New little video I've edited today chatting about some 3d printing techniques, welding parts with a 3d printing pen and also embedding fibreglass into prints to make very stiff components.
The fibreglass part is interesting, in theory since it has a complete mesh with long fibres embedded in it should be even stiffer than a part printed with one of those filaments with short bits of fibre in them. Also you can use different kinds of meshes and orient the fibres according the expected loads of the part. Opens up lots of possibilities.
As a suggestion: It might be worth trying a heat source with a larger area on the flat surfaces of the part to get a cleaner finish. An old electric iron might do the trick. I've seem them used to heat up 3D prints for beding, it should get hot enough.
Yes indeed I'm interested to compare it to a part made with the short fibrous filaments, I also agree on different iron tools, somewhere I have an old soldering gun which has a nice flat tool around 1cm across I thought would be great for this. As with all things my 3rd and 4th attempts where much better and its possible to get reasonably tidy results.
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The fibreglass part is interesting, in theory since it has a complete mesh with long fibres embedded in it should be even stiffer than a part printed with one of those filaments with short bits of fibre in them.
Also you can use different kinds of meshes and orient the fibres according the expected loads of the part. Opens up lots of possibilities.
As a suggestion: It might be worth trying a heat source with a larger area on the flat surfaces of the part to get a cleaner finish.
An old electric iron might do the trick.
I've seem them used to heat up 3D prints for beding, it should get hot enough.
Yes indeed I'm interested to compare it to a part made with the short fibrous filaments, I also agree on different iron tools, somewhere I have an old soldering gun which has a nice flat tool around 1cm across I thought would be great for this. As with all things my 3rd and 4th attempts where much better and its possible to get reasonably tidy results.
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