Glitterwolf Posted December 15, 2022 Share Posted December 15, 2022 Good print! To save resin you could hollow such a big one! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted December 15, 2022 Author Share Posted December 15, 2022 6 hours ago, Glitterwolf said: Good print! To save resin you could hollow such a big one! Yeah, I’m happy with it. The body is hollowed, as are the tail and base, which will be on the second build plate. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted December 16, 2022 Author Share Posted December 16, 2022 Red dragon base and tail successfully printed, cleaned and desupported. Took about 8 hours to print, so almost 18 hours to print the whole thing across 2 build plates. I had a minor moment of panic when I took the lid off and thought the tail failed on the very tip as there was a support hanging loose from it. Fortunately the piece of support had broken off somewhere else (no idea where, I couldn’t spot a broken support) and lightly stuck to the tail. Importantly it was not cured to it and I removed it without issue. Really happy printed the huge red dragon first up as anything else should be easy in comparison. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 The base fits together really nicely. The join is in a perfect spot that it almost won’t need to be milliput-ed at all. And a plate of Blood Bowl Dark Elves that also printed perfectly. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper_the_2nd Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Very nice! I got a Saturn 2 a month or so ago, but had barely set it up and had back surgery, so have just got back into it this last week. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 5 minutes ago, Jasper_the_2nd said: Very nice! I got a Saturn 2 a month or so ago, but had barely set it up and had back surgery, so have just got back into it this last week. Super happy with mine so far. The only fails I’ve had have been on manually supported minis and that was simply because it was a heavy mini I had with light supports. Everything else has been nice and smooth. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 Just spent a good couple of hours figuring out how to fix my Mercury X wash station. It wasn’t spinning and was making a grinding noise. Finally solved it after a trip to the hardware store to buy a tiny Allen key to tighten a tiny screw that commonly vibrates itself loose. 🤦♂️ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnwulf Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Olaf the Stout said: Just spent a good couple of hours figuring out how to fix my Mercury X wash station. It wasn’t spinning and was making a grinding noise. Finally solved it after a trip to the hardware store to buy a tiny Allen key to tighten a tiny screw that commonly vibrates itself loose. 🤦♂️ yeah, I had a problem with this, my wheel was broken out of the box, Elegoo replaced it without hassle. I DID model a replacement in tinkercad so I could use the wash station while waiting for the replacement. Be careful not to overtighten it. Unfortunately since the hub on that wheel is all plastic, the insert can sometimes crack loose and then you can't get it to tighten down at all... you might also look into putting some blue thread lock on it so it doesn't vibrate as much. I also removed two of the magnets from my wheel to reduce the spinning resistance. Still works fine, it takes a few seconds longer for the impeller to get up to speed but even with a 1 minute wash that's not much of a delay. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 6 hours ago, Cygnwulf said: yeah, I had a problem with this, my wheel was broken out of the box, Elegoo replaced it without hassle. I DID model a replacement in tinkercad so I could use the wash station while waiting for the replacement. Be careful not to overtighten it. Unfortunately since the hub on that wheel is all plastic, the insert can sometimes crack loose and then you can't get it to tighten down at all... you might also look into putting some blue thread lock on it so it doesn't vibrate as much. I also removed two of the magnets from my wheel to reduce the spinning resistance. Still works fine, it takes a few seconds longer for the impeller to get up to speed but even with a 1 minute wash that's not much of a delay. Cheers for the tips. It seems like it's just badly designed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnwulf Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Just now, Olaf the Stout said: It seems like it's just badly designed. It's a pretty simple and solid design hampered by cutting a corner on the material of the drive wheel. All metal might have been too heavy/expensive for it, but I feel like it needs a metal band around the post to anchor the set screw and provide some extra strength to what seems to be the main failure point. If I still had access to a machine shop I might try some alternate ideas I have for 'upgrades' but so far after removing the two magnets and adding the thread lock, mine's been chugging away over a year now without any difficulty. