3D printed covered hoppers

James A. doty Mar 21, 2024

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    That's good to know. I normally would run my resin through a funnel with a strainer after finishing prints for a day then clean everything up. It's hard to find time to do all that after print jobs during the week, so I had mostly been doing my resin printing on weekends and days off. I should check on a lid for my tank. I can design a lid in AutoCAD and print it in TPU, but my upgraded Prusa MK3.9 won't print, it fails at the nozzle cleaning stage. I'm trying to work with Prusa tech support on this, I really need my Prusa working again.
     
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    I bought multiple magnetic build plates so I can swap plates and keep on printing. I should check to see what the vats for my printer cost, I bet they're not cheap.
     
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    I love flexible magnetically attached build plates. I printed three figurines for D&D last night and all I had to do to separate them from the build plate was to flex the build plate, they all popped right off.

    With my disability I was really struggling with getting parts off the build plate of my Anycubic Photon when I first got it. I then saw something about magnetic flexible build plates so I bought one. I had to 3D print a flag spacer for my Photon to get it to work, but it worked great.

    I didn't have to do anything fancy with my new Elegoo printer since the build plate on it is adjustable up and down as well as leveling.
     
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    Looks as good if not better than the commercial T-Gauge rolling stock.
     
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    Thank you. I don't know yet though, I ordered some rolling stock and it hasn't arrived yet, probably next week. I am happy with the print quality though.

    I drew up a rough representation of my house in AutoCAD a bit ago, I'll try printing it tomorrow. I didn't throw in a bunch of detail, it wouldn't be visible anyway.
     

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