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3D-Printed Objects

Rajel

Well-known member
Yeah, Makerbot was an open design too... at first.
Micro Center carries a Replicator 2X clone for $700 that basically spanks the official model. I've seen prints come off that I can't touch with the Rep2 after it's been freshly leveled, cleaned, and tuned.
Smaller buildplate though. I do like the build area I get with the Rep2, although I'm itching for a bit more. I've got some large designs I'd love to run off in one piece.

JohnnyA: Had a crazy busy weekend and working late tonight, I'll get the single prints started asap, likely tomorrow evening. 

 

Johnnya101

Well-known member
Thats fine, I don't even think tech knight has been able to get far with my board yet! (Or even received it! lol) (For my portable)

 

olePigeon

Well-known member
Man, these Prusas are nice so far.  Out of the box I've printed a bunch of stuff flawlessly.  I LOVE the auto-leveling.  It levels the build plate between each print automatically.

The software, however, is cumbersome.  Typical open source stuff.  All you can say about it is that it's ... functional.  Looks like an 8-year-old designed the interface. :-/

 

360alaska

Well-known member
Are you using cura for the I3? Do you have any interest in letting go of your makerbot?

 
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Rajel

Well-known member
Eventually I'm going to get an Simplify3D license. I've seen pretty fantastic stuff come off that slicer, all sorts of ways to optimize the build.

 

olePigeon

Well-known member
Are you using cura for the I3? Do you have any interest in letting go of your makerbot?
I'm using whatever software they have on the Prusa website.  Slic3r and some app I don't remember that actually does the printing.

Yes, we're getting rid of the MakerBot.

 

olePigeon

Well-known member
I don't know if it's an early or later Makerbot 2.  I just know that it never worked.  Also, the school had decided to not to spend another dime on it.  So unless you're willing to come to the school and repair it for free, I don't think that's an option. :p

Otherwise we're going to sell it.  There's supposed to be some company that buys used Makerbots, or at least my coworker told me so.  I'm having trouble find it, however.

 
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BlueBoy

Member
So I just saw this thread...

I bought an SE last year. It came with 2 floppy drives (1 1.4M drive, 1 800K drive), The 800K drive was toast. It's upper head and ribbon cable were torn off the support arm and I have no clue if it can be fixed.

The SE has the 800K roms so the 1.4M drive was just a 800K drive. There was also a hard disk rigged to the top of the floppy drive cage. Well I was wanting the 1.4M drive to work, so I ordered an SE FDHD logic board and an upper drive sled w/ activity LED. The 1.4M drive went to the bottom floppy cage and the HD was mounted in it's sled.

The only problem was I had no upper floppy faceplate. So I fired up 123D Design and made a faceplate in 2 parts. I printed the faceplate w/LED window hole in white (closest matching color I had). I printed the LED window in clear. (It's really not clear, just a diffused translucence, but that's great for it's purpose.)

I had no reference for how the official one attached. I don't remember if we hot glued it in or taped it, but the STL has tabs that keep the part from popping through the front of the Mac. We just taped or glued the tabs to the inside of the SE.

I've attached the 123D Design files and STL files for both parts.

Related Note: They were printed on my Robo 3D R1+ which works pretty well.

Mac SE Drive Faceplate.zip

 

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Rajel

Well-known member
Johnnya101: Think I have my print profile tweaked to handle small parts like the feet now, gonna try to remember to get a print run off tonight.

 

redruM69

Active member
Hi guys.  I just wanted to touch up a bit on 360alaska's great ideas for 3d printing parts for our machines.  I downloaded the STL for the Mac Portable foot, but I found the file has several errors.  Nothing huge wrong, just tiny gaps n such, which can cause some slicer weirdness.  Also, I found it wasn't quite dimensionally correct, causing a loose fit.

I redesigned it a bit, and uploaded it to Thingiverse.  You can give it a try here:   https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2547630

I've only printed with TPU, and it prints and fits perfectly snug.  PLA may be more challenging due to its brittleness.

