Random stuff you have made

[DavidMcmillan]

That 3D technology is very interesting, and I’m glad to see students getting interested as well as adults. A couple of years ago, we were in Muskogee to see a book signing that a friend of ours was having. Walking around, I found a 3D lab with four or five machines. I was told they had started having classes, with good attendance. Thank you for showing what individuals can do with this.

 

[264killer]

Clearing willows, cedars, ETC off of pond damn. Komatsu is one of my favorite toys

 

[Jason Freeland]

That 3D technology is very interesting, and I’m glad to see students getting interested as well as adults. A couple of years ago, we were in Muskogee to see a book signing that a friend of ours was having. Walking around, I found a 3D lab with four or five machines. I was told they had started having classes, with good attendance. Thank you for showing what individuals can do with this.

My wife is the Librarian and part of the technology education department at Casady and they have had 3D printing in the Libraries for years. Basically when my father just up and bought me one I had said was cool about 7 years ago, they got interested too. Now they integrate 3d drafting into their classes, including math (Geometry). The students get to design and see their projects printed at the school. They even will design famous buildings in history and print those too. I'm grateful we get a discount big enough to send our own kids there, to get to experience education like this.

 

[Jason Freeland]

Here is the finished product on the rainbow dragon, came out rather nicely.

 

[Perplexed]

Speaking of 3D printing; my gf’s daughter is using a 3D printer with resin instead of filament. Those printers (called SLA/DLP) generally can print in much finer detail than filament machines, though print jobs tend to be smaller and take a lot longer to print. The layers are much thinner - 10 to 100 microns each, as opposed to 0.1 to 0.5 mm for filament. Resin print jobs are more expensive though, and require more maintenance and ventilation. Resin print jobs also require more post-production work. She made this D&D-ish figurine, fresh off the printer with no PP work done yet. It is about 2” tall, and the job took 13 hours to print:

 

[Jason Freeland]

Speaking of 3D printing; my gf’s daughter is using a 3D printer with resin instead of filament. Those printers (called SLA/DLP) generally can print in much finer detail than filament machines, though print jobs tend to be smaller and take a lot longer to print. The layers are much thinner - 10 to 100 microns each, as opposed to 0.1 to 0.5 mm for filament. Resin print jobs are more expensive though, and require more maintenance and ventilation. Resin print jobs also require more pos-production work. She made this D&D-ish figurine, fresh off the printer with no PP work done yet. It is about 2” tall, and the job took 13 hours to print:

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I haven't played with a resin printer yet and don't really expect to for a while, but you can't beat them for miniatures.

 

[reade]

I made precision spinning tops. Some have spun over 30 minutes using just a finger snap. Sold them all over the world too but very few in Oklahoma. Tungsten over magnesium. That’s an industrial ruby as the bearing.

 

[BillM]

I made a set of new ways for the bed & carriage of my new-to-me Unimat SL 1000. The original way bars were pretty rusty, and pitted under the rust.

The new ways are 8mm & 12mm linear guide rails, hardened and chromed. Had to cut through the chrome with carbide tooling to get to the hardened tool steel underneath. That chrome plating laughed at my sharpened HSS tooling.

The bed ways need to be shortened, since I don't intend to do woodworking on it. Just remembered seeing some others with the longer ways, and hadn't done the research yet to figure out if I needed them longer than stock. Turns out that longer ways were used either for woodworking versions of the lathe, originally, or for CNC conversions more recently. I won't be doing either on anytime soon.

I have wanted one of these things for at least 50 years. Plan on using it to make pins and things for one of my other hobbies. Might help me in refurbishing the South Bend Heavy 10L I have, as well. It's certainly easier to move around and work on.

Bill

 

[Bocephus123]

I made precision spinning tops. Some have spun over 30 minutes using just a finger snap. Sold them all over the world too but very few in Oklahoma. Tungsten over magnesium. That’s an industrial ruby as the bearing.

Awesome

 

[DRC458]

Here is the finished product on the rainbow dragon, came out rather nicely.

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What size is the dragon?