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3D Printers

From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)29 Jul 2014 09:41
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I might need to see some evidence proving that one!
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From: Ken (SHIELDSIT)29 Jul 2014 10:13
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I should have known!
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From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)29 Jul 2014 20:45
To: Ken (SHIELDSIT) 11 of 109
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what? that he reads the Daily Mail? Yeah, I know it's disgusting, innit?
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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)15 Aug 2014 14:37
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 12 of 109
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The Daily Mail is mercifully unknown outside of your benighted island.
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From: milko15 Aug 2014 14:46
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apparently its just as evil website isn't though. Popular all over the damn place, wherever idiots congregate.
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From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)15 Aug 2014 16:51
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 :-((

We have a similar -ish red top tabloid, The Toronto Sun.
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From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)15 Aug 2014 21:29
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Strictly speaking it's /their/ benighted island. I don't live there anymore. OK, I have the passport, and I do visit on occasion, but I don't miss dogshit-strewn pavements that much that I'd visit more than once a year.
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From: koswix16 Aug 2014 00:30
To: ANT_THOMAS 16 of 109
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I have some pictures but they're too big to upload. Will resize and post tomorrow.
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From: ANT_THOMAS16 Aug 2014 07:55
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Good stuff.

I was looking at the Prusa i3 models the other day. Think that might be my Christmas present. Or I'll end up buying it earlier if I get impatient.
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From: koswix16 Aug 2014 15:16
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Still fiddling with settings and whatnot to get decent prints,
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hotg3f9z5q7okl3/2014-08-15%2014.31.38.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bvykhmu0eh5e9zx/2014-08-15%2014.32.06.jpg
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From: ANT_THOMAS18 Aug 2014 15:39
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Is it difficult to get things setup and aligned?
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From: koswix18 Aug 2014 19:29
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Just really trial and error for a lot of stuff. And sometimes it randomly gives up mid print, which doesn't help.
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From: ANT_THOMAS 9 Oct 2014 15:03
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Did you have to pay any customs duty on yours?
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From: koswix 9 Oct 2014 19:58
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Nope, or the laser cutter. Luck of the draw I think though.
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From: ANT_THOMAS29 Jul 2015 22:11
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How's the 3D printer?

Just noticed it's 1year+1day since I posted. I'm seriously considering one again.
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From: koswix29 Jul 2015 22:55
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Temperamental. But it seems all hobby-grade 3d printers are. Friend just used it to print a hinge he designed, then smoother the surface with car body filler and took a cast in silicone. He can now produce lots of hinges for a project in resin. That's pretty cool.
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From: ANT_THOMAS29 Jul 2015 23:03
To: koswix 25 of 109
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It seems designs have improved slightly, or they're making them out to have. Loads of "2015" Prusa i3s on aliexpress under £200, many look better than what I was looking at last year. If only in appearance they look like a nicer more refined piece of kit, all come with LCDs, cooled nozzles etc.

There's so many things at the moment I'm thinking "I could print that" or "I need a custom made box/case therefore I need a 3D printer"
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From: koswix29 Jul 2015 23:07
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I've gone off the idea of an extruder printer. Too many limitations. I'd really like a selective laser scintering setup made out of a cheap Chinese laser cutter, or a UV curing system using a projector or similar. 
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From: Chris Cooper (DEATHTERRAPIN)30 Jul 2015 07:22
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I've got a pretty bog-standard prusa i3, had it since February, and I still wouldn't say I've got it printing as well as it could.
Temperamental is right. And slow. This tie interceptor model took about 5 hours for example.

If you get an i3, look for one where the main vertical frame has some sort of support. On the standard design its free to flex quite a bit, which I'm sure is contributing to poorer print quality on mine. I'm going to build a big wooden frame for it at some point.

 
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