Monday, February 18, 2019

Even more 3d printing adventures

Introduction


With the enhancements done last time, the printer was now working acceptably. However, "acceptable" levels of accuracy are note enough when printing, let's say, miniatures!

Aluminium replacement parts


We bought replacement parts. No, having a 3d printer is not a cheap affair. Although at this point, with the amount of extra time and money invested in this, we may have been better off with a more expensive variant out-of-the-box.

Anyway, here's how it looks like after another day of work:


We even replaced the wooden board we hand-crafted:




Here's the entire thing:


And here's a printed piece of plastic (after another round of calibrations). Also here's the "fix" for the belt which became too short after the new parts were applied.


So far, so good. I'm curious to see how the minis will look!

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