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 22 minutes ago, Cygnwulf said: It's a pretty simple and solid design hampered by cutting a corner on the material of the drive wheel. All metal might have been too heavy/expensive for it, but I feel like it needs a metal band around the post to anchor the set screw and provide some extra strength to what seems to be the main failure point. If I still had access to a machine shop I might try some alternate ideas I have for 'upgrades' but so far after removing the two magnets and adding the thread lock, mine's been chugging away over a year now without any difficulty. The drive shaft (or whatever the spinning metal pole is called) should have something other than a screw pushing against it to lock in place. It vibrates as part of its intended use, so it's no surprise that it will eventually come loose. I think the previous one I owned may have also had the same problem after 6 months. I never got to investigate the problem back then as the power supply died when I was trying to figure out what was going on and Amazon just got me to return the whole unit. I also had a new experience with my isopropyl alcohol yesterday. I thought the wash station wasn't spinning due to resin gunking up the spinner. So I transferred the isopropyl alcohol to another container to get a better look at the bottom of the wash unit. It was 31C yesterday where I live in Australia and my isopropyl must have had a decent amount of uncured resin mixed in with it as gummy resin started forming on the top and sides of the container almost as soon as I took it outside! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 Well, looks like my isopropyl has reached the end of it's life. Despite straining it yesterday, the prints I washed this morning came out with a tonne of resin gunk on them. Obviously the uncured resin sitting in the isopropyl got enough UV that it began to cure. 20lt can of replacement isopropyl ordered this morning. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaganMegan Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 On 12/21/2022 at 5:58 PM, Olaf the Stout said: Well, looks like my isopropyl has reached the end of it's life. Despite straining it yesterday, the prints I washed this morning came out with a tonne of resin gunk on them. Obviously the uncured resin sitting in the isopropyl got enough UV that it began to cure. 20lt can of replacement isopropyl ordered this morning. Gallon jugs of denatured alcohol have finally started showing up in our local hardware stores again, after YEARS. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted January 28 Author Share Posted January 28 (edited) Not quite 3D printing, but very similar. I started the year by creating a “use it or lose it” list of my hobby stuff. It’s a list of things I’ve had for too long without using much. I’ve decided if they don’t get used in the next 12 months, I will sell them. One of the things on my list is some Hirst Arts casts that I’ve had sitting around since 2011 (yep, almost 12 years!). Last night I finally got to building a fieldstone bridge I had. I’ve still got a little bit more to go as I needed to let the glue dry on the pieces I build before I could do the next step, but I did dry fit it to see what the finished product will look like. Overall I’m happy with how it has gone and building with Hirst Arts is still just as fun as I remember it. It’s basically LEGO with wood glue! Even though I have a 3D printer now, I’d definitely still consider doing stuff like this. However, I’m not sure whether I feel the same way about the casting process, which can be time consuming. Still, this was fun. Edited January 28 by Olaf the Stout 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitterwolf Posted January 28 Share Posted January 28 3 minutes ago, Olaf the Stout said: Not quite 3D printing, but very similar. I started the year by creating a “use it or lose it” list of my hobby stuff. It’s a list of things I’ve had for too long without using much. I’ve decided if they don’t get used in the next 12 months, I will sell them. One of the things on my list is some Hirst Arts casts that I’ve had sitting around since 2011 (yep, almost 12 years!). Last night I finally got to building a fieldstone bridge I had. I’ve still got a little bit more to go as I needed to let the glue dry on the pieces I build before I could do the next step, but I did dry fit it to see what the finished product will look like. Overall I’m happy with how it has gone and building with Hirst Arts is still just as fun as I remember it. It’s basically LEGO with wood glue! Even though I have a 3D printer now, I’d definitely still consider doing stuff like this. However, I’m not sure whether I feel the same way about the casting process, which can be time consuming. Still, this was fun. /cdn-cgi/mirage/469b68ce7fa34336ab9afa8f70396beee043ed967462e14d6cc569d3b37013ee/1280/https://forum.reapermini.com/uploads/monthly_2023_01/CC0CAFAA-0811-4275-8387-5EB26292182C.thumb.jpeg.097476fe9560abfef26ee428dcdf0822.jpeg /cdn-cgi/mirage/469b68ce7fa34336ab9afa8f70396beee043ed967462e14d6cc569d3b37013ee/1280/https://forum.reapermini.com/uploads/monthly_2023_01/657B7333-767F-4394-B8C8-B1D7547D911F.thumb.jpeg.59601d6699933f9f36fc48b1825dc070.jpeg /cdn-cgi/mirage/469b68ce7fa34336ab9afa8f70396beee043ed967462e14d6cc569d3b37013ee/1280/https://forum.reapermini.com/uploads/monthly_2023_01/C5C12C6D-C212-47F9-8023-61E6F3937B94.thumb.jpeg.2563f91c6ea6b9110d816df29ba19452.jpeg /cdn-cgi/mirage/469b68ce7fa34336ab9afa8f70396beee043ed967462e14d6cc569d3b37013ee/1280/https://forum.reapermini.com/uploads/monthly_2023_01/B634D0F9-751E-4F55-97B5-59FAAC5B52FE.thumb.jpeg.d17240b83b0183a97492302d18a709b8.jpeg That's a beautiful bridge. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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