Voron kit will be here tomorrow, and I will begin assembly (on my stream). I will not ship a single thing out until it’s “mud worthy”, so give me a week or two to learn the Voron/BiG ABS and run some live tests.
Twitch.tv/baothebuilder to check my progress, i enabled VODs yesterday that you can skim through and watch at your own convenience.
Also, my KEENE VILLAGE shipment is here (most are at warehouse as I have limited space). We are well stocked on ABS and Polycarbonate now, as well as various other filaments.
I also am working on another way to raise funding for more machines (I have a lot of filament to work through and a ton of interests for prints); my fleet can barely keep up with just gifts! I’m Santa every week basically with these machines and all this filament. I make gifts to learn (and to make gifts), let me know if you’d like a gift from me! Donations for shipping appreciated but it wouldn’t be a gift if I charged.
Seriously I’d be happy to send you guys one on me; Maybe we can even talk custom vases once I get a little better. Here are some examples, I highly recommend the PETG and eventually ABS, but for indoor PLA will work. Difference is PETG has a chance of surviving a drop, whereas PLA is likely to crack and shatter unless much more thick (like ceramic but less dramatic shattering).
For those who are new to 3D printed products, here is your chance to get a free sample. You want to see how strong PETG is? I’ll send you a PETG vase or little drawer or a shelf bracket/desktop sized cityscape or something. Maybe hub caps for your car?
Gifts are limited to 150 mm vases or similar items in terms of material cost/print time. You can make a donation if you want something bigger to help me pay my monthly shipping bills!
So here is a heads up of the process for choosing a gift from me (similar to ordering), and if you are happy with gift quality we can talk about prices after; it will be the literal best prices for my extended fam. I don’t imagine anything costing mud more than $20 plus shipping, even for the bigger sized vases (400 mm tall up to 300mm wide, use rainbow Buddha in photo for reference). It’s all about print time, material cost and shipping costs that determines my prices for mud.
Anyways:
1. Choose a model by searching Google for “Model STL”: Stl is file format for 3D printers. For gifts pick anything you want, for things you want to buy to resell/use for commercial reasons, make sure it comes with proper license. Example: “Toyota Wheel Cap STL” or “Harry Potter STL” or “Vehicle Switchbox STL” etc. It’s a world of infinite possibilities. One good place is myminifactory.com and use the filter “prints without support” or “1-click printing” on left, I forget name. You can even filter by license types to find out if I can sell to you or can only make for you as gift.
Refer to above posts for 3D scanning with your phone if you need a part made that you can’t find a file/model for, just scan one and send to me. For example, scan your cigarette tray and your switchbox/individual buttons, and I’ll use that to send you a new cigarette tray that is a custom switchbox. If 08-15 lx then I can pull from my own vehicle to scan.
2. Choose material, refer to above posts for examples of what I can get: all artillery, KVP (Owns Makeshaper), geeetech for now with more manufacturers later.
3. Choose a color.
PLA has the most options including many special effects and hybrid mix as it is the easiest to mix with other materials like wood and metal (including carbon fiber).
PETG and ABS also have many color options. Last blue and pink vases are PETG btw it can look almost as good as PLA if printed right. ABS can look as good as PLA after acetone vapor bath, and can sit in your car / by hot window and never melt.
TPU is the most affordable of the few types of flexible filament, but with most color options. On the higher end of flexible is Nylon (nylon CF will be one of my favorites, as well as nylon PCTPE).
So again, choose model, material then color. Google “MODEL NAME STL” in images tab to search. Normal search tab works too, but I like the bigger picture/larger preview from Google images search.
-Sharpe
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