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Useful hunting related 3D printer files

I'd been gone from this thread for a while.... For hunting related, I worked on some camera mounts. The first was the grey one, which was fine but the camera brand I'm using is moving more to having the 1/4-20 mount on the back of the camera instead of the bottom and this did not give enough adjustment for those since I typically put my cameras 10' or so off the ground and need to angle them downwards. I made the 2nd one next, which is fine, but that ball head adds to the overall cost.
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I’m in the process of building a 2 head tool changer and I when I’m done I should have some cool multi material prints to show off after some prototyping and iterating.
 
boxerboxer said:
I’m in the process of building a 2 head tool changer and I when I’m done I should have some cool multi material prints to show off after some prototyping and iterating.
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Oooo nice. I've been wanting a dual extruder just so I can use soluble filament to print supports, and get better surfaces on supported pieces. Most of the stuff i print i don't care about multi color, but multi material would be awesome.

My ender 3s1 finally bit it so I upgraded to a flashforge 5m pro.


BT
 
Black Titan said:
Oooo nice. I've been wanting a dual extruder just so I can use soluble filament to print supports, and get better surfaces on supported pieces. Most of the stuff i print i don't care about multi color, but multi material would be awesome.

My ender 3s1 finally bit it so I upgraded to a flashforge 5m pro.


BT
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Yeah there's just not that much out there right now without spending a bunch of money (Bambu H2D, Ratrig V-Core 4 IDEX, Prusa XL, or even more expensive commercial machines). Sovol used to have the SV04 which was IDEX and pretty affordable. Otherwise if you don't want to spend 2k+ you're building it yourself, but then you have to be comfortable in DIY world and be your own customer support.

The printer I'm building is actually from the ashes of a couple Ender 3 pros. The whole frame except 2 purchased extrusions, a lot of hardware, the bed and build plate, the power supply, and the mainboards will all be carried over. I've got extrusions drilled for blind joints and all my motions system parts (linear rails, belts, pulleys, etc) are on the way to me. It's basically a Voron 2.4 with some modifications to accommodate the ender parts, and probably Stealthchanger for the toolchanging with Anthead toolheads because they're a little smaller and will kill less buildplate space. If I can get my business idea off the ground I'll build a 300mm 2.4 or Trident with frame oversized enough to keep all my buildplate usable. This printer I'm building now will be about 220x170mm minus 2 60mm squares on the front left and front right corners. Good for proof of concept but a little small if I'm building lots of parts.
 
boxerboxer said:
Yeah there's just not that much out there right now without spending a bunch of money (Bambu H2D, Ratrig V-Core 4 IDEX, Prusa XL, or even more expensive commercial machines). Sovol used to have the SV04 which was IDEX and pretty affordable. Otherwise if you don't want to spend 2k+ you're building it yourself, but then you have to be comfortable in DIY world and be your own customer support.

The printer I'm building is actually from the ashes of a couple Ender 3 pros. The whole frame except 2 purchased extrusions, a lot of hardware, the bed and build plate, the power supply, and the mainboards will all be carried over. I've got extrusions drilled for blind joints and all my motions system parts (linear rails, belts, pulleys, etc) are on the way to me. It's basically a Voron 2.4 with some modifications to accommodate the ender parts, and probably Stealthchanger for the toolchanging with Anthead toolheads because they're a little smaller and will kill less buildplate space. If I can get my business idea off the ground I'll build a 300mm 2.4 or Trident with frame oversized enough to keep all my buildplate usable. This printer I'm building now will be about 220x170mm minus 2 60mm squares on the front left and front right corners. Good for proof of concept but a little small if I'm building lots of parts.
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Thats awesome! Sounds like you know what you're doing for sure.

I've barely dipped my feet into the water with mods. Too nervous to mess anything up. Still tossing around the idea of klipper on the flashforge, but dont want to screw it up.

BT
 
Black Titan said:
Thats awesome! Sounds like you know what you're doing for sure.

I've barely dipped my feet into the water with mods. Too nervous to mess anything up. Still tossing around the idea of klipper on the flashforge, but dont want to screw it up.

BT
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If you're satisfied with the prints you're getting you don't really need to. Printing fast is cool, but generally if you're not making money printing it's not that big a deal. Modding is awesome, but to me it's like cars. You gotta figure out if you like working on cars or if you just like driving. If you just want to print, you've already got a good platform to do it with. If you want to tinker/mod AND print, then a platform like an Ender on the low end or your Vorons on the higher end are a great platform for that. I'm still pretty green with this stuff but I've spent a lot of time now with my Ender getting the best performance I can out of it (klipper, better part cooling and extruder, belt drive replacing screw to smooth out the z axis, learning how to tune the mechanical system and tune the slicer settings for a given material). The Ender is a pain but I'm glad I started with it because it forced me to learn a lot of stuff I wouldn't have known if I just bought a Bambu P1S, loaded up the default profile, and started printing flawlessly. It's a lot of fun and super useful to have a printer around.
 
Cbigbear said:
I didn’t print this, but made it out of uhmw. I need to make the stand mount out of aluminum because the swivel quiver mount generates to much pressure.
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If you have CAD files for it and want to try 3D printing it let me know. I have PLA+, ABS, and PETG on hand, and I think there’s a good chance at least the first two would be stiff enough.
 
boxerboxer said:
If you have CAD files for it and want to try 3D printing it let me know. I have PLA+, ABS, and PETG on hand, and I think there’s a good chance at least the first two would be stiff enough.
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Could always add additional top/bottom/outer layers to stiffen up PETG or PETG "MAX".
 
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