3D Printing

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The exposed wires are giving me anxiety

What would you do about them?

More cat proofing today.

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What would you do about them?

Some sort of conduit would be the obvious thing - I'd probably use split flexible conduit which is good for tidying wires, e.g.
https://www.wickes.co.uk/TTE-Black-Corrugated-Flexible-Conduit---20mm-x-5m/p/109675

I did see the duck/whale on Instagram and wondered why on earth you were ruining the lovely clean lines of your KEF speakers, but now it all makes sense!

What model are they btw? I fancy a pair when I've finished (re)building a house to put some in.

LS50 IIRC

Anyone here used Xometry for metal printing? I'm looking to get some direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) parts done in aluminium. I quite like their no-bullshit site and instant online quoting.

Non more duck and whale, instead elevation.

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Dear thread
Our son was gifted a resin printer this weekend so we're starting playing around with the stuff. The printer is an anycubic photon m5.
His first chosen test print consists of a bunch of parts that ate supposed to be fitted together. First impression is that they don't fit very well so I was wondering how much of a thing shrinking/expansion after printing is? Does it vary between machines or resins? Or if there are other obvious causes?

the tolerances can vary for different printers / printer types.
i've found a bit of trial and error is needed to get interlocking parts to fit.
i sometimes print out a couple of thin slices with different tolerances to test parts before printing an entire model to save time / filament etc.

you can also try and find a file with a print profile that has been configured for your specific printer.

Cheers.
Test printing is obvious.
I hope the slicing software has easy tolerance-settings. We'll see when I get time next.

I'd like to get one of these, but I don't have a 3D printer:

https://www.printables.com/model/67456-specialized-pizza-rack-light-mount

What are my options if I wanted to get hold of one relatively quickly? Is there anywhere in north/East London that can do it, or someone on here with a printer who could do it? (Would obvs cover filament + beer money)

I can probably print that and post it in the next couple of days if that's quick enough

That would be amazing, thanks! Can you PM your payment details/how much you'd want for it?

Printing is the fastest part. Didn't have black, so you've got translucent blue 💙

Pm me your address and I'll try and pop it in the post tomorrow.

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Looks excellent, thanks so much! PMing now

Now I want to know, what project made you buy translucent blue filament?

Cor, I wish I had the impulse control for my decision hierarchy to be project > filament, and not filament > hmm project??

But what if you had an emergency situation and you didn't have the right filament on hand?!?!

Exactly.

The blue is giving me wicked n64/console special edition vibes. Where’s it from @moocher?

It's this brand

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Test fit looks pretty tidy, thanks @moocher!

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Nice. Just need to buy a blue bike now

Couldn’t resist the Black Friday sales. Just a brief setup before setting it up properly in its home over the weekend.

Definitely a premium product. The whole experience from adding spools to the AMS to printing from the app and creating timelapse’s is easy.

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Nice! I got the P1S with AMS. It's so good!

Lovely stuff. If memory serves you had some thing already, what's it replacing?