Argghhh! Can you coil it back up? :-)
My office (where the printer is at) shares a wall with the master bedroom, so that gives me another reason to NOT do overnight printing. My wife has commented on waking up early in the morning and hearing "music". It's the 3D printer plodding along. So I now spend my late evenings getting everything ready, and cranking up the printer in the morning.
I didn't realize *until today* that the Dremel Slicer actually does a print-time estimate. So that'll help in the future.
Did my largest single piece yesterday, took 13 and a half hours to print.
Ron Wanttaja
I'm imagining a device you can dump all your 3d print screwups into and it chews it up and extrudes out a new spool of filament.
Well, here's the "amorphous blob" integrated into the main project. This is a full-scale, non-fireable wooden/plastic replica of a WWI Lewis Gun. Picture was taken during the final fit check prior to finishing. The main receiver, the barrel, and the gas tube (below the barrel) are wood, nearly everything else was drawn in Solidworks and printed on my 3D printer. I've learned a LOT on how to run Solidworks, now, though I've still got a long way to go.
BTW, a "Quaker" in armaments lingo is a dummy wooden gun. Hence the logo.
The drum is from a commercial kit sold by https://www.foxflier.com/lewis/, although I did my own handle.
Hardest part is getting a metallic sheen on the wood and plastic. In the past, I've painted it gloss black and then sprayed it with matte finish. A product called "Rub N Buff" can be used on corners to simulate wear...that's on the drum, in fact.
Ron "Odd little quarantine project" Wanttaja
And...project completed. Learned a lot about Solidworks this way.
It's about three pounds of wood and plastic.
Ron Wanttaja
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