Posts made by Rion Motley

@Enrico-Bermudez PLA has a very wide glass transition temperature range. Sitting on a car dashboard, parts will sag and conform to said dashboard. It doesn't flow well until up to extruder temperatures, but treat it a bit like a candy bar. Won't melt in your pocket though...

@Milan-Vuckovic 1500-ish, shipped. It's a kit, but goes together really quickly. Took two afternoons. Notes: the screws that hold the table down to the Y-carriage need to be torqued well, and I'd suggest loctite. Also, get a set of feeler gauges for leveling the bed.

@Al I'll print one tonight! Been out of the loop. We're implementing the Omega on a drone we're developing. Has been a crazy 2-3 months! One other note - if you're using ABS, you can brush a two-or-more-perimeter part with acetone on a cotton swab and it tends to stitch the layers together. Our motor pylons on the prototype are actually single-perimeter parts with only 10% infill, and they hold over half a pound of thrust in compression, and quite a bit of vibration in shear.

Right now i'm trying to get my wifi fixed, since I can connect to the Omega (Diogenes) but he's not talking to my router for pass-through internet connectivity. Which is slightly dodgy. Oh well. At least the AP works (Synope).

Check wikipedia for Diogenes of Synope if you want to know the cool reason why I named him this.

Hey, just some minor heads ups from a fellow FDM printerator.

1. Yeah the little claspy snappy things don't work very well when printed in this orientation. If you want to do those, it's best to print them on their side, as a separate thing to snap in.

2. Same thing on the clippy snappy tabs on the side of the box - like you said, probably not needed, but if you want to do something like that, create a recess and make it a separate part, and print the part flat, then glue it into the recess with some acetone, and the flex goes along the "grain" of the print layers, so it doesn't just snap itself off.

Really neat little case, thanks for tossing it together!

What kinda printer do you have? I've got a Bukobot V2 Duo from Deezmaker. I might try this in my glow filament that's on its way.