How is this allowed to continue? An employee of ours bought a Generac generator online. It was half price. Luckily, he used PayPal. They had a fake shipping company that claimed it was shipped to the New York port. Well, it never showed up. Google mapped the supplier in Indonesia via the address. It was a copy store in a slum area. PayPal gave him his money back. They had been scammed several times by this website—John’s Mower Service. If it’s too good to be true, it’s a scam.
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Because scammers that can spoof hotlinks to prey on people who don’t pay attention (verify/validate URLs before clicking) will never go away.
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I’m planning on remaking a couple of these parts. I’m worried about it breaking along printing planes so I’m thinking about making it in multiple pieces and then assembling it at the end.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how to make this as strong as possible?
I currently have one printing in a solid piece to check sizing, its about 3 x 4 inches
Bambulabs has several suggestions for strength. Increase the hot end size:
But a very new hot end is the High Flow. I have it on the H2D and it is not only stronger prints but faster.
Two different infills that are consistently considered strong are 3D Honeycomb and Gyroid.
Now this guy suggested something totally “crazy.” Since PLA and Crazy glue bond very well with each other, he suggested applying super glue to the outside of the print. The glue will coat in those tiny cracks of the layer lines. Spray it with activator and you have a massively strong print.
Slant 3D says to put a pattern around the outside and that will cause more concentration of material with the walls. If the pattern is too far away from the outside wall, you might cause the opposite effect of adding strength. Have the pattern and the outer wall close enough that they actually fuse to each other.
Crazy Casey has already mentioned the annealing process but I don’t think that would work out well for those parts as the dimension might change.
Still researching this topic because it is a very important one.
This guy offers many ideas of adding rods, bolts and other things to the interior of the print. He suggests it is similar to adding rebar to concrete. It could be difficult with your project Tin.
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@TinWhisperer has all the manuals on the planet, @ChelanJim is the master researcher.
Me, Print in three pieces, a capscrew through the barrel into the rectangular base, a capscrew through the 45* end into the rectangular base. Key everything to align before the screws.
ETA - print hollow, 1mm wall, fill with epoxy.
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Sticks, I really like that idea of filling with epoxy. I will do that on some project in the future.
How is it going to be loaded/intended use?
The crazy glue thing is an interesting idea.
I have printed threaded parts before and added cap screws with great success.
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Feel bad for this kid.
“A 12-year-old boy has made remarkable progress in his recovery, after a freak accident involving his 3D printer.”
It also doesn’t seem like the printer was involved in any way.
You see more of this anti 3D printer propaganda popping up these days.
Many stories involving ghost guns appearing.
Smells like 3D printer regulation is inbound.
But not just regulation with 3D printing. I think regulation with micromanufacturing in general is going to become a hot button issue.
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This was a very misleading report. They don’t explain what he was trying to do. They called it a “damp” paper towel, suggesting that it was just wet with water.
I am going out on a limb and bet it was an ABS print and he was doing some smoothing with acetone.
Regulations? Where there is money lost in revenue to the government, you can bet someone is trying to figure out a way to capture it. First they will likely start with a tax on the raw product (filament).
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I did a recent print with TPU: I ignored the Relative Humidity of the Bambu Lab AMS HT - Automatic Material System. This filament has sat for more than 2 months without use and without drying. I just needed a utility print for “feet” for a riser I had made for a little fan. If it turned out poorly, it would not be a big deal.
Sorry that the photo does not show the indicator on the AMS but if you could read it, it is saying that there is 54% RH. The print turned out perfectly without any bubbling or stringing. This picture is taken with the plate having just been taken out of the printer.
Correction of a previous post:
I am giving a cautionary note of the “E3D High Flow ObXidian HotEnd” for the X1C. They have preset configurations for PLA, PETG, PC and ABS filament. But you have to come up with profiles for other filaments. There are a few more in Wiki.bambu. I just am not that into experimenting with all the settings: That is why I bought Bambu.
I have the hotend but have not tried it yet. Perhaps my opinion will change after use.
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Because if it just saves one life, it’s worth it to stop everyone from doing it.
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Get rid of the Safety warning labels and the red circles with the slash through them, after a year or so, nature will have self corrected to cull the stupid from the human herd.
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The regulation is about control not safety.
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And we control the population by disguising it as safety
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So they said the fire was in the basement, but could have been much worse as they had Propane tanks outside on the deck. But yet the Camera showed a gas can and a generator that looked like it might have been in the house?
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@Knick it’s all weird but we’re supposed to skip by all that because 3D printers R bad
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but PEOPLE WILL DIE
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As you can see, the 3d printer was not damaged at all. It appears that the only involvement the printer had was making the parts that he was trying to “stick together”.
I think the little guy was playing with fire and he didn’t want to tell his mom.
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Human soaked in flammable liquid + paper rag soaked in accelerant + any random spark = Human torch!
This was someone playing with things they shouldn’t have been without proper training or supervision. The 3D printer is an incent Goat stacked out for the Trolls!
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NC boy survives accident involving 3D printer, faces long recovery after severe burns :: WRAL.com https://share.google/JG6yd2I9w8roDNxdR
That article popped up again for me.
Definitely the printer’s fault. The 3D printer was involved… Ridiculous.
Journalism is insane. Less about the news and more so about manipulation.
Let us obfuscate the story and take you on a emotional roller coaster…lol
It’s too bad some of the 3D printer companies wouldn’t throw some of their legal funds at stomping out these obvious attempts to make 3D printing look bad.
The 3D printer was just as involved in the story as the Chair he was sitting on or the stairs he took to walk down to the basement or the breakfast he ate that morning to give him the energy to work on his project.
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