3d Printing

[Mikemass]

I had my wife print this primer catcher/redirector for me.


Curing in UV light


Installed on my Rock Chucker

This was a freely downloadable file from https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1692346

My wife designs jewelry in CAD and we have a Formlabs Form 2 at the house so if I'm really nice to her I can get stuff printed once in awhile lol

[nn21]

Super jealous of the From 2. Do you run into any issues with the resin sitting out and kicking off? Or do you go through it fast enough to never run into that issue?

[Mikemass]

Super jealous of the From 2. Do you run into any issues with the resin sitting out and kicking off? Or do you go through it fast enough to never run into that issue?

She runs it pretty much everyday and switches between a hard resin and a castable wax depending on project haven't had any issues for the 1 year plus she's been using it. This was the first print she did using their "clear" (not really that clear when used for thick parts) resin it has similar qualities to acrylic.

[markk]

I’ve been thinking about buying a 3D printer; maybe when prices drop. Ideas for projects? Your limited by your imagination. How about jackets for lead bullets? Shell tray for reloading....

[nn21]

I've considered making a shell tray. Every time it comes up I realize how much easier it is to just drive up to bass pro and spend 5 dollars instead of waiting a few hours for it to print.

Prices are already super low. The printer I did the die holder on will do 12x12x16 and cost me something like 300 bucks.

[jcourson]

Im running the replicator 2 at home, we have the 2x and a airwolf at work which are always giving us issues lol

We just got the 2x at work. Honestly, I doubt it will get much use just because working in CAD is probably beyond most of my peers.

[Ferrum]

I'd say it depends largely on what design you're trying to make. Most every "engineering" type cad system is going to have you create 3D shapes via 2D sketches. Because of this, making simple designs, like the pic I posted, is relatively easy. If you're just doing a holder, catch bin, or something where everything goes in one direction, it should be relatively easy. In that case you would only need to understand 3 or 4 commands. Once you get into more complex shapes, the learning curve increases exponentially as you need to understand the concept of reference planes in 3D space. I made a few extended (just in size. not in capacity) base pads that took twice as long to model as the holder I posted, despite being a fraction of the size.

Once you make/find/buy a model, it's as simple as saving it into the right format to be accepted by your printer software to be programmed to print.

Good info!

here is a free cad design system that you can download and play with.

http://autodesk-123d-design.en.lo4d.com/

Thanks, I'll try it out.

[cabinetguy]

Tagged for info. I got my wife a 3d printer for xmas so if I am lucky I might get a chance to use it down the road.

[jcourson]

Good info!



Thanks, I'll try it out.

Autodesk123 went away. Autodesk has now grouped several tools under the Fusion360 suite.
I would suggest trying out TinkerCAD (part of the 360 suite) if you are completely new to CAD.

[nn21]

Just download Fusion. Its free and immensely more powerful than any of the other intro CAD products. Plus, there are literally a million youtube tutorials to get you started

[HighRoad308]

Someone was asking earlier about the akro-bins front plate:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2219217

I'm working on making a moon clip tool right now, I can post it when done prototyping. I also made a 9mm AR buffer spacer earlier, but ended up just buying the part since it was cheap.

[HighRoad308]

So going through this exercise has taught me something, moon clips aren't universal. Essentially you need to match your clips to your brand of ammunition, even within caliber. So my fiocchi 38/357 cartridges don't fit in my clips. My magtech fits slightly better, but still too tight, and some HPR rounds I have are slightly too loose. I am guessing that they were designed for Federal? There are very expensive options from TK Customs for most brands of ammunition.

https://www.tkcustom.com/resources/faq-s

It turned out printing something to get enough leverage to load/unload the clips was kind of tricky. I ended up resorting to buying some metal at the hardware store and just 3d printing handles for them. I designed the handles in OpenSCAD and printed them on a Dremel 3D20. Total cost was around $15 for both tools. $11 of which was the aluminum flat and copper pipe.

Here's my handmade Remooner and Demooner tools:

[NapalmCheese]

I like loading light loads in .30-30 with Red Dot and, while I've never double charged a case (and given the load I use a double charge would probably be okay with cast lead) I've occasionally thought about ways to quickly check for double charged cases.

I have an idea for a loading block and a matching 'plunger grid'. I'd put charged cases in the loading block, drop the 'plunger grid' into the case necks, and if any are double charged the 'plunger grid' should stand proud instead of flush.

I only recently acquired a 3d printer, so I've not made this yet.

Of course I could just load them all one at a time on my turret and not worry about it.

[HighRoad308]

Interesting concept. Essentially a powder cop with 50 plungers? What model loading block do you use? I think I could set up a customizer script to dynamically size one.


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[HighRoad308]

I came up with this based on your idea:


I couldn't get the customizer feature on thingiverse working, it seems to be broken. But I did attach the scad file here if you want to make some edits to the top variables. I'm sure the spacing between points is not right, also the size of the plunger is just a guess. I don't know what caliber you're reloading.