I've Gone and Done Something Mental

[ajlelectronics]

I have a filament dryer now. It is pretty poorly designed as standard, so I have done a quick mod that helps the filament exit smoothly. Seems to work and I think I can see an improvement in print quality. The mod is just the old Bowden tube and ferrule laid in the plain hole provided for exit of the filament.

Now I want to do something about the gantry height to give me back the original capability. With the Micro Swiss extruder, it fouls on the gantry when it gets too high. As it has dual Z drive, I need to keep the ends of the horizontal beam in situ. My idea is to get some pieces of extrusion and cut them to match the 40x20 uprights. Then fit a pair of short lenghts at right angles and then another slightly longer beam at the back. That should give the extruder room to move.

How do you joint the 20x20 extrusion at right angles?

 

[Dutch Welder]

There are angled t slot connectors available.
Either simple stamped corners, but also some rather nice and sturdy aluminium ones.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Here is another one. A 10mm spacer for fitting dimmer or Alexa switches into 1G shallow back boxes...

 

[ajlelectronics]

There are angled t slot connectors available.
Either simple stamped corners, but also some rather nice and sturdy aluminium ones.

Could you point me to some please?

 

[Dutch Welder]

If you search for t slot right angle lots will pop up.
As I am from Holland all my usual suppliers are as well, so they are of little use to you, but as an example.

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[carbon]

I’ve used this company for extrusion and brackets in the past, but may not be cost effective if only needing some brackets.

KJN

 

[badabec]

Sunday was spent drawing a couple of esoteric prints. These are for a CItroen DS with the 'third nose' or shark nose. They have what is called a '3 dial dash'. On mine, the speedo was in KPH (left hooker). I managed to find a couple of MPH speedos.
The problem is later this year we hope to go on a tour around France. In the past I've swapped the speedo. Instead I printed this plus one in MPH.
The silver pen is a bit wobbly on the raised numerals and batons, but in real life and with my eyes, they are good enough.

 

[Onoff]

Sunday was spent drawing a couple of esoteric prints. These are for a CItroen DS with the 'third nose' or shark nose. They have what is called a '3 dial dash'. On mine, the speedo was in KPH (left hooker). I managed to find a couple of MPH speedos.
The problem is later this year we hope to go on a tour around France. In the past I've swapped the speedo. Instead I printed this plus one in MPH.
The silver pen is a bit wobbly on the raised numerals and batons, but in real life and with my eyes, they are good enough.

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You could have just changed to silver filament for the raised numerals.

 

[badabec]

Yes.
I have an ender3 v2, bog standard, out of the box, no upgrades at all. I would like a dual extruder, but for now, a silver pen will have to do.
I've tried changing the filament part way through, hmmm, my timing was a bit out. When I changed filament on one print, a tiny raised bump was left sticking up, this caught on the nozzle and ping, the print moved on the bed.

 

[Dr.Al]

Too much time on my hands before going back to work tomorrow. I've been playing with alternative printer control knobs...

Ship's Wheel:

Involute Gear (bit stringy, but I really like this one):

 

[MattF]

You could have just changed to silver filament for the raised numerals.

Some of us ain't that adept.

 

[m_c]

A couple hours this evening resulted in this -

to do this-

Could do with something a bit more grippy, but it grips enough that it requires quite noticeably more effort to move the lever, which should hopefully be enough to avoid idiotic tractor drivers from trying to lift up and bend all the hedgecutter supports again.

 

[Anguz]

56pages ago @Parm was gonna print a knife sharpening jig..........

 

[AndersK]

Knifes arent dull yet

 

[Parm]

56pages ago @Parm was gonna print a knife sharpening jig..........

Gimme a chance. I’ve only just made the knifes

plus I’m keeping the forum tradition going. 97 pages of sage advice before I think about doing something...

 

[AndersK]

Been sketching on an enclosure and right now printing some of the brackets to get a feel if the concept is alright.
Yes, there will be a door, eventually...

 

[Dr.Al]

I quite like this printing thing: stuff gets made while I get on with other stuff! It also opens up the rabbit hole of designing & making stuff to add to the printer...

Last night's design efforts:

A PSU-mounted toolbox with holes for the tools I want to keep on the printer and hooks on the side for stuff that suits hooks better:

and a little frame-mounted rail for storing spare filament clips:

 

[AndersK]

I quite like this printing thing: stuff gets made while I get on with other stuff!

Indeed it does. Yesterday I realized I've been awake and working for 21 hours... It's addictive.

Alarm goes off in about 5 hours so I better hit the bed now

Those who knows knows what this is.

 

[Dr.Al]

Indeed it does. Yesterday I realized I've been awake and working for 21 hours... It's addictive.

Alarm goes off in about 5 hours so I better hit the bed now

Those who knows knows what this is.

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That photo really confused me for a second: it looked like you had a printer toolbox exactly like mine. Then I realised it was my photo in the background on your computer screen

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Those who knows knows what this is.

Is the closing handle back to front?