What to do with some left over filament?

by | Sep 9, 2014 | Design

Print a load of connection panels of course…. this was a good use of the 5m of PLA that is no good for anything else… I also started printing some test hexagons too with a little of the glow in the dark PLA I have left. Two panels together seem to hold...

PLA FTW

by | Sep 8, 2014 | Design

As suspected PLA is a far better bet for making the model, less chance of delamination with thin walls. A 1/4 scale panel is the max my printer can support, but just dropping this scale is not ideal as the panels is only two walls thick. It’s tricky to print...

Started printing some model parts on my 3D printer

by | Aug 30, 2014 | Design

I should have done this weeks ago really but I’ve been so busy. Now I wish I’d gotten on with it… 4 hours to print a 76mm wide pentagon!! Ouch. Most of this is due to the fact that I need to print the curved part with a 0.1 layer height, otherwise it...