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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Treasure chest

Printer settings: 10% infill, 1 shell, 0.27mm layer height, 230c / 110c HBP
Scaled down to 66% of the original.

Brown acrylic paint on the rough texture gave an excellent wood grain look

You can see the bottom edges have a bit of a curl upwards, 110C is a little too hot for my HBP. 105C seems to produce much better results.


Hinges snap together.

Map painted with watercolors.

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

3d printer test + cat = dunce cap

Testing out dual extrusion on the FlashForge.
Kitty was not amused

While dual extruding did work just fine there were a few issues. There is a slight offset on the X axis but only ~0.05mm this could just be that the heads on not sitting perfect on the carriage. Also during dual extruding both nozzles are always kept at 230C this causes the nozzle not in use to slowly leak ABS all over the print. Too bad the firmware doesn't keep the nozzle just under melting temp until needed.