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Tips/Techniques Which printer to buy advice needed

Tips/Techniques
For my 3rd printer I was hoping to avoid the slow death of tinkering to make things work right and finally put the money down on a Bambu P1S. So far I've printerd at least 6 rolls of PLA with only a few print failures. All but one of these have been due to user error and learning . They are not cheap, but they have been the closest to plug and play i have come across. so far have printed in PLA PETG and TPU
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Aarknoid said:
For my 3rd printer I was hoping to avoid the slow death of tinkering to make things work right and finally put the money down on a Bambu P1S. So far I've printerd at least 6 rolls of PLA with only a few print failures. All but one of these have been due to user error and learning . They are not cheap, but they have been the closest to plug and play i have come across. so far have printed in PLA PETG and TPU
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I want to know more about what you are printing @Aarknoid. Models? Fixtures? Tooling? Post a new thread!
And you seem to have a resin printer too? What are you printing with that unit?
 
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Janger said:
I want to know more about what you are printing @Aarknoid. Models? Fixtures? Tooling
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Yes. lol

If people want to know a bit more will post a new thread for it , but for now those pics top to bottom are:

1) some tabletop gaming model for battletech for a friend and to test the smaller nozzle
2) two adapters for my dewalt router; big one is a track saw track adapter for the router, and the smaller piece is a dust collector adapter for the same router
3) printer with the newest additions, resin printer, but they were just taken out of the box. The plan is to do some lost wax casting with some fancy wax resin one day
4) blade protector for a cutter arm at work, the arm swipes across to cut a label off a roll before a robot arm comes and picks it up
5) adapter i designed myself to allow me to flatten a ridge on a work bench that was 1/4 " too high , this may not be the best way to do it , but it did work .

everything but the figures were done in solid works i believe, the last two were for sure
 
Aarknoid said:
4) blade protector for a cutter arm at work, the arm swipes across to cut a label off a roll before a robot arm comes and picks it up
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Video tour of that machine working and the guard! or at least some pictures. :cool:
 
I have been very tempted to buy an X1C/PS1 with AMS for a while, and give up on building a voron. Your nice prints aren't helping.
 
Dan Dubeau said:
I have been very tempted to buy an X1C/PS1 with AMS for a while, and give up on building a voron. Your nice prints aren't helping.
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I did this - I realized i had no interest in spending the time it would require to tune the printer, deal with all the parameters and diagnose issues when they came out. It sucks because I had bought 80% of what I needed, but I am quite happy with my X1C - it just works and sending prints without having to use an SD card is something I never want to give up.
 
Very happy with my X1C as well. Its been better than expected. Most prints look better than expected. With all the money i'm saving by coming up with all sorts of new projects, it's almost paid for itself.
 
Darren said:
These just came off my x1c. Cable glands for a few upcoming projects. They are 6 bucks each at HD, and I printed a few dozen for 3 bucks.

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And a few E stop button and tach box

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What material? I printed some 1.5 to 3/4 inch hose adapters for the irrigation system in PETG and while they work, they do not withstand any bending at all. I tried printing in a different orientation with the filament running lengthwise and while they were a bit better, they leaked a bit.
 
I used elegoo PLA+ . They seem pretty tough. I will let you know if any fail. These wont see much stress though.
 
Doggggboy said:
What material? I printed some 1.5 to 3/4 inch hose adapters for the irrigation system in PETG and while they work, they do not withstand any bending at all. I tried printing in a different orientation with the filament running lengthwise and while they were a bit better, they leaked a bit.
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@Doggggboy Have you tried Poly carbonate - PC? I've had some better results with that,

@Dabbler and I also bought some BASF tough PLA. Jury is still out on what we think.
 
Janger said:
@Doggggboy Have you tried Poly carbonate - PC? I've had some better results with that,

@Dabbler and I also bought some BASF tough PLA. Jury is still out on what we think.
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I printed the 27 hour skull in PC. Turned out nice but it may be a little to brittle for a hose fitting.
It would hold the pressure fine but I don't know if it could stand the bending when moving the hoses around.
 
I printed some electrical enclosures last night with Elegoo Rapid PLA+. Had a few issues off the get go with blobbing and tearing the first layer off the bed. I googled and found some advice and tweaked the settings. I must say i'm very impressed with it. It feels more like ABS than PLA and the surface finish is very nice.
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Darren said:
I printed some electrical enclosures last night with Elegoo Rapid PLA+.
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I've wasted a lot of money on "make it work" cabinets that were all I could find. Those are drop dead gorgeous Darren. Awesome work!

You could probably include mounting points for connector busses and plates. Would look amazing.

Edit - best of all, if it doesn't fit, just make another one!
 
They actually look much better to the naked eye than in the photo. From a foot away you can't see the layer lines. At least I can't.

Point of the post was the material. Normal PLA is very stiff and hard feeling. Little flexibility and probably wouldn't handle any impacts. This stuff is much better. Feels a lot more like an ABS type material.

There are 1000's of electrical boxes on Thingiverse. Many have mounts and stuff. Of course you can always customize the designs too.

Best part is that they only cost a buck or two to print,
 
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