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Anyone on the forum with a 3D printer?
This is somewhat off topic for this forum so I'll keep it brief: I need a small and simple plastic item replicating. I'm sure I have seen members mentioning making items with a 3D printer, so if anyone can help, please PM me!
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Hi Edmund
I'm in Canada so unfortunately I can't be of much help to you but what I wanted to suggest was to check with your local library. I wanted to get a printer to make some glass plate holders for my 4x5 but before I laid out the cash, I wanted to check the design. Turns out our libraries have what they call "Makerspaces" which have 3D printers - you send them the design file and they'll print it out for a nominal fee (in my case, the price of the material). There was a bit of a queue and it took a week or so but not too bad In the end, I did buy a printer and between me and the grandkids it's actually been pretty useful. Hope you get it worked out Dave |
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Hi Dave, Thanks for your reply. Definitely nothing like that in our local library - I live in a small country town where we're lucky to even keep our Library.
In fact the issue is more that I don't have any CAD software or the inclination to learn to use it. I just have too much else on the go! Quote:
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The thing that immediately springs to mind for me is the gap in the market for 6x4 easels. Anyone with knowledge of how to set up a 3D printer could easily make plastic easels liked the Paterson 5x7 but in other sizes and as the set up cost is relatively small per product I can see money to be made.
Like you Dave I neither have the inclination to learn how to operate one so therefore not the will to invest in such a printer but like you I feel I'd be willing to pay a reasonable amount for a product that no longer seems to be made Mike |
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For CAD software, Tinkercad is pretty easy to learn and is free - it runs in your web browser (https://www.tinkercad.com). Took me a long evening (or two...) to learn enough to make a small widget or two. It's all graphical and you basically glue basic shapes (cubes, cones, wedges, tubes etc) together to make a more complex shape. Mike - one snag with 3d printing is that it is slow - something the size of a simple 4x5 easel would take several hours to print (perhaps 3 to 5 hours, possibly quite a bit longer if it is in multiple parts). It would be fine for your own use, but the time it would take and the poor finish quality from a home printer pretty much rules out commercial use. You can get commercial grade resin printers, but then you are talking multiple thousands of beer-tokens each and it will still take an hour or two to print (albeit at much higher quality). Last edited by Bob; 19th May 2020 at 12:25 AM. |
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Good Morning Edmund.
Is this a case of needing just one copy of an item? Is it Photo related- if so, then is it possible someone on the forum might actually have a spare for the asking? Obviously if you need to make 1000 copies of a tiny plastic bust of Boris Johnson we can't be of any help. |
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Thanks Bob. A reality check should have told me that a home 3D printer might not be up to the job but two things may have stopped this check.
1. Photrio tends to be full of members for whom 3D printers seem to be part of the furniture and with no mention of cost and 3D seems to be the stock solution to many of these kind of problems raised there. Mind you the U.S. seems still to be full of small workshops run by nice Jed Clampett kind of guys who will willingly turn their hand to any problem a customer turns up with The U.K. or certainly this region of the U.K. seems to have none of the small engineering shops left 2. Someone with access to a school 3D printer and a bit of spare time was able to make me a superb model of Ralph Lambrecht's test strip printer. Ralph has freely given out the details for anyone to use to construct a printer So I never made the connection but should have between what a school has and needs for its design and technology classes compared to what is available and within the average budget of a home user Mike |
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It would be nice to see a picture of the item to be made.
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No harm in enquiring: https://www.srb-photographic.co.uk/about-us-1-w.asp Terry S |
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Sent you a PM Edmund
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