What did you 3D print today?

[pghp8ntballer]

Awesome! Not including the cost of filament, what was the build cost? Or did you already have the optics and hardware on hand? Is that a standard camera tripod that was modified or is it a universal telescope tripod?

[RAZRBAKK]

Wow, that is awesome.

[Jackson]

Got the telescope mostly together. Still a number of items on the list, but together enough to start looking at the sky. Grabbed a really crappy picture of Jupiter and its moons with my phone. It was way clearer by eye. You could see red bands on Jupiter.

[pghp8ntballer]

Cool. I grew up in Shaler but I live in the Plum/lower Burrell area now

[Alexndl]

Brass work was done by Jordan from a PMI 1 and a PGP.
3d printed the pump handle, both bolt and the double cram and jam

[Spider!]

Lol, I thought I recognized the parts, just couldn't remember.

[Jackson]

Wexford. I've got one more big +6 hour print left and a number of smaller items.

[pghp8ntballer]

Very cool. I’d love to see the finished telescope! So uh, where abouts in Pittsburgh do you live?

[Jackson]

Some pieces I've been printing over the past week.

[superman]

[Brokeass_baller]

Gotcha. That's what I thought, but I thought I should verify. Lol

[RAZRBAKK]

Brokeass_baller I believe he means pulling it Into the breech. The barrel is sized to stop the freak moving forward in the barrel.

[Brokeass_baller]

The way I understand things is there's enough room in front of the bolt with A5 threads that's it's not an issue. But for 98 threads, it'll catch if there isn't a gap.

Edit: wait, do you mean pull out the front of the barrel? Or get stuck in the bolt o-ring and pull out the back and into the breach?

[RAZRBAKK]

Toestr, hmm, hadn't considered that. I haven't fired it yet. Will have to mess around and see what I can do about that.

EDIT: Upon further inspection, no. Seems like the insert is large enough to catch on the edge of the breech. With the barrel in and the bolt cocked I'm not able to push it into the breech.

[Toestr]

Won't the bolt pull the insert out the back?