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I suspect that the definition on these ones is nowhere near good enough for what we need.

 

I'll leave it to the experts and let them sell me what I need.

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How many of the shape ways chassis can you buy for $499 Peter? :)

 

I have dabbled with a low end 3D printer and think that in many regards they are comparable to dot matrix printers - myself I will wait for then to release the 3D printer equivalent of a colour laser printer (as compare to a dot matrix) for $499 before I consider buying one.

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Spoke to techy son about these.

These are lower end but ok to dabble with.

That said, there's a helluva lot more to it than buying it and plugging it in.

Software, flow rates, calibration, cooling rates, fan timing and many other multi-sylable words that made it sound better left to the experts.

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Spoke to techy son about these.

These are lower end but ok to dabble with.

That said, there's a helluva lot more to it than buying it and plugging it in.

Software, flow rates, calibration, cooling rates, fan timing and many other multi-sylable words that made it sound better left to the experts.

 

I agree. One of the guys that looks after our computers has built his own. The correct software is a big key to it all. And then there is getting the item you want printed into the correct file for the printer. 3D scanning is a whole other issue.

 

But there are some possibilities. Ryan (the computer guy ) has a machine that printers in layers of .1mm ie 10 layers to the mm. He is also looking at various materials that are far more durable than others.

Alan Stubbings

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http://me3d.com.au

 

This is the printer I use, designed and built by some local UOW students. Build layer can go down to 0.05mm, I use 0.1mm for all my V8 parts using Polyplus filament for hard parts and Polyflex for flexible wings. Mattercontrol software is pretty good, only thing it cant do that I need is the ability to complete a single nested part before moving onto the next part, so I use Slic3r which is not as nice to use but produces excellent parts with Polyplus. I still use Mattercontrol to operate the printer and import the g-code from Slic3r.

 

Polyflex wing sides.

 

wings.jpeg

 

Wing.jpg

 

Polyplus wheel insert

Wheel%252520Insert.jpg

 

Still, no custom parts can be produced unless you can 3D model and/or 3D scan.

 

This looks like an interesting scanner for the money, better than 0.1mm resolution.

 

https://eora3d.com/index.html

Hoo Roo

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That ME3D printer looks great...

I couldn't see it, but does it come with a heated bed?

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No heated bed supplied, but you can add one on. For the filaments I'm using it isn't needed.

 

Side by side comparison of my wheel inserts, the right one on a $70k resin machine at work @ 10 micron.

I'm pretty happy with mine given it is about 1/60th the price. You can buy much cheaper resin machines but you have to process the parts after they are manufactured and you can't print flexible materials. I really wanted a resin machine initially and did lots of research into them, but there are many more advantages with a filament machine if the print quality is acceptable for your needs.

 

3Dprinted%252520inserts.jpg

Hoo Roo

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