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Making a halo-lit dimensional sign with a 3D printer
Having been experimenting with 3d printing recently, I thought I would post some pictures showing the results of my efforts.
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Another one I made earlier
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Very nice Phil, now that I’m retired my interest has moved away from signwork and toward 3D printing, I’ve been looking at printers for months and just when I decided what to buy a new model appeared so I’m waiting now to find out if the new model is much better.
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Phil how do these work out cost wise instead of buying the acrylic
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It’s obviously a lot cheaper to make your own as your only paying for the materials. But 3d printing is very slow and time consuming so these are not quick to produce. Having said that you can go and do something else whilst the printer is slowly making each letter shell. But I guess the point is you can make any shape with a 3d printer and so are not limited to the range of standard font styles available as moulded acrylic letters.
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Now that is very interesting Phil! Looks great
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The end of the acrylic built-up letter maker then? Another hard to learn skill consigned to the dustbin of history…
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Interesting, whats the largest letter you can make?
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The print bed measures 150mm x 150mm but in practice you can go bigger by making a series of sections to make up the letter. This is how I made the @ which measures 270mm x 270mm
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Interesting use Phill.
How are you finding your printer?
I bought one to get my son making things but the nozzle keeps having trouble with ABS blocking it. Might just be the ABS is variable quality, we’ve not tried PLA much.Steve
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I use PLA filament with the extruder temp. set at 215C and have never had any problems with the nozzle blocking. I did find my models weren’t sticking well to the print bed and would warp and seperate from the bed during printing, but discovered that setting the print bed temp. up to 100C stopped this from happening
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That’s quite a high bed temp for PLA but as I said we’ve not done much. We’ve had the bed temp at 100 for ABS and the head at 245.
I’ll clean this nozzle and try some new ABS or maybe the PLA.Steve
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