Surveying Christmas ornaments

norm-larson · 2013-09-06T05:35:00Z

I know that I am posting too much 3D printing and I will stop soon, promise:-D . I did get the idea to take my very detailed 1/4 scale digital models and print them in a cheaper plastic for Christmas ornaments. Something to do during football ... What I found is that the cheaper plastic is roughly 1/3 the cost of the detail prints. I have printed enough to know what will be lost, the screw heads will be melted together and you won't see the place for the screw driver anymore. That level of detail will not print with a laser sintered plastic. Sintered plastic requires a much larger gap for parts to remain separate after printing and those gaps are just too big. Nothing on these prints will move. I had to thicken here and there just to make them printable. I am thinking that they will actually look good and certainly good enough to hang on a tree, LOL. Of course I will have to order a set to find out.No matter what color I order in the laser sintered plastic in, it is printed in pure nylon and then dyed the selected color. I have found that the pure white nylon just absorbs all of the contrast with its "whiteness" and I am thinking that I will order them in a color. I hate the feeling of pure sintered plastic in my fingers and the dyed plastic for the most part is polished (except black) and loses that feeling.The HDS 6200 is 5.1" high to top of hanger, T3 is 4.2" to top of hanger and the Geod 600 is 4.5". The volume of the HDS6200 makes it by far the most expensive to print too (almost twice the T3). We will see how the wife takes to instruments hanging from her tree. She accepted the Ariel Atom's I printed last year...and I hate the cantilever hook too, much to late right now to create something different

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I used dye I bought a JoAnn fabrics Jaquardi iDye specifically since it is acrylic. I used their orange and black and just ordered the parts as bright white unpolished. https://surveyorconnect.com/index.php?mode=thread&id=227217 I dipped them in acrylic sealer when I was done.

The 1/4 scale robot is really cool in person, I don't have my Model 6 yet. If you haven't seen the other threads they may help a little
https://surveyorconnect.com/index.php?mode=thread&id=227217 br> https://surveyorconnect.com/index.php?mode=thread&id=232161#p232326
https://surveyorconnect.com/index.php?mode=thread&id=230483#p232616