I got my hands on one of these blasted things after putting it off for more than a decade... Why didn't I do this earlier I don't know.

Haven't been logging in much and right now I've entered the "i'm going to 3d print rc aircraft to save money" stage of the 3d printing disease.

Haven't loaded up the LW-PLA yet but printing frames on rolling papers gets ya halfway there... check out my first flying 225mg glider prototype out of the printer today: ~600:1 P3 orion for scale... didn't have a banana.

Couple more photos in the album too busy extruding bother with a proper photo montage: https://imgur.com/a/e7r6Z2G

Well tbh if you had gotten into it 10 years ago you might have hated the hobby. Printers back then were nowhere near "Ready to print" out of the box like these Bambus are now. Lotta calibration, moderately steep learning curve, and you always had to fiddle with em to get useable prints. You were always upgrading parts or fighting with the slicers. There wasn't any LW-PLA or ASA or any of the nice filents we have now.

Don't get me wrong, I love my Ender 3 Pro, but Bambu is to the 3D printer hobby as DJi was to the drone hobby.

Still a great hobby. If I ever get it together I want to print one of these: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2581875-carbon-apogee-evo-3d-printed-carbon-nylon-dlg#profileId-2847673

Yeah I almost got a reprap kit at one point glad I waited, the resolution this thing can pull off is mindblowing not to mention the black magic voodoo that goes into printing overhangs.

That's a freaking beautiful glider; thanks for the link!

I sent you a pic Spidey (cause I dont know how to post it here). Some of those mechs were printed at .06mm layer height. Super-fine, and pretty slow. Took anywhere from 7-10 hours each at that layer height, but they look so smooth for FDM!

When your not in a hurry you can almost make em look close to resin prints (I still want a SLA printer...)

Ahhh it's not getting better...




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Frikin 20 grams!

Damn imgur and their sensible option of giving the UK the big middle finger. Ah, sometimes I hate living in this shed of a country...

Tried shopping for tools cause we lost sone needle nose pliers to the sea whilst doing repairs... the fooking .co.uk site wants a photo of my passport.

We've been hopping all around yer west coast... and the border force in plymouth siezed 5000euroballs worth of rifles and other bear countermeasures jeopardizing the whole foken greenland expedition thing my cousin and his mates got going on... damn shame we can't 3d print bear spray canisters on the boat... yet!

PS: you wouldn't happen to have a mechanical pressure gauge/manometer threaded for a 1980's perkins 108.4M? She's been having issues with 'er circuit and we haven't been able to get a good read on the fancy analog 'lectrical gauge!

We'll be making our way up the caledonian canals over the next week fingers crossed she doesn't blow a gasket or shatter a journal!

Dude, that is kind of mental to be honest. I was just up in Fort William looking to buy a broken Cessna 172p (1984) for uhum, none flight hobby purposes (honest). Shame I'm back in Mancy now tho (without my damn plane!). Literally a stones throw away from them there canals! Yeah, the English side sucks a lot recently. Just be glad you are not English in England right now. That blows proper meaty chunks!

On topic tho, shame these 3D printers cannot keep up with Harolds Purple Crayon, maybe one day you will be able to print a new boat when the current one breaks :D

Oh yeah, and use https://imgbb.com/ ffs! imgur is sooo yesterday (I would say this, imgur banned my entire country lol)