Dude!Just FYI, I use a dremel and off cuts of filament, to plastic weld my pieces for an extremely strong bond. plus i can fill in small gaps, etc with it.
Dude!
I had to look up this Dremel technique, you just saved me a 14 hour reprint.
I had a part that failed halfway, so thought to cut the model and just print the other half. I got lucky in that I hit it right and the parts married up just right. But i couldn't really glue it as there were no decent edges, used this technique round the seam on the inside, worked perfectly.
That auto 9 is awesome, it's hard to see that its not a real gun. I may have a go at it myself, you can't have too many autos!
Loving these Robo print builds, good work guys.
I'm not quite sure how this technique works. Can you elaborate? (Sorry i'm Dutch)
That Auto 9 is top notch! I'm enjoying your build so far. keep posting
I tested it yesterday and I'm not really impressed by it either.This is one heck of an undertaking for 3D printing, good luck. It looks great so far! I'm curious to see how the friction welding holds up, I tried it once but couldn't quite manage to get it to work, I think my wall thickness was too thin.
Hi. I'm running the London marathon in a couple of weeks in this very same suit that I've been printing for a couple of weeks. I needed a very strong way to bond the pla pieces together so the suit doesn't fall apart over 26 miles of running. What I've done is get one of those cheapo 3D printer pens from Amazon for like 20 bucks. I then hold the parts together with tape and 'draw' the join in using the pen. As I use the same PLA as the main suit it practically welds the parts together and also colour matches. For added strength I'm gonna use a single layer of woven fibreglass inside but that's just a belt and braces approach for what I'm using the suit for. You can just get away with the 3d pen. The other benefits are you can use any spare lengths of pla filament and it's also pretty instant unlike glues. CA glue just didn't hold for me. Hope this helps.
Hi. I'm running the London marathon in a couple of weeks in this very same suit that I've been printing for a couple of weeks. I needed a very strong way to bond the pla pieces together so the suit doesn't fall apart over 26 miles of running. What I've done is get one of those cheapo 3D printer pens from Amazon for like 20 bucks. I then hold the parts together with tape and 'draw' the join in using the pen. As I use the same PLA as the main suit it practically welds the parts together and also colour matches. For added strength I'm gonna use a single layer of woven fibreglass inside but that's just a belt and braces approach for what I'm using the suit for. You can just get away with the 3d pen. The other benefits are you can use any spare lengths of pla filament and it's also pretty instant unlike glues. CA glue just didn't hold for me. Hope this helps.