Bearing
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Published on May 24, 2012
Description
This is a part I created for testing support material printing on the Makerbot Replicator. It actually turned up pretty nice! I've noticed the bearing works well for stress relief.
Instructions
I got it to print with 0.25mm layer thickness. Thinner layers won't print the balls right. The support is for PVA.
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latigerlilly
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September 29, 2012
said:
what hbp temperature did you use and what print surface did you use? Did you use kapton tape, blue painter's tape, or naked glass? thanks.
Stemlux_Systems
on
December 11, 2012
said:
Sorry that replying has taken so long. Somehow we haven't received a notification email... We use our own custom made polycarbonate platform that will in fact be available in our web shop in january.
Layer thickness 0.25, default speed, temp 190 for PVA, 210 for ABS. 110 for HBP. I have not tried PLA.
latigerlilly
on
September 29, 2012
said:
Also, what settings of temp, speed, etc did you use for both materials? Thanks.
latigerlilly
on
September 29, 2012
said:
Did you print it with ABS or PLA? I want to print this, too. Thanks ;-)
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Bearing by Stemlux_Systems is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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Amazingly I saw a bearing that looked just like this one printed on a Zcorp printer when I trained on them 10 years ago. Theirs worked great even though in those days they were using cyanoacrylate watered down to bond the powder. It seemed an amazing feat to me at the time. I still have one of them somewhere but last I saw, it had some mold on it. I wondered if it could be printed with plastic - now I know. :)