What did you 3D print today?

[BrickHaus]

Trying one with threads now..

[BrickHaus]

No worries! It was tight because my printer over extruded due to bad retraction settings. My friend printed me the same grip on a creality K1, and it's perfect. I want to print one out of wood pla and sand/stain it.

[BrickHaus]

Man, that pr6 does look nice.

As for my pump. The brass insert pushes it too far away from the barrel and it JUST binds at the end of the pump stroke. I might tire plug the hole, and model an m5 printed threaded hole and get it closer to the barrel. I am just making these in petg though. I wish I could churn asa out.

[RAZRBAKK]

Damn these are some nice designs. Let me know how it goes on the Spitfire. My first thought when you said the pump handle was goofed was to swap it for an AirSolder PR6.

[BrickHaus]

Finally. Spent some time tightening up bits on both printers.

The petg printer (left) had a loose gantry. And my retraction had defaulted to a bad setting. It has been so long, I didn't remember what it took to make this head work. .4mm at 5mm/s. Seems wrong, but it's a clean print so far. I'm printing a modified mozak phantom pump handle. I took the design MozakMachine has here on cult 3d, and I moved the pump arm hole to the center below the barrel. It should (maybe?? ) work on my new to me spitfire, and tippmann SL 68s.. maybe another phantom clone with a 10-32 under cocking pump rod... I totally eyeballed it as I had to draw on his mesh file.

link to his awesome work here. https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadg...chine-products

Right printer had a dead cooling fan. Luckily I made that one plugged. So I swapped a new one out. I then put a new nozzle in. It was still printing like poo, so I put a new spool of filament into it that was dried to 30%. Printed a nice benchy with a little offset tuning and bumps of the bed springs.

Now I'm 9 hours into a 20 hour print. It looks good so far.....

[pghp8ntballer]

Honestly I am fantastically pleased with it. All of those pics are done with no name, chinesium/Amazon cheap filament. I have an FLSun V400, FLSun Super Racer, ender 3 V2, and Voxelab Aquila also. The FlSuns stock print really good… but the Bambu Lab A1 Mini still smokes them in quality. And it prints as fast as the V400. And the AMS Lite works great. And the full Mini/AMS combo was cheaper then I paid for the V400 on a lightning deal (it was $350 off!). My wife wasn’t interested I. Printing anything before. She is now interested and even sliced some stuff herself besides just printing directly from the Bambu App.

The best way I can describe this is like this; Bambu Lab put in the engineering time from fine tuning the machine with tech, including cost efficiency design, as well as ensuring the profiles are tuned to print great. And I mean that includes many different filament types, .2, .4, .6, .8 nozzle profiles, different beds, etc. The printing experience is wonderful. I haven’t been interested in the big Bambu machines because the beds aren’t big enough for what I want and I didn’t want to spend that much on what seemed like hype.

I understand the hype now. They are pumping out great machines and I can’t wait to see what else they do.

It isn’t perfect and still has the normal learning curves like dealing with bed adhesion… but this is dang close to a Cricut machine.

[BrickHaus]

I've been eyeballing the x1c. Mainly because my ender 3s are making me depressed lol, how is that bambu?

[Jackson]

That's my Thingiverse profile. Sorry it ended up too tight. I can make adjustments and upload a new version for you if you want it.

[pghp8ntballer]

Not today but in the last week… testing out the new printer. The Bambu Lab A1 Mini with AMS Lite.

[BrickHaus]

This fit tight on my cat, and forcing it on cracked it to death... ugh,9 ours gone. I dunno what my issue is, but I'll spend speckled parts of my free time trying to get it working.

I'm about ready to scrap both of my printers and buy a more modern one. My buddy bought a creality K1, and he is printing 10x faster than me with 100x less issues out of the box. I've struggled to print anything at 30mm/s since day one, and I've tossed upgrades at these things the whole time.

[BrickHaus]

I have a hero me on my other printer.it has served me well. Not sure it works with the Biqu H2 extruder I have on this one. All in all, I like the MAD better. It does require heat inserts, but it's a lot easier to assemble than my hero me.

[XEMON]

I've had very good results with the HeroMe
I'm not sure what rev they're on now ...

[BrickHaus]

Found a remixed duct for my aftermarket printer head assembly. It gives much more clearance from my print. Printing the clamping block for the above grip now with better part cooling.

[BrickHaus]

Finally got a part off my printer. Icd cat foregrip, not my design. It was on thingiverse. It makes a cat so comfy and can be used on other shooters like pro carbs.

it's not great, but I'll take it. Inland petg .2 layer height, no cooling. My duct kept snagging the print so I pulled the ducts and printed this. I think the lack of minor cooling caused the zitty over hangs, but they honestly add grip so it's no biggie. My friend made me the same handle on his creality K1. And it's much nicer.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5378165

Printing a new lower profile duct for my MAD now out of the same material. Hoping it doesn't clip prints. Then I'll print the clamp shoe for this grip.

[Brokeass_baller]

I like the texture on it though. I think Plasti-Dip would dull the texture.