3D Printer for the Woodshop?
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- This video is an overview of how a 3D printer works and provides reasons why a 3D printer may (or may NOT) be a good choice for your shop woodshop. Custom dust collection fittings, obsolete bandsaw table insert replacements, and pneumatic blast gate operators are shown.
Link to files for Woodstock International 4" splice hose connector: www.printables...
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Keep up the great work, Steve! I'll bet your kids grandkids are VERY proud of you. I'd love to see a shop tour and even a detail video of the pneumatic blast gate upgrades. Btw, my new martin slider is being delivered tomorrow afternoon and I'm so excited I can't even sleep! Merry Christmas to me. And thanks again for all your efforts. We truly appreciate you.
Thank you. That is awesome, a new Martin slider for Christmas. I have one more gate that is a potential upgrade. It is in my reach but just barely. It is one of my newer Nordfab gates and is different than the rest so back to the drawing board. If I do that one, I'll make a video on it. I previously did a shop tour and, while most seemed to appreciate it, there were too many negative, rude and spiteful (sometimes insulting) comments so I just took the video down. For the foreseeable future, shop views will just have to be glimpses seen in other videos. Merry Christmas. Steve
great video
Thank you.
Hi Steve I missed this one, great video with some brilliant examples. I've just replaced my printer with a Bambu P1P, its incredible both quality and speed. 👍👍
Thanks Graham. Based on several of the recommendations on this video, I upgraded to the X1C. While I initially had a failed display and some binding issues, it is a major improvement to the Ender3. My 13 yo grandson "earned" the old 3D printer by designing his own project (with a little help), printed it, and then it was his. He has now created his first project (a Christmas ornament) on his own. Steve
Great video Steve! Just to give a perspective on more expensive printers (I also started with a cheap one like yours): I have the new Bambu Lab X1C and with that you can really start printing straight away without any knowledge. The learning curve is way easier than with the cheap machine.
However, in my experience, a 3D printer is really only useful if you print your own designs. Printing other people's generic designs is fun for a few weeks, but then it gets stale. And designing your own stuff has the learning curve of learning a CAD program.
My point being: Even with an expensive machine that saves you the hassle of optimizing the 3D printing part, you still have to put effort in to learn modelling etc. But once you know the basics, it's fun to design your own pieces!
I just got the Bambu x1cc too. My first printer. I haven’t printed much for the shop yet, unless you count organization - the gridfinity system convinced me to finally get a printer and it’s pretty fun.
Steve - I grabbed your STL for the male hose adapter and sliced it for my BambuLab x1c. Standard settings out of the box (0.2mm layer height, 0.4mm nozzle), which has been printing PLA great. Total print time: 2h1m. You may want to consider the x1c, or the new p1p. It's so fast, pretty user friendly, and prints very well out of the box. It is my first printer and the learning curve has been very easy.
That is good to know. I'll have to check out that printer. I was looking at the new Prusa models that are supposed to be released soon. Steve
@@yertle38 Wow! That is an incredible reduction in time. Need to check that printer out.
@@extremewoodworker I think the BambuLab P1P is a better value than the Prusa right now. That may flip-flop as new models come out. I’m sure plenty of people own an x1 and a Prusa. I am biased because I have the Bambu, but that would get my vote for sure. I really like the x1c combo with the filament changer on top. It’s not cheap ($1600), but having multiple rolls of filament on hand, with the enclosure and camera and screen, is something I could not go back to doing without.
And it’s really really fast to print!
They are amazing to print broken parts or redesigned upgrades :) Husband has one and I regularly send jobs. I have some vacuum adapters amazing. You need to learn a CAD software..
I agree. To get the most out of it you definitely need to learn CAD.