3D Printing thread

BoomCorals · Nov 17, 2018

I printed a couple flow accelerators at work!

So far I'm pretty happy with them.

madox · Nov 17, 2018

BoomCorals said:
I printed a couple flow accelerators at work!

So far I'm pretty happy with them.

STL for this?

BoomCorals · Nov 17, 2018

madox said:
STL for this?

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1784377

siggy · Nov 18, 2018

garbled said:
When I got into printing, I was sure I was going to print all the things in ABS. In reality, I haven't found a need to actually even try ABS yet. I *really* recommend PETG for things where you thought you wanted ABS. I've made PETG test parts, and then left them outside in Arizona sun on a black steel surface and they haven't warped at all.

Also, just a small pitch here, but watch a bunch of videos about "removing your part from the build plate". I have an AnyCubic, with an Ultrabase. The difference here is that, I don't put any goo or glue or magic plates on my bed, I just gently lift the parts off it like magic. I sometimes watch these videos and am very thankful that I picked the ultrabase.

I ended up with a Prusa MK3 that I found used locally after a couple of tries online, its was missing the selector knob. All the parts files are on the prusa site and it calls for PTEG. Looking at the printer construction thats going to be my goto for material unless its toys or prototype.
the ultra Base sounds like magic.

Erica-Renee · Nov 18, 2018

3d printing screws and Nuts..

What is your best easiest and Fail prof methods.. I have tried a few things that work but I feel as thou i am missing something.

Method one .
Once the part id modeled open the screw separately in CURA and scale it down to .997 -995 of the original side on the y and x axis

Method two..

Inside fusion 360
Model the part as a separate component (this seems most reliable with the female part. Edit the thread feature and set a offset of 1.01 (this is what i have tried and seems to work)

the above is working with a 6mm thread ...

thanks in advance for your thoughts..

So with the above fixed here is my first Aquarium Part print.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3225468

Metasyntactic · Nov 19, 2018

Not an aquarium thing but I printed this at work for my bf's birthday. Did it in steel with a DLMS printer.

Jlahr16 · Nov 20, 2018

Looking for someone who is willing to design/print something, willing to pay of course (if this is allowed here?) If not please disregard this.

I am looking for a round light "shade" to slide over my Kessil H80 refugium light to shield/block the light from spreading into other sump compartments. Similar to the shape/style of the anemone guards or of the floating Circle coral viewers but with the clear part of the viewer to sit on top of the kessil (does not have to be fully enclosed on top - to allow the heatsink to do its job as well as access the control knobs). I apologize for having a hard time explaining what I am envisioning.

Erica-Renee · Nov 20, 2018

Jlahr16 said:
Looking for someone who is willing to design/print something, willing to pay of course (if this is allowed here?) If not please disregard this.

I am looking for a round light "shade" to slide over my Kessil H80 refugium light to shield/block the light from spreading into other sump compartments. Similar to the shape/style of the anemone guards or of the floating Circle coral viewers but with the clear part of the viewer to sit on top of the kessil (does not have to be fully enclosed on top - to allow the heatsink to do its job as well as access the control knobs). I apologize for having a hard time explaining what I am envisioning.

This would be a simple part.. Can you draw a rough sketch of the shape you want . and would need EXACT dimensions of the light for someone to do this ..

garbled · Nov 24, 2018

2 more quick objects:

these

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3236233

and this bracket: (Ruby Elite 36 sump)

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3236243

b4tn · Dec 15, 2018

I need to give my wife an amazon link today. She will only order from amazon lol. The A10 is no longer available is this one still good for a starter

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GYRQVYV/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_w4sfCb16KY2MC

BlakeFL · Dec 15, 2018

b4tn said:
I need to give my wife an amazon link today. She will only order from amazon lol. The A10 is no longer available is this one still good for a starter
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GYRQVYV/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_w4sfCb16KY2MC

Nice! That is the same one I was looking at but will probably order from the official Aliexpress store to save a little money.

Erica-Renee · Dec 15, 2018

b4tn said:
I need to give my wife an amazon link today. She will only order from amazon lol. The A10 is no longer available is this one still good for a starter

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GYRQVYV/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_w4sfCb16KY2MC

This is the one i have..

garbled · Dec 25, 2018

You know, I was thinking, if those of us who put models up on thingiverse marked them with the tag "R2R", we could easily search and find the ones from this thread or others. I'll go mark mine with that tag now..

Erica-Renee · Dec 25, 2018

garbled said:
You know, I was thinking, if those of us who put models up on thingiverse marked them with the tag "R2R", we could easily search and find the ones from this thread or others. I'll go mark mine with that tag now..

we have a reef- pi tag going there as well.

b4tn · Dec 25, 2018

Just ordered a geetech A10. My family got together and gave me gift cards towards it

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chrishet · Jan 11, 2019

Hi 3D Reefers. My first post here. and as others have said, we need a 3d printer forum! I have an Ender 3 at the moment. I've printed a ton of stuff for my new 70 gal build, mostly power supply brackets, supports, and misc things - Click Here

I would like to know what others have done to help secure 3D printed items to the bottom of their tanks. I printed a 3 tier frag rack for a QT tank and cannot get it to sink! I even went as far as printing a base part and filled it with E-Marco 400. I wasn't thinking when I started the print that having an infill might be an issue so I am trying a few parts at 100% infill in hopes that would help displace less water - Archimedes and me do not share the same DNA! lol TIA!

chrishet · Jan 11, 2019

chrishet said:
Hi 3D Reefers. My first post here. and as others have said, we need a 3d printer forum! I have an Ender 3 at the moment. I've printed a ton of stuff for my new 70 gal build, mostly power supply brackets, supports, and misc things - Click Here

I would like to know what others have done to help secure 3D printed items to the bottom of their tanks. I printed a 3 tier frag rack for a QT tank and cannot get it to sink! I even went as far as printing a base part and filled it with E-Marco 400. I wasn't thinking when I started the print that having an infill might be an issue so I am trying a few parts at 100% infill in hopes that would help displace less water - Archimedes and me do not share the same DNA! lol TIA!

Experiment 1 Complete - 100% infill components sinks, PETG anyway....cool! This is going to take a while to print...will post back after my frag rack is finished.

crusso1993 · Jan 11, 2019

I recently posted in "How to make R2R better in 2019." Perhaps if enough people post there along the same lines a new forum will be started. Thoughts?

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-make-r2r-better-in-2019.535050/page-5#post-5568668