware used to fix the part together, but maybe possible (recently saw this https://www.printednest.com/caramel-crc and found some interesting ideas)...

[Dadio]

I've already made screw fixing points in the model and none are externally visible , the model you linked is beyond me as of yet and for some time to come but looks very nice .

[Dadio]

Not RC but just some fun , this will be a life size print of a scan of my daughters head , 24.5 hours in and only 68% done ! I hate prints that take this long as if something goes wrong at a late stage its a waist of time and plastic , most RC parts are only a matter of a few hours to print so if one goes wrong its no big deal to start over but this is going to be roughly 40 hours and even then ive still got to do another part for the top of her head , she wanted it to be a jar with a removable lid and give it to her boyfriend as a gift .Hard to see what it is yet with the support material in the way .

[Dadio]

My daughter and her replacement .

[Frankentruck]

Run girl run! He"s trying to make an android clone of you! Save yourself!

[Dadio]

Forgot to post the finished head .

[Dadio]