3D printers and stuff related to them or made on them!

Last two months besides working on the new shop, i managed to hoard 8 new 3D printers made by Creality at some silly low prices, roughly:
Creality Ender 5 plus for 447 Euro
Creality CR-X dual extruder for 253 Euro
Creality CR-10S PRO V2 for 253 Euro
Creality CR-5 PRO two of them for 263 Euro each
Creality CR-10 MAX three of them for 263 Euro each
I needed to print a small box for a single arduino, i swear !!!
If i can manage the time i plan on converting one of the CR-10 MAX to LinuxCNC or even better, build a new one something like the VORON or HevOrt, both are Core-XY type and can move at ridiculous speeds due to the low mass of moving parts.
On the brighter side of things, most of them spent some 4 or 5 days printing parts for drag chains/cable chains and earlier i did print some motor holders and idler mounts for a printer made out of 45X45 Bosch alu profiles, not those puny 20X20 ones.
Nuff talk, pictures:







If anyone is interested in more of this let me know.

Welcome to the plasticky side !!!

Pretty nice printing... my Ender is not as good, but maybe it's my settings dunno.

JT

BigJohnT wrote:

Pretty nice printing... my Ender is not as good, but maybe it's my settings dunno.

JT

Post some pictures here, most of the issues are easy to point out.

anfänger wrote:

Till then I simply watch here

Enjoy:




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A few years ago I bought a 3D printer, the cheapest on eBay at £200, as a "toe-dipping" exercise to learn what I really wanted in a 3D printer.
I am still using the same one.

I have found it really useful for 3D printing foundry patterns, as things like loose parts and support parts are really easy to design and print.

One example:

Lathe steady, original in the left, 3D printed patterns in the middle, castings on the right.



And the finished part.

Two things i noticed lately:
Andy has a 3D printer, seen it on a picture yesterday with rolls of filament, and now openly admitting it !
And 3D printers are used a lot in small/home/shop foundries, frankly that is magnificent.
It has gone far from printing only vases and small toys, and that was the main reason i still have plenty of parts to build at least 2 of quite big 3D printers all over the shop but i never did that. Back then a search for 3d printed would come back pretty much empty handed.