My Adventures in 3D Printing

[King Jacob]

Seen a few folks print the silver greeblies in Bambu’s PLA silk and wanted to give it a try…

This stuff is ridiculous. While I need to tune some of the top layer settings, some of these could legit pass as machined aluminum, and they haven’t been sanded or anything. This is right off the printer!

Wait—that's insane! Am I mistaken or were the first two parts printed on a sort of off angle like one would with resin printing? Is that a factor in how this filament looks?

 

[greenmachines]

Been investigating 3D printing a full size R2 via Get more from Michael Baddeley on Patreon

Seen a few folks print the silver greeblies in Bambu’s PLA silk and wanted to give it a try…

This stuff is ridiculous. While I need to tune some of the top layer settings, some of these could legit pass as machined aluminum, and they haven’t been sanded or anything. This is right off the printer!

Sean

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That is truly nuts. I will be ordering this today.

 

[mrwax]

That looks much better than my attempts with silver silk, really impressive!

 

[TazMan2000]

Been investigating 3D printing a full size R2 via Get more from Michael Baddeley on Patreon

Seen a few folks print the silver greeblies in Bambu’s PLA silk and wanted to give it a try…

This stuff is ridiculous. While I need to tune some of the top layer settings, some of these could legit pass as machined aluminum, and they haven’t been sanded or anything. This is right off the printer!

Sean

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Did you print the long piece on an angle? Nice finish.

TazMan2000

 

[ID10T]

I’ve machined a lot of aluminum and that looks gorgeous. A lot of what I have machined never looked as good as that print!!!

 

[greenmachines]

I’ve machined a lot of aluminum and that looks gorgeous. A lot of what I have machined never looked as good as that print!!!

Same. Ditto and same. Those look like finished parts.

 

[PropReplicator2]

Been investigating 3D printing a full size R2 via Get more from Michael Baddeley on Patreon

Seen a few folks print the silver greeblies in Bambu’s PLA silk and wanted to give it a try…

This stuff is ridiculous. While I need to tune some of the top layer settings, some of these could legit pass as machined aluminum, and they haven’t been sanded or anything. This is right off the printer!

Sean

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I have been seeing this stuff all over the Mr. Baddeley and the r2 builders facebook pages recently. This filament is nuts!

 

[yaris]

Holy Monkey THAT is amazing....

 

[joberg]

Holy Monkey THAT is amazing....

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Yep, I looked at it without reading the comments and I thought this was brushed aluminium

 

[masterjedi322]

Wait—that's insane! Am I mistaken or were the first two parts printed on a sort of off angle like one would with resin printing? Is that a factor in how this filament looks?

Did you print the long piece on an angle? Nice finish.

TazMan2000

Yes, Mr. B is very knowledgeable in 3D printing so he’s recently reoriented the parts at an angle with built-in supports. With curved surfaces, printing at an angle helps reduce the print lines.

Sean