Robert_Ripley opened this issue on Sep 13, 2014 · 46 posts
bantha posted Tue, 16 September 2014 at 12:09 AM
@Ambientshade, the small pot is the Pro part. It's the standard giveaway on fairs from Statasys. The Buddah is a slightly different material, but printed on my printer. And - all good with the girl, I just wanted to mention why there's no cleaned up image of her.
If you are more interested in a resin printer, I already mentioned the B9Creator and the Form1, both are cheap for resin printers. (2500$-5000$) The print material is more pricey too. They do have better details and don't show the typical layer lines of FDM printers. But with a layer height of 50 microns (0.05 mm), you don't see the layers with an FDM printer either.
@Seachnasaigh, Bendlay is probably a good material for what you plan. It prints very similar to ABS, but it's clear like acrylic, In addition, it's food save (is that the right way to say that in english? You can use it for food containers). so even in heavy rain you won't have some chemicals in your garden.
@pumeco, The Idea of Reprap is that the printers are build from printed parts whereever possible. Parts like the Wade Extrudér don't allow for much gaps. A printer who isnt't able to print fitting parts into small tolerances is nearly useless.
Here is a (very short) clip with an gear bearing I printed. The whole bearing is done in one piece, the gears are herringbone gears so the whole thing cannot be disassembled. It rotates very well, so my tolerances should be okay.
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