If you want to really check the layer quality and alignment, you have to use dark colour under light. White and light colours hide imperfections.

Thirsty Hippo (specifically) utilised Calcium Chloride... mildly hazardous....

MSDS:
http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9923251

Thanks.

As long as it between my eyesight is good, no complain.

I know will never achieve the plastic injection smooth.

Nobody touches it.
People usually just throw away after fully saturated with water so this shouldn't be an issue.

Hi guys, may I ask any recommendation for a beginner to get a 3D printer budget below 1k? or anyone to recommend to buy from, or a model name would be good, I'll go search for more info... thanks!!

This is further upgrade for the Filament dry box. Previous post is here -> https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=88173677

Take a long time to arrived the hygrometer.



Cut a hole at the container side.


Silicon to seal the display and place the sensor in the middle.


Done. It been run for a month. The dry box seal pretty good and stay dry never higher than 10%. The silica gel still stay in pink never change color at all.

There are 3D printer below RM 1k but you'll have to do your own setup which will take hours.

Can try simple ones like this https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r....bucket=5#detail

how is your tinkering skills? below 1k actually, not much options but DIY KITs from taobao , if you are not good at tinkering, i highly suggest that you double up your budget and get pre-assembled machines.

Names:Creality/Tevo/Anycubic/Tronxy

Many relatively advance ones...mostly (minimal requirement) assembled 3d printers at around RM1.3k to 1.5k ... from Gearbest

Thanks for the suggestion guys...i got no knowledge of tinkering haha gotta learn alot, maybe i'll get a pre assembled one, Anycubic I3 Mega.

Waaa.. 3D printer price has drop a lot.

I am thinking of getting the tivo tornado, taobao sale now at around rm1k excluding transport.
Can print 30x30x40cm, very big liao I think.

https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z0d....id=558542427402

No more wood working ah ?

Better check pros and cons.

Many such printer cut cost and simplify till not stable and study enough.

Wood working still ongoing, plastic can't beat wood when making bigger things. some small parts too hard to do with wood so a 3d printer would help a lot.
The price is a factor too. Didn't know its so cheap now.

The tornado, from youtube reviews seem very good for the price. All metal joins.

This post has been edited by yushin: Jun 2 2018, 04:30 PM

I've the Tevo tornado...comes with two pieces PEI like surfaces materials for the heated bed...these surfaces however bubble-up & deform after subjecting it to 125C for a week or 2, which makes adhering the first layer problematic......you may want to purchase a glass surface instead if you intend to use high temp filaments....The main base of the heated bed appears to be fiberglass-like material some 5-6mm thick....

Also Tevo Tornado utilise a 700W silicone heatpad and is able to hit 130C in around 2 minutes.... powered directly off the AC power through a relay

Speaking of which I may pick-up my 5th 3d printer, Creality's Ender 3.....

This post has been edited by BeastX: Jun 2 2018, 06:23 PM

Not that easy for 3d print.

Need to learn some troubleshoot for the printer. Sometime you don't no what's wrong.

Than the material. Damn alot of plastic material characteristic. But it come down to 2-3 type use more.

Got to learn some 3d design. And plastic design. Need a lot of reinforce here and there.

Got to consider weight in price and quality ratio.

I m using cr10s. So far so good. But construction quality is so so. Not that study enough. I plan to modify it. But than the source is close.

I haven't try to print that high temp. Max so far 60°c for the bed. The bed come with glass. But have some defect. I change to Ikea mirror. Max for CR10s bed is 100°c. It using DC heater which is slower to heat up.

I m preparing to print ABS. But before that need to do some casing, heater and controller to control the environment temp.

creality has recently (in April) release the firmware to the community...

The current firmware have some bugs.

Any reliable and good 3D printer that you guys can recommend ? I mean ready to use out of the box type.

Thx

This post has been edited by ekestima: Jul 24 2018, 01:34 PM

ender 3. out of the box prints really well.

btw, does anyone know where i can recycle pla? PLA should be compostable, trying to avoid throwing those support materials/ failed prototypes away.

This post has been edited by layzieboy: Aug 21 2018, 09:47 AM