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:D She’s printing!!!! :D Hopefully will be printing big Goblin parts soon. A center console with 2 cupholders would be quite nice. :D

Stuff like this… center console, CHMSL/dome light/rear view camera, air filter housing, various mounts & clamps… Heavy stuff I originally designed out of metal will be 3D printed out of lightweight polymer instead, finally on a printer big enough to print it. Also makes me more confident to go...

Not as of yet, other than a few parts orders. Busy designing this new 3D printer prototype that will print many of my new Goblin parts.

In the middle of building printer frame #1. Its about as big as a washing machine. I’m on the 5th frame rebuild as I am trying to pick up technique and identify deficiencies in the hardware. The more square the initial build is, the less hassle it will be to calibrate later on. I hope to have...

Design is done. The entire lower airfoil section of that front spoiler is plastic. I cannot print it without the right printer.

Getting closer with my 3 custom 3D printer builds.I designed my printheads from scratch, running CAN bus with quick change tool heads with their own processor cards with unique ID’s. Printhead parts are designed prototyped, and fit tested. Final prototype designs are are ready for production...

It will fit. Its definitely gonna be tight. My wife actually wanted to sell the sectional couch and TV and just move everything into the living room. I almost took her up on that.

I’m slightly closer to printing huge Goblin parts. My 3 500mm printer kits have arrived. My toolhead design is nearly done. Yesterday I wired in 3 separate dedicated 20A breakers to my print room to run each printer. Its been kinda crazy because my business is picking up and I’m busy trying to...

Story of my life lately, brother. In our quest for excellence, we often miss the little details that are the root cause of the issues. Instead we mask the problem by “tuning”. Quite often, bits and pieces of pertinent info are missed from the desks of engineers to the customer. Engineers just...

Waiting on my 3 500x500 Ratrig kits. Currently busy designing my new extruder layouts; this is what I’ve got so far. Will be running quick change tool heads so its gonna be a mishmash of Ratrig design that I will need to modify in order to fit my application. I don’t check in here often but...

This week I ordered 3 500x500 bed Ratrig printer kits from the UK. I like the Ratrig’s kinematic bed design; especially for a bed of that size. Bed expansion is unconstricted which is important on such a large surface with numerous heat expansion cycles. There also exists the capability for...

LDK is a later version European version of the LNF as far as I know. The LNF supposedly had issues with cooling.

I bought the Einscan HX / red bundle that comes with the Geomagic Essentials software.

I’ve been on a long vacation, but I have had more time to play with the 3D scanner in the meantime. It scans really well; the hardest part is properly applying the mesh conversion/post processing and organizing the data in CAD, as each scan has different requirements. I just recently took on a...

I really like 1/4” 6061 aluminum for the front spoiler and that will be what I use. Its strong, rigid, yet still light (although any weight added that far forward is only going to help anyways.

3D Scanner came in. Played around with it all day. I pushed it to its limits on random small-part high definition organic curvature shapes with various reflectivity well below its rated parameters using only base plane reference points; just to see what it was capable of. Once I get good at...

Still here… lol. I am working through some ideas for the Goblin for fall when I attack my build again. I ended up cancelling the order for the industrial printer. They kept delaying delivery, and I later found out it is made in the Ukraine. I would rather see how it does after its been well...

Here is the Powell documentation, if you don’t already have it.

Lol, my build has been going horrifically slow, lol. Ever since I started this business (that I do not advertise), I have had steady customer business, as well as a couple major production projects I’m the middle of. I’m heavily into the R&D and acquisition phase right now. A day doesn’t go by...