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Right got the photo problem sorted and worked out the spaceing / length the track pads need to be in order to get the holes in the chain links to line up so I could get them all pinned together, ended up useing 30 of them to go around the track frame, a wee bit light sanding and some grey paint on the inside and a splash of silver should smarten them up a bit, I also discovered how to properly produce accurate wheels which opened up a whole new area for me in 3D CADing, So I tried my hand at making discs proper concave ones turned out really well, All printed in Carbon filament on PLA settings 200c nozzle 60c heated bed.
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Joe.
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200 and bed at 60 that's in Cura on the Ender 3 pro, just printed 12 crawler track pads came out fantastic, I've lost my Paintshop pro, so might have problems loading photo's I'll look into that tomorrow, ??
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2 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:
they did say its was better than the origonal, but never mentioned a silent one, made a huge difference, although now i cant tell if its stopped or anything 😆😆😆😆where as before i could hear it downstairs, which surprised me, in turn it does make me wonder if something was up from day one, currently got the final trailer print running, this time on brim, just coming down slowly to nothing, mainly due to some small parts , and its bob on, no lift or anything ,with nothing altered on the file, bed feels hot all over, nice and equal, where as i did notice a few cooler spots than others in places
Must have been a Friday afternoon machine, I've fairly recently started useing Carbon fibre filament it is fantastic stuff slightly stronger than normal filament and it is always very smooth finish and matt finish really nice stuff and similar price to standard PLA and prints at same settings as generic PLA. I'm currently useing it to make track pads for the Schuco Stalinets crawler I bought a few years ago.
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I reckon they've sent you an upgraded board as well, seeing as it is now running quieter, Loads of guy's out there buy brand new machines and swap out the motherboard so as they run quiet, ??
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That is looking good, who'd 'ave thunk it was the the electronic gubbins that was at fault, happy printing Sean.
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Looking good that Paul,
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50 minutes ago, Tractorman810 said:
new motherboard fitted today, had to take several pics as theres a lot of plugs underneath it 😆😆 new software downloaded and in, turns it on,30 seconds later, all is back ,so reset all the bed from all the movement and de construction on it all, and first test prints off, and looking good, beginning to think i may have had a duff board from day one mind, as its so much quieter now, almost silent bar the fans?? know its a couple of gens up from the original, but even so, the motors on the axis drives are silent now .
The ultimate test Sean, try a print without useing a raft as you really should not need one unless the bottom of your print is not flat, you can easily get "silent" fan motors as well, just checkout E-bay for silent 3D fans plenty of them around and fairly cheap just make sure you get the correct voltage.
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16 minutes ago, robbo said:
Understatement of the week, a smidge? Just unfortunate that I haven't got a trailer he would fill that if he could. Having said that, I remember seeing Brian's car packed to the roof
There you go Mike, not sure of the year mind, Brian's car
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Never realised you were useing stainless it was the rubber caught my eye, I've tried various types of black paint, and black Plasti Dip is the only thing I have found the actually looks like real rubber when applied.
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Don't know if this might interest you Paul but there is a nice range of aerosol spray paint that is actually Latex rubber great on model tyres but I think that would finish off your light pod's nicely,.
https://www.plastidip.co.uk/product/aerosol-spray
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18 minutes ago, trigger82 said:
Theres a video of it as well, But the first 30 minutes is just count down, ??????, Whiz it up to 30 minutes to get the start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nO3LPw_Ecg
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The Wiking model Paul, That's why I put it in the Wiking 2022 section,??
http://www.gandmfarmmodels.co.uk/
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Joe.
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Surprised to see these new Trion Montana's are available in the UK now, ??
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13 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:
got a reply from creality, with new firmware to install, and guess what, its made it worse😆😆😆😆 had a real bad technology day today,even my work laptop went and threw a wobbly today
Oh heck, out of the frying pan into the fire, I hope you get it sorted soon, Ide be lost without my machine these day's
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21 hours ago, Tractorman810 said:
its not the card, have checked that moving various files between laptops and stuff, the printer sees it every time you put it in so the reader is ok i suspect as well , sees both in-fact, it happily lets you pick files of the cards and everything , and starts them as far as heating up then stops at the same point .thats with my origonal files all worked before , 2 small test ones,,simple 20 min boxes and all the files that came with it as test prints like the boat, cat ect , which i have not messed with. just tried again, with a 3rd sd card and a memory stick via the micro usb point, same ,gets hot then stops, just noticed that the pause print option has gone now as well now on the main screen options, its just stop print as the only option, yesterday pause was there, even though i could not resume it as before , seems to be pointing towards a software issue with the printer its self rather than my stuff. rang the seller today and got told i have to wait for the support team to email me back, to which nothings happened ,so they will get to wednesday then i will have to ring back .
Don't know why I never thought of this before, But Creality have their own forum, Either them or someone on the forum should be able to help,??
https://forum.creality.com/category/35/creality-ender-series
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Joe.
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Theres another version of the Trion comeing soon, A Montana tilting one this time.
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Strange one that Sean, Maybe the UK 3D print guy's will come up with something, Mystery to me ,???
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Just to try and see, if you can print useing a USB cable that might shed some light, If it does print by the USB then it must be a problem with either the SD card or the card reader, I never use my SD I always use my SUB, unless it's a long print and I need to go out then I'd transfer the print onto the card.
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Bigger bugger, I noticed the other day someone ask the same question on 3D printing UK, I was going to share that with you but only noticed now you are the auther of that question, Hope you get it resolved soon,
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There's no mention anywhere of it closeing Paul, And I found a photo to looks like it is just a single piece of plastic,
https://www.carpet-farmer.com/product/marge-models-1-32-meiller-tipping-trailer/
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If memory serves I think Barry has a collection of Stotz coloured tractors, Theres a new one comeing from FM-Modellbau, Can't see anything about it on their web site,
And not much about it on their Facebook page either, There will also be a Bollmer coloured green version,
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There's a group on Facebook 3D Printing UK, you've probably seen them at some time, A lot of knowlageable guys on there, And quite a few who aren't, The guy's that know the score reckon if you HAVE to use raft's then there is something not quite right either in your slicer or printer set up, But it's your printer and your prints if it works for you then I'de just keep going,PS what speed do you print at, I have mine set at 50mms but reduce that to 15 for flexible.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/669068986490743
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Joe.
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Cheers Sean very different from the system I use, I would have printed each piece individually, Do you get them off the raft easy enough, I've only ever used a raft if the base of a print hasn't been 100% level, And regularly don't bother with any build plate adhesion at all, but that does depend quite a bit on which type of filament I'm useing, The curves at the bottom of the cab frame have come out well hardly any stringing at all, well impressed.
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Nice Sean I like that, yep the shape of the top of the canvas cab would be difficult to sketch up in CAD, You made a good job of that, Be good to see it when you get it finished.
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Yes the track pads are all seperate links fortunately I have a spare 1/50th scale track pad I had from a dozer kit I build years ago and worked from that, as for wheels they are incredibly easy to do as are tyres all you dois create a flat template with the exact profile like a dished Massey rear create a fulcrum and pull it through 360, I did do a few screen grabs for you but shut the programme down without saveing them, Rummage / Google how to rotate sketch's through 360 and that should sort you out, When doing that wheel / tyre to show you I though might as well try and put some tread on it, Wheels tyres easy tread onto tyre nightmare very tricky, But I had a go and whilst it's far from good and I'm chuffed as all the solutions came from me,
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Joe