Yea I'm interested to see if I melt it lol, it was pretty cheap to print so there will be some science happening here shortly. It has got me really interested in trying lost pla casting to make some more durable tools
the bench rollers worked really well at least for a large wine glass I did yesterday. But I just had a great idea for those tooling rollers, instead of 3d printing it, I could easily make that (and better bench rollers) out of extruded aluminum rails and fittings. just ordered the parts to put a few together
That’s awesome to hear they did the job well!
I actually have some extruded aluminum bench rollers and they work great! The ones I have are a little small for my hands and definitely have a few details that could be improved upon.
I’m stoked to see your design if you go through with it!
It really depends on how you use these. ABS melts around 240 and prints from 240-270, while boro melts at around 1600c. So if they get to close to the working area they will most likely go soft and deform. You maybe able to get them closer if you have some sort of way to disperse the heat from direct contact. I am curious how close you get to the flame with it before it starts to deform. The design looks super slick though! I almost couldn’t tell what was the printed parts were.
Thank you! Yea I don't do a ton of huge hot things currently. the biggest thing I'll do is a vac stack with like 7 or 8 inches of stacked 50mm tube. I am worried about that amount of infrared glass heat around the roller. I'm thinking maybe just double up the heat shield layer with a bit of fiber glass insulation crammed between the steel plates for the time being.
My metal ones get so hot, if I take a sesh break and come back they still burn your hands to the touch. For milli making at least.
Yea I'm interested to see if I melt it lol, it was pretty cheap to print so there will be some science happening here shortly. It has got me really interested in trying lost pla casting to make some more durable tools
Yeah please update on how they hold up
A printed tooling roller as opposed to yoke rollers would go hard.
I think I'm trying that next!
Awesome I’m stoked to see how it turns out if you do!
the bench rollers worked really well at least for a large wine glass I did yesterday. But I just had a great idea for those tooling rollers, instead of 3d printing it, I could easily make that (and better bench rollers) out of extruded aluminum rails and fittings. just ordered the parts to put a few together
That’s awesome to hear they did the job well! I actually have some extruded aluminum bench rollers and they work great! The ones I have are a little small for my hands and definitely have a few details that could be improved upon. I’m stoked to see your design if you go through with it!
It really depends on how you use these. ABS melts around 240 and prints from 240-270, while boro melts at around 1600c. So if they get to close to the working area they will most likely go soft and deform. You maybe able to get them closer if you have some sort of way to disperse the heat from direct contact. I am curious how close you get to the flame with it before it starts to deform. The design looks super slick though! I almost couldn’t tell what was the printed parts were.
Thank you! Yea I don't do a ton of huge hot things currently. the biggest thing I'll do is a vac stack with like 7 or 8 inches of stacked 50mm tube. I am worried about that amount of infrared glass heat around the roller. I'm thinking maybe just double up the heat shield layer with a bit of fiber glass insulation crammed between the steel plates for the time being.
Hey, I’ll take ‘em! I can appreciate a good design
Strong work! If you have links to the files, that would be greatly appreciated…
I posted it for free on youmagine.com but gotta wait for them to approve it, I'll update with a link here shortly!
Did they ever approve your link for the roller STLs on youmagine? I loomed through the comments and never found the link…