Ah. I'll definitely print another at high quality. Oddly the top is 9.5 as printed but the bottom is 70 thou smaller. Yup they were sized.
Awesome! will do! Also new releases. This is exciting!
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Lol, my 3.5 bearings came in the other day and I was busy. I asked my Wife to set them aside.........yup, gone forever
Look in the freezer........
My wife lost her small purse and keys once.......that's where we found them a month later. ;) Also all your trash cans.....that time it was me.
BTW......What's the typical time it takes to print the big base for you guys?????
I started my print yesterday and it failed (edges each side of the slides rose like Dracula from the coffin). Said it was going to take 45 hours! So today I looked at ways to speed it up.....infill stayed at 18%, but I changed it from lines to gyroid and it cut 6 hours off?!?!
I restarted the print, using RedlegEd's advice to use Acetone to clean the Creality treated glass bed.....seems to be working...3 hours in, and no lifting.
Below....gyroid version printing....the fail, with lines fill, on the right....same 18% fill. Hard to believe the gyroid waves is faster by 6 hours on IdeaMaker.
https://i.postimg.cc/8CxZbBRr/IMG-3637.jpg
Gyroid wins the cool-looking contest....
Also ordered TylerR's favorite bed made of polypropylene, but it won't arrive for a week. I appreciate their sage advice. This will be my first large Tyler base.....it's going to be a case collator for rifle (.223/.308) to be used on my Pro Chucker 7. Going to be a busy winter if I can keep my health.
This is not directly related to the Tyler/AM design so please don't shut me down right away lol
I print with a 0.8mm nozzle and what I gain speed, I lose in precision especially for precision fitting parts like this project.
When I had a 0.4mm nozzle, I still had tolerance issues.
What are you all doing to resolve this?
Tyler, I would love to hear your thoughts since you are the 3D printing guru here :P
I don't know about being a guru, but I can say I have struggled with dimensional accuracy before myself, especially with my first machine (Flashforge Creator Pro). I am getting far better prints with my Ender 5 using cura.
Using a .4mm nozzle is a must for certain parts of this project through. Especially things like the feeder dies.
OK, so I forget who it was, but someone posted a while back about a very unique slide plate they created for 6.5 Creedmoor bullets. I took a stab at creating it tonight, and think I have something workable. Only thing is I don't load 6.5 creedmoor, so if anyone wants to test it and report back please do. I have labeled it Slide_Feed_Nose_Up_#11. It is designed to match up with the large rifle bullet plate.
Here are pics of mine in green and the original in gray.
Attachment 271094
Yes, I was worried that the bed was toast. RedlegEd's acetone treatment worked better than my 99% isopropyl alcohol. What I'm printing is 4 walls variable layer height, 18% fill. 39 hours, but I'm wondering if I forgot to check for excess nozzle travel.....or maybe the variable layer height adds five hours...don't know.
Yeah, my "ironed" plate didn't look so hot, but it works like a dream.
So this morning at 16 hours here's some pictures to illustrate what this variable layer stuff is like....not yet printed up to the areas of most layer change, but the lower "blue" areas at <.20 looks pretty good except for the artifact at the ramp you can see in the close up. Of course that's in the trough too....with a ramp in....so what.
https://i.postimg.cc/HLVF99NQ/IMG-3638.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/Pq9938G0/IMG-3640.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/3RG6PJYN/IMG-3642.jpg
In this close up you can see the textured finish on the treated Creality Glass Bed. It is definitely sticking after the acetone wipe down, and the higher bed temp? I copied TylerR's temps......1st layer, 220C/80C. Then the rest of the print, 210C/70C. Filament BTW, is that black Overture PLA+.
Would this be the right slide plate to use for the big 200+ gr 308 bullets used for 300 Blackout (along with the large rifle plate)? I was never able to get these long bullets to work quite right in my AM feeder even after trying the plate linked below.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3547193Attachment 271119
Thanks!