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Build Reports / Re: Hot Cake (Fritter) just the syrup I needed
« on: January 18, 2020, 08:55:43 PM »
I really love the artwork and etch on this! So sweet with the stomp placement.
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Dang. I didn’t realize SLA has gotten that accessible. That’s cheap! Whats the build volume? How is the smell/mess? And I love that goo is part of the name.
Build volume is tiny. In the pic I posted above.....that's the entire build plate (in terms of X / Y). It's 120 x 68 x 155mm (Z).
It's messier than it is smelly, in my opinion. The Elegoo brand resin is actually not that bad smell-wise. But that shit gets everywhere if you're not meticulous, and it's pretty nasty stuff. Resin printing is both messy and a bit wasteful (gloves, isopropyl alcohol, paper towels, etc). It also requires a whole cleanup process you don't need with FDM. And it requires a lot more supports for things that wouldn't be an issue with FDM, which means more time post-processing. But the print resolution is off the charts. And, because it's light-based and it can expose the entire build area at once, printing one of something takes as much time as printing 4 or 10 of that same model. So it's slow as hell for one-offs, but you make up for it when printing multiples.
The newer cheap SLAs are worth trying out if you're already a 3D printer guy. I wouldn't recommend this process for someone looking to get into 3D printing.
Nice work. That's been on my "to print" list for a while now, but D&D minis keep nudging it down the list.Which SLA printer did you get, CJ?
Elegoo Mars. It's pretty nice, but the build area is quite limiting. Still, it's good enough to do a lot of fun things. I modeled and printed a Gibson "poker chip" and next I'm going to do the pickup switch cavity cover. Did some guitar picks, too. They look like they rolled out of a factory. It's crazy.
According to the YouTube commercial, with only a tenth grade education, I can google how to be a physicist, watch some YouTube videos and work for NASA? I feel like I’ve wasted my life......
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I've been pleased with the TruTone CS6 on my Nano+ board. I may try one of their bigger supplies. That said, I also have not had any issues with the following:
Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2+ (I have three of these)
Voodoo Labs Mondo
Cioks Adam
MXR MC403
BBE Supa Charger
Came to work today and heard an interesting account.
All the conveyor belts at work have their bearings greased on a scheduled basis. The guy whose job it is was nipping around the plant with his grease gun, when he got up to our carton lift.
Now, it's a small platform that goes up and down inside a free-standing walled shaft. Boxes go into it on a conveyor, the conveyor on the platform takes them in, and then it goes up and unloads them onto another conveyor, higher up, all automatically.
So, the guy opens up the maintenance door at the bottom of the lift shaft, greases up the bearings closest to him, and then leans over the lift to grease the other side's bearings, blocking the built-in sensors as he did so.
Who can tell me what I didn't write?
He didn't lock out the isolator for the lift machinery.
He didn't even check that the isolator (and the lift) was turned off, at all.
He was damn lucky that another engineer was right there to turn the isolator off. The grease man is a tall guy, but even so he was on his tippy toes, caught between the partially raised platform and the upper edge of the maintenance entrance for the enclosed lift shaft. It was such a narrow gap his torso was stuck in, that the engineer was too scared to even turn the lift back on in manual mode, as he didn't feel they could take the chance of the platform lifting even a little bit more, so they went to the top of the lift and manually rewound the motor back by hand.
So, guess what training course a few of the maintenance guys are doing real soon.
*ALWAYS CHECK ISOLATORS ON MACHINERY YOU'RE WORKING ON!*