Watch out @med seems @nixiefreqq is after your Crown of Bodge
Time for me to sleep my last widget of the day is on the printer. Hooks a GameSir controller for one of my baby Drones (Tello) to my Galaxy Tabs protective outer. Tiny tweak needed on the controllers current mount. No fastners just a 30 degree twist to lock in place. V1 shown just needed a Tweak.
Did I mention the reduction in Bodge with a 3D Printer and a bit of practice Not mentioned is the glut of hours in regaining and learning some new Cad skills along the way. I think it is worth it just need to figure out how to make it pay in the long term
went back and read the knob and foot thread.
3d printing does indeed appear to be an elegant solution, and much better than my plumbers nightmare fix for the hp17xx fractured foot plague.
diving down the rabbit hole right now would probably yield results in about a year and a half. (and i'd be cursing you guys every minute along the way).
nope. not gonna' do it. spend most of my time looking at the phosphor end of the scope anyway.
Just for interest because I have never done it before looked at getting the 17xx feet contract printed by one of the usual suspects. 3Dhubs.com plenty of others out there along with likely someone nearby you. Pricing is in AUD so X about 0.7 for USD.
I set these up with the same parameters I recommended in the knobs and feet thread PETG adds a little to the price and would be easy to select.
Producing prints in PLA with say an Ender Pro is 2 hours build time and fairly much tick a box programming to slice existing models and insert a micro SD card. Reality would be watch some videos on youtube and you will have your first print in 3 or 4 hours of opening the box.
thanks for the information bean!
will noodle around on the interwebs and see who I can find locally.
ps your 3-4 hour estimate is waaaaaaay to optimistic since you did not account for the "bumbling old fool" factor.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/msg1621117/#msg1621117Naahhh... seriously. I'm a bumbler from way back; and I had my Tornado printing a test cube an hour after I cut the box open. Today's quick-build 80/20 frame 3D printers are just amazingly easy to get going; the 20% premium you pay for that "pre-assembled" design is well worth it, even to a cheap old bastahd like me. 2 major parts to bolt together, prewired, just plug in a half-dozen cables and
"It's ALI-I-I-I-IVE!!!" The pic you see above is
literally 3 minutes after I unpacked it. https://youtu.be/IYy5cD8xN_YAn hour later, I was printing this. I bought the Tornado because 1)
FAST 120VAC print bed (which, if you've been reading my story, you know has been a bit of a pain once I upgraded to mirror tile) and I had enough points on Banggood to bring the price down to ~$275 delivered.
Since then, CREALITY has supposedly redesigned their bed for a 5 minute heatup time, plus their auto-resume firmware is just bangin'.
The difference between the CR-10 and the Tornado is mostly the care with which it has been pre-assembled and a few better-made components. For that reason, I'd recommend the CR10S over the Tornado for a complete noob, or the CR10 Mini if a 220mm x 300mm build plate will do. A word of warning: You'll soon find you wish you had "just a little bigger", no matter HOW BIG a printer you get at first. Don't worry about it; the first one will NOT "go to waste".
Ender 3 Pro Kit 75% Assembledbean, IIRC nobody offers the Ender 3 in a 95% pre-assembled kit in two major components like the Tornado, right? I see them at ~$209/239, but they are still more like 75% assembled vs 95% like the CR10 and the Tornado.
mnem
*wibble*