Total Newb, Rushing Down Another Rabbit Hole!

I level my Ender 3 Pro once a week at most, just in case. No other fiddling required. Just moved to Simpify3D as well for more quality control.
 
As you will find, the opportunities for making items to utilize in the shop are endless. I recently made an adapter to go from my biscuit joiner (which makes a huge amount of dust) directly to my Craftsman shop vac hose. Before, I had a cobbled up mess of some copper tube and hose clamps. Also made some adapters for my Rikon disc/belt sander to go from their goofy size dust ports to pvc pipe and back to my shop vac.

So much fun!!!

I am also going to be printing a complete drill index with fractions, numbered and lettered drill sizes to fit in my custom drill bit cabinet that I built.
 
7milesup said:
As you will find, the opportunities for making items to utilize in the shop are endless. I recently made an adapter to go from my biscuit joiner (which makes a huge amount of dust) directly to my Craftsman shop vac hose. Before, I had a cobbled up mess of some copper tube and hose clamps. Also made some adapters for my Rikon disc/belt sander to go from their goofy size dust ports to pvc pipe and back to my shop vac.

So much fun!!!

I am also going to be printing a complete drill index with fractions, numbered and lettered drill sizes to fit in my custom drill bit cabinet that I built.
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you said a mouthful there brother!
i'm having more fun finding reasons to design and print a project up.
plus it makes me looks busy (if i stand around for too long, i get a honey-doo as penance :grin big: )
 
Ulma Doctor said:
i had a chance to see a 3d printer, a little too close.
it captured my imagination, but thrust the spear of doubt upon my thoughts.
how can i 3d print something???
i have experience with motor controls and plc industrial thingy's- but i have no experience in g-code or co-ordinate multi-axis control.
that is where the doubt came in, how can i print something if i don't know the first thing about it???
i binge watched youtube on the ender 3, the brand i was going to run with.
i din't buy the pro , as recommended.
not for cost reasons alone, from what i understand you end up customizing just about everything anyway-
i'll spend the money on the better gear as i go :grin:
here is how it came

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here is a picture of the first print i ever made!
41 minutes!

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i plugged the thumb drive into my tower computer.
the creality 1.2.3 was loaded onto my computer
i loaded the stock rendering from the object file
and scaled it through the slicer
i saved the gcode to the sd card and went through the first warm up sequence and leveled the bed.
after the extruder came to temperature and the bed came to temperature,
i loaded the sliced gcode file with a twist and push of a knob.
the printer and software is incredibly easy to use and i feel like i missed out on a lot of stuff earlier,
due to my own ignorance .

i have a ton to learn, but i'm sure i'll get a whole bunch of use from this amazing tool!

thanks for reading!
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Man, that thumb came out amazingly realistic!
My wife wants one so I have been researching. I feel like a dual nozzle would be advantageous, she would like it to also laser engrave, but not a deal killer. I assume you did your homework and I respect your input. Any good reason you went with that one, were there others in the race.?I am really leaning towards Bibo3 I think it is. Pretty pricey...I think $700 but I'd be willing to do that for her since her luck has been so crap the last 8 months....
 
Don't know anything about that one but the laser is 500mw. That equals .5 watt. Seems like a gimmick to me. My friend has an 80 watt laser that he uses to etch glasses for his Amazon store. I believe he uses 65 watts or more to etch glass. Cutting wood in my opinion would need 10 watts minimum just for soft wood like balsa, etc. It is sort of like welding. You can cut stuff with a low power laser but it takes a lot of time, if it can be done at all. More time means more of a burnt area around the cut line.
Creality makes decent printers as many do. The one you posted has a glass heat bed. I personally hate them because it is a pain to get prints to stick sometimes. The ones like the Creality or Prusa with the PEI heat bed are the way to go IMHO.
This is truly a rabbit hole. If you want to engrave a little bit on something soft, like leather or similar, maybe that Bibo 3D will do it, but .5 watt is like trying to mill an engine block on and X2 mill.
 
I have no basis to argue your points 7miles, but I see plenty of videos on YT of people finished products with that half watt laser. I do want to do my motorcycle seat so leather is kind of a must. Things like glass/metal do take crazy amounts of power, but those handheld ones that pop ballons and light matches are PROBABLY super low power? Maybe the wavelength as well plays into this?
 
GunsOfNavarone said:
I have no basis to argue your points 7miles, but I see plenty of videos on YT of people finished products with that half watt laser. I do want to do my motorcycle seat so leather is kind of a must. Things like glass/metal do take crazy amounts of power, but those handheld ones that pop ballons and light matches are PROBABLY super low power? Maybe the wavelength as well plays into this?
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It sounds like you have done some research. I do admit that I do not know how low of power you can go and still get adequate results with a laser. I have seriously been considering building a laser, but I want something to cut wood and engrave metal so I am looking at a dedicated machine of 100+ watts. That is going to be a ways off though.
I have not looked at wavelength and how that might affect performance. I have too many irons in the fire....LOL.
 
GunsOfNavarone said:
Man, that thumb came out amazingly realistic!
My wife wants one so I have been researching. I feel like a dual nozzle would be advantageous, she would like it to also laser engrave, but not a deal killer. I assume you did your homework and I respect your input. Any good reason you went with that one, were there others in the race.?I am really leaning towards Bibo3 I think it is. Pretty pricey...I think $700 but I'd be willing to do that for her since her luck has been so crap the last 8 months....
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LOL, that's funny!
i did almost no homework at all. i watched as few videos and got too close to one- i was hooked and saw the same on ebay and grabbed it
if i were to do it again, i would have skipped the ender3 and went straight for the ender5
the Prusa seems to be the best bang for the $$$, but i have not had the pleasure of getting too close to one
 
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