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The more you will work with 3D printing the more you will think about insiginifiant short print helping to solve simple problems.
I do no longer see problems, I see solutions

Any experience with the A1? My daughter is.looking to learn and make stuff, this one is on the short list. Easy enough for a 13y old to learn with supervison? Easy enough for a non digital guy like me to run on a cheap PC? I just got a Bambulab A1 mini to complete my X1C for some use cases I could ...

With a simple file, it works better... https://i.imgur.com/N6N2lIj.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/w1f23GD.jpeg And sicne this is working, it is time to elaborate a solution for the pulley shaft. First step is cut and file... https://i.imgur.com/pixFaJk.jpeg Then the idea is to using a saw to do the groove...

I spend a bit of the day today on this project, with the overall idea I want to be able to make it quite versatile in terms of battery configurations, and I also planned for mini and standard servo (mini servo is better, though), with a bit of flexibility as not all servos are exactly the same size....

I still need to cross drill the differential shafts... The printed plastic hole doesn't work good enough for the centering of the cross drilling. I discuss with Dadio , and he suggested to use a piece of rod drilled in the center section to guide the drill bit (super easy to do with a lathe, but I d...

The dremel workstation is crap, the arrowmax mini drill too slow... I took a different approach considering that the proper guiding would be enough to make proper holes with just the normal drill if I pay attention to make it right... Two drill bits broken later, I have my 4 shafts for the diff. htt...

Now I've learnt that something I always dreamt would make life easier is not as great as imagined for a couple of reasons, I'm talking window masks , today was my first experience with them and my hopes were high for genuine Yokomo masks from a kit used on the body in the kit I mean what could go w...

Just received chassis parts today thanks to @GoMachV


I will have to print my parts in final mode soon so I can check everything and make them available...

Yesterday, I printed the pulley cover in Translucent ABS, and I decided to try something different... I used PETG as support interface material... https://i.imgur.com/LzWxjgm.jpeg The PETG was mostly removed... https://i.imgur.com/VAK5AEo.jpeg To remove the last bit i used a grinding tool... It's no...

Time to play with colors again... Rit Dye Orange Apricot https://i.imgur.com/GwH7hEF.jpeg If ever you use this dye tone, be careful, the bubles are giving a clearer tone to the parts compared to what it is in reality... As a result it is a bit too dark compared to what I wanted initially... But it w...

Problem of the day : king pins. https://i.imgur.com/zW3OOAh.jpeg I know that my friend Dadio would say it is easy to do with a lathe (i'm sure it is, by the way), but I do not have a lathe... As usual i'm going to work aorund this with printed parts, a file, a few screws ball bearing and a drill. St...

Problem of the day : king pins. https://i.imgur.com/zW3OOAh.jpeg I know that my friend @Dadio would say it is easy to do with a lathe (i'm sure it is, by the way), but I do not have a lathe... As usual i'm going to work aorund this with printed parts, a file, a few screws ball bearing and a drill. ...

It worked, mostly...


A M3.5 screw is not a perfect starting point as the root of the thread is under 3mm diameter. But this will do it...

Happy New Year and best wishes to everyone! This morning I had my first success of 2025, I hope there will be more :) The build of this Zerda starts by the differentials. Not a single original part is present on those pictures and was used. Differential internals are optima rerelease diff internals ...

Silvertripple is the guy to talk to , he's had good results with 3d printed metal gears @silvertriple Well as mentioned in my experimentation, while I get reproductible results with one online printing service, I have to remind you that I had to rework the Hunter and Super Wheelie idle gears to get...