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So I'm looking to get into small time hobbyist beginner 3D printing and the little research I have done so far led me to the Creality 3DŽ Ender-3 Pro. Watched a review and it seems good value for the money. The fact that you now can print soft rubber blew my mind a bit! Should I explore this model more, or am I wasting my time and YouTubers are shills or something? I don't have any specific projects, but printing minor hard to find plastic car stuff would be cool.
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Mar 5, 2021 16:11
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^^ I'll check it out. I'm not opposed to the price hike it's a better buy. Still pretty cheap. Ok cool. Excited about getting into 3D printing. Next question, what filaments should I get as a starter kit while I'm ordering? I trust the filament included will be pretty limited in quantity. The Creality 3DŽ Ender-3 Pro is pretty cheap, so I'll probably order it later today.
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Mar 5, 2021 16:55
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Speaking of ABS plastic (which would be interesting for me as I perhaps intend to make some car plastic parts), it appears as the bed of the Ender 3 V2 only gets up to 90 degrees, while the Ender 3 pro can get to 110 degrees which apparently is the sweet spot for ABS?
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Mar 5, 2021 22:17
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insta posted:It doesn't matter because the best material to print anything functional with is CF/GF Nylon, which can print on an 80C bed with just a MicroSwiss hotend. Sagebrush posted:CF-PETG is also good for when you want nearly as much toughness but the nylon is too flexible. Sometimes you can redesign the part and add stiffening ribs and whatnot, but sometimes you can't. Ok, watched some YouTube videos and I'm sold on CF nylon, and that solves the ABS problem. Thanks! I think I'll start with the cheapest material to get the hang of it, and upgrade later on to a metal hotend so I can do nylon. Edit: Ok Ender V2 ordered as well as some PLA and TPU do play around with once I get it. Down the rabbit hole we go! MrOnBicycle fucked around with this message at 13:39 on Mar 7, 2021 |
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Mar 7, 2021 07:41
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Ziggy Smalls posted:I recently upgraded my Creality CR-10s with the Micro Swiss all metal hotend and direct drive extruder. Cool. Bookmarked this for the future. Cheap to buy as well, so not that high of a barrier of entry neither.
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Mar 7, 2021 15:22
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Ok Ender 3 V2 arrived almost a week earlier than expected. Found the email in my spam folder. Anyway, assembled it and printed my first thing with the supplied PLA and standard settings. One of those calibration dice. ... man is this cool as hell. Turned out great as well. Now printing a platypus with the remaining PLA before I open up the PLA I bought.
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Mar 13, 2021 18:16
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Broke out the Amazon basics TPU roll and tried the squid in normal generic 95-settings in Cura. Standard resolution. Turned out drat near perfect. Don't know if I need to on the Ender 3 V2, but I tried it with some hairspray on the bed and there were 0 adhesion problems. I'm really liking this semi-rigid TPU material. Going to use it for anything that needs to be able to flex, even a little bit. PLA is nice for like models of tanks (printed a small StuH tank that turned out great IMO). I printed a case for holding T12 solder tips in PLA and 1/3 into the print I realised that the small clips would probably snap the instant I tried to snap the T12 tips in them and sure enough. Sucks on a 7 hour print, but meh, learning curve.
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Mar 16, 2021 22:18
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That success post made me think that I should design a chain guard for my bike asap. Only a matter of time before I ruin my trousers. Brims solved all adhesion issues on small parts in PLA for me. TPU is the only one that likes to "curl" it seems, but that was a for a big box thing. The octopus I printed came out near perfect.
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Mar 17, 2021 21:29
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TPU doesn't make any scent as well in my limited experience. Anything harmful in that?
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Apr 5, 2021 11:19
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