What do you 3D print today?

[mdcerdan]

I had my 3d printer for about 3 weeks now and it absolutely blew my mind. Some stuff that takes me hours to make in the lathe or milling machine now seems so easy to make in the printer. Everyday items, useful stuff or even things I do not need but looks cool can be printed in a matter of minutes or a few hours. Control horns, servo trays, motor mounts, camera mounts are the few things I already printed and are flying.

This is what I 3D printed today

Wing servo mounts link

Servo tester case link

So what do you 3d printed today?

 

[Indy durtdigger]

Don't have any current pics but have been making tools for the builds and repairs. Got on tinker cad and made some various squares scaled for use on foam board. Been perusing Thingiverse looking for handy items as well. Have to decide which ones to try but a bevel cutter or 2 is in the near future. The control horns @SP0NZ has in the resources tab are the business. Just have to see how the PLA holds up when it gets hot this summer. I have a pretty strong feeling that the glue will soften before the PLA though.

 

[JasonK]

PLA firewalls and control horns did fine for me last summer. About the only heat issue I had was once time running an A-pack on 3S with a 6x4.5 prop in the middle of summer and running it hard... the motor was to hot to touch on landing and the firewall had got slightly soft.

 

[The Hangar]

I printed two of the @SP0NZ firewalls for the F7F Tigercat I’m building. I did end up having to drill out the mounting holes for bolting the motor directly to the firewall without the x mount. Thankfully the 3526 gforce motors use the same mounting pattern as the ft firewalls so I was able to use an extra wooden firewall as a template to mark where the holes needed to be drilled.

 

[whackflyer]

I printed two of the @SP0NZ firewalls for the F7F Tigercat I’m building. I did end up having to drill out the mounting holes for bolting the motor directly to the firewall without the x mount. Thankfully the 3526 gforce motors use the same mounting pattern as the ft firewalls so I was able to use an extra wooden firewall as a template to mark where the holes needed to be drilled.
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I use that firewall all the time.

 

[tamuct01]

I print tons of stuff for planes and drones including the planes themselves sometimes. Right now my printer is being hogged by a side gig making holders for flights of beer for a local coffee house/craft brew establishment. I'm almost done with those and should be getting back to the normal plane things shortly.

 

[sprzout]

Seeing the servo wing mounts reminds me that I need to print some out of PETG for my SoaringUSA Mini Eagle LRM that I inherited. I tried buying some balsa ones, but it’s amazing - I can’t find any that fit my particular servos online, and my hobby shop doesn’t stock stuff like that. 😔

 

[Robert S]

I was going to leave this on one of my wife's house plants but I love her too much to do that to her. (She is scared to death of Bees, wasps, hornets and anything that's looks like any of them.)

It turned out nice though. I discovered that Matter Control had a tool to transform certain pictures to 3D and for some reason, I thought a Asian Giant Hornet (aka Murder Hornet) would be something cool to try.

 

[Robert S]

Printing this at the moment: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3033273

Mine is going to be Yellow Pod and Black wings. Tomorrow, I will go over to Kinkos and have them LaserJet print graphics on some clear sticker laserjet paper I bought. I have bubblejet paper and could do it at home but the LaserJet stuff is better. The only problem is that I don't have a laserjet printer at home.

Graphics are going to be printed so that everything black is clear so that the black wing show's through. I might put a yellow Racing Stripe around one or both of the wings a couple of inches from the stabs. I made the graphics design in PowerPoint around a simple Hornet design I found in Google and then manipulated a bit.

 

[Michael9865]

Not aircraft related. I printed a geocache skull from Thingiverse, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3953771/files at 125% for my daughter’s birthday. It took my Ender 3 V2 90hours and 30 minutes to print. I used prusa slicer at .012 to make the G Code. It is ready to hit it with a blow dryer now that the supports are off. Then the painting of the patina will begin.

 

[mdcerdan]

Not aircraft related. I printed a geocache skull from Thingiverse, https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3953771/files at 125% for my daughter’s birthday. It took my Ender 3 V2 90hours and 30 minutes to print. I used prusa slicer at .012 to make the G Code. It is ready to hit it with a blow dryer now that the supports are off. Then the painting of the patina will begin.

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Awesome, what is the size of that thing?

 

[Michael9865]

Awesome, what is the size of that thing?

Since I printed it at 125% it ended up at about 7” high, 8” long, and 5 3/4” wide. Not easy to measure it, skulls are oddly shaped. LOL!

 

[mdcerdan]

Since I printed it at 125% it ended up at about 7” high, 8” long, and 5 3/4” wide. Not easy to measure it, skulls are oddly shaped. LOL!

Wow. 90.5hs print. My longest one was the glider fuselage, about 20hs in two parts.

 

[Ryan O.]

It's currently printing, and it's a part of a 1/64 Falcon Heavy. It's a 2 and a half day print to test my new Slice mosquito hotend setup. Next I'll be printing some ez pack motor mounts which I'll be trying at different settings (this is a 0.25 mm nozzle at 0.07 mm layer heights, next is at .1. After this I'll try .4 at .1 and .2 mm layer heights)

 

[Robert S]

I'll do the graphics after I maiden her this afternoon.

I used some new higher Temp and higher strength PLA+ for the body. My regular PLA was too fragile. The part where the motor connects kept breaking while trying to put everything together. I must have printed 4 or 5 bodies this week while trying different settings. This new stuff is way stronger and seemed to have fixed all previous issues. (eSUN PLA PRO (PLA+) 3D Printer , Yellow)

I also printed it at .1mm layers. That also seemed to make everything so much nicer in general.

 

[sundown57]

Made this for my daughter a few days ago. now im on to printing my third 1914 monoplane,

 

[Robert S]

I'll do the graphics after I maiden her this afternoon.

Houston, we had a problem (see attached pic). LOL! After I took a deep breath and forced myself to laugh a bit, I took it home and did a post-mortem.

I discovered I forgot to go into the Aura Configuration tool and configure it backwards. I had to spin the Aura 5 around opposite of the way it normally goes so that the servo connectors were towards the front so that they would fit under the higher part of the cover. I remember, when I spun it around, making a mental note to make sure I fixed it in the config tool but, apparently I either forgot or thought I had done it.

I took it home, totally took the entire plane apart and repaired it. I flew it again about two hours later and it was great. Not only was it faster than my first Arrow, because it was lighter and the shell provides lift, I felt like it could fly slower too.

When I got it home after the second flight, I noticed the motor was loose and then discovered case was cracked around the motor screws. I glued the crack, clamped it and then, glued the FT wood motor mount on. I used my Dremel to blend it in. This not only strengthens it but provides an insulator between the PLA and the hot motor.

 

[sundown57]

I just realized 3D planes look pretty much the same before you assemble them as they do when you crash them.

 

[Quinnyperks]

I just realized 3D planes look pretty much the same before you assemble them as they do when you crash them.

Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two pictures

 

[Robert S]

Next project has begun. I'm in a holding pattern until my new motor and ESC get here. This is going to be a bit heavier than the normal arrow so I didn't think my F pack motor was going to cut it anymore. I've got the same motor that the Spear uses on its way.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4017750