Anyone into 3D printing?

[OneWheelPeel]

I just found an Ender-3 V3 Plus printer locally at $499 Cdn. It has the 300X300 (12X12) build plate. Is that a decent hobby machine?

Thats the one I tried to link above, its targeted to hobbyists so probably fine.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

My customer printed a suppressor for one of my .22 semi autos. Super quiet

 

[SLANTFISH]

I use a Qidi Q1, it does high temp filaments and has great print quality, I have over 500hrs of mostly trouble free printing.

I use it to make custom fender tags and I'm working on a new product, '70 Rallye wheel center caps that weigh 1/3. The initial design work is done, just finalizing some details. I use ASA for all this for it's UV, weather and temp resistance

 

[Photon440]

I think this has the 300 by 300 build plate for under $450. Probably what I would look at getting if my current printer died.
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I think I cleaned up the link

$749 on the Canadian site.

 

[qkcuda]

Canada Computers & Electronics is still showing them for $499 here.

 

[OneWheelPeel]

$749 on the Canadian site.

Well damn!

 

[Photon440]

Canada Computers & Electronics is still showing them for $499 here.

Thanks for the tip, I wasn't aware of that store. I see that there are some of them in my area.

 

[MJF_]

I use a Qidi Q1, it does high temp filaments and has great print quality, I have over 500hrs of mostly trouble free printing.

I use it to make custom fender tags and I'm working on a new product, '70 Rallye wheel center caps that weigh 1/3. The initial design work is done, just finalizing some details. I use ASA for all this for it's UV, weather and temp resistance

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Could you make 1968 style fendertags?

 

[SLANTFISH]

Could you make 1968 style fendertags?

I'll have to play with it later today and see if I can do the small font, if the small letters turn out decent I would need a physical sample tag to get millimeter precise dimensions for the initial design layout. The biggest challenge on these is getting good crisp numbers and letters at such a small scale, if that works out the rest is straightforward.

So far I've done multiple '69-'73 A, B And E bodies and a few 'custom words', with my favorite being a Superbird.