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Aussie Sawppy ... is go!

A project log for Aussie Sawppy

An antipodean sibling

teamsgTeamSG 06/22/2019 at 10:090 Comments

And we're away...

Our initial purchase of printer filament included a roll of black PLA, so we've started to print the wheels - design gratefully downloaded from those @Roger has shared with the world at his GitHub repository (https://github.com/Roger-random).

With the slicer set at 0.2mm layers, it's about a 15-hour print job - our longest to date.

Set it to go late afternoon, print overnight and it's finished before everyone leaves for work / school. Shut doors in the house to keep the noise contained. Our printer isn't too noisy, but it's definitely loud enough to have you stirring in the night wondering what that sound is.

No dramas with the first big print.

Yep. That'd be some stringing you can see in there. My son intends to fiddle with the print settings to see if we can reduce it, but it's not that bad. Easily cleaned up with your fingers.

Impressions

#1: The 0.2mm layer height we chose is more than adequate. Could probably get away with 0.35mm. 

#2: When I held it in my hand, the wheel was bigger than I thought it would be. I'd obviously seen the STL model and its nominal dimensions, but I still found it strikingly large.

#3: There is more to the wheel design than I picked up from looking at it on a screen. Again, once you have it in your hand and push / poke / squeeze / twist,  the detail pops makes sense. Built-in suspension, both perpendicular to the axle around the axle! With the wheel being a single piece of plastic, there is obviously more springing than damping going on, but it's pretty impressive. Noice!

Anyways, that's about it. We're off and running.

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