Eight boats
Oct. 1st, 2012 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rbandrewsIn four different types.
Here's a lot of boats. The boat is a good test print: takes about 5-10 minutes, it's got thin walls, curves, infill, cavities, and it's small so it's near the middle of the platform (which means less leveling problems).
So these boats. The top left ones, blue, are ABS on the Solidoodle. It could still use a little tuning. The bottoms are slightly warped from being pulled off a heated bed, and there are the usual Solidoodle globbiness issues.
The black ones are ABS on the Replicator. The best ABS parts I was ever able to get out of it (so far). Stringy on top, curled up a little on bottom, but otherwise acceptable.
The green ones are PLA on the Replicator. One of them the bottom is all fuzzy where the bed was set too high so it scraped against the tape. The other one is pretty much perfect though. I probably won't make any more of these because I only have a few yards of green PLA (it was a free sample from Ultimachine.com).
The gray ones are my favorite. They are PLA on the Replicator, a color that I have a whole kilo of. Really well-made parts, easy-and-fun-to-work-with plastic.
Here's a lot of boats. The boat is a good test print: takes about 5-10 minutes, it's got thin walls, curves, infill, cavities, and it's small so it's near the middle of the platform (which means less leveling problems).
So these boats. The top left ones, blue, are ABS on the Solidoodle. It could still use a little tuning. The bottoms are slightly warped from being pulled off a heated bed, and there are the usual Solidoodle globbiness issues.
The black ones are ABS on the Replicator. The best ABS parts I was ever able to get out of it (so far). Stringy on top, curled up a little on bottom, but otherwise acceptable.
The green ones are PLA on the Replicator. One of them the bottom is all fuzzy where the bed was set too high so it scraped against the tape. The other one is pretty much perfect though. I probably won't make any more of these because I only have a few yards of green PLA (it was a free sample from Ultimachine.com).
The gray ones are my favorite. They are PLA on the Replicator, a color that I have a whole kilo of. Really well-made parts, easy-and-fun-to-work-with plastic.