 

Swolfington

Well-known member
I didn't realize there was a dedicated 3d printing thread, and made a post for the mouse ball cover I made over in the lounge. oops! 

Anyway, I made a ball cover for an ADB II mouse because my 3 year old managed to break one. So far the 3d printed part has withstood the test of his continued use, so it's probably pretty good for everyone else, hah.

The STL is attached to this post, go hog wild.

When I get some free time, I intend on modeling a cdrom bezel for my 8100/8500/9500. And if someone can measure it, I'm sure i can model the bezel for the 950 as well - from the pictures I've seen it looks pretty simple. 

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View attachment ADBMouseIIBallCover.stl

 

Swolfington

Well-known member
Spent some time today putting together a model for the 800/8100/8500/9500 drive bay bezels. Almost done with the cdrom one, just need to finish the eject button and then figure out the best way to print the whole thing. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out!

The only part I am not really sure about are the two flang/clip things on the rear right side. I have like 3 different bezels in front of me, and none of them have any of those left, attached or otherwise. If anyone out there can take a picture and/or measure of a non broken one, that would be fantastic (but please please don't take a good one out of an assembled machine! Any attempt to remove an installed one is pretty much 100% guaranteed to break those very clips). I just took a guess on their construction for the most part.

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Swolfington

Well-known member
@Trash80toHP_Mini thanks!

@Unknown_K I actually already have a blank bezel model, as that was the step right before modeling all the cd specific stuff. I can try to do a floppy bezel, however all 3 I own are current attached to a Mac and not broken, and I am worried that removing one would break it. I should be able to measure the size and position of the slot from the outside, but if there is any specific things going on inside, I wont be able to tell. Unless someone can post a picture of one! I kinda doubt there is much to worry about in there, but I like to be as close to 1:1 as possible just in case. 

With that said, here are some pictures of a prototype print! It alllllmost fits in the chassis, but due to a printing error and a couple of things I mis-measured, it isn't 100%. I'm printing a new one now, but it's going to take 3 hours and change to see if I fixed everything.

Also, until today, the empty bay bezel on this computer wasn't broken. I breathed on it the wrong way and the clips on one side just popped free :(. Luckily, I was able to retrieve all the pieces and it shed some light on how the right rear clips are supposed to look (I was way off, hah). Not a total loss, but still, ugh. I feel so stupid. I think i'm going to glue this one back together since I know where everything is supposed to go.

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Trash80toHP_Mini

NIGHT STALKER
Beeeyootiful! 8) I imagine Zip bezels would be appreciated and a trayloader Q950 upgrade would tickle me pink.

I'm gonna stick my neck out here and say that using a hair dryer to soften up the SpindlyPlast is the only way I'm going to be doing bezel removals from now on.

YMMV

 

Byrd

Well-known member
Thanks for spending the time to design these bezels, Swolfington - I'm sure a lot of members here appreciate it, as do I :D

 

Swolfington

Well-known member
@Trash80toHP_Mini Thanks again! :)  I have an IDE interal zip drive, I wonder if it differs from the SCSI version at all? if not I should be able to use that to mock up a zip drive bezel. 

I am not even going to risk using a hair dryer. No more tempting fate on this old plastic, haha. Unless something comes up, I am pretty confident i can make due without taking the floppy one off

@Byrd Not a problem at all. It started off as a pretty selfish impulse - I just really wanted to fix the giant holes in my machines. If other people can use it too, that is just icing on the cake! Plus, once I made the base bezel, adding the other ones was not a whole lot of extra work.

 

Trash80toHP_Mini

NIGHT STALKER
I've never noticed a difference on the front end of the two types of Zip drives.

Maybe the maniac can find and post her Stubby 840AV Optical/HDD MiniTower vHack? That would be a great place to put a few printed bezels. The only part that would need to be tweaked would be a squarish blank bezel for the bottom of the case.

 
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