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    Printer (Creality CR10S Pro V2) arrived last night but I decided not to futz with it and waited till my son came over this morning to help me set it up. In practice it was more like me helping him set it up, and I mainly just watched.

    Assembly:
    It comes almost fully assembled and only required;
    - attaching the assembled Z / X gantries to the base using 4 x 25mm M5 socket screws. It definitely helped to have 2 people to do this.
    - attaching the filament roll holder
    - plugging the Z/X stepper motor and print head wiring.

    The total time taken from opening the sealed box, to completely assembled was about 25 minutes.
    This included
    - checking box contents and, (GASP) my son even bothered to (skim) read the instructions
    - 10 of those minutes was spent looking for a lost socket screw (my desk in my study is a bit of a tip) and then giving up and getting one from the shed only to find the original screws was actually in the deeply recessed hole of an already tightened screw
    It was my fault because I put it there. put it there

    Calibration:
    This involves making sure the printer bed is level to the head etc.
    It has an auto leveller but a coarse bed levelling adjustment is necessary before the auto can work properly.
    While coarse levelling we repeatedly ran out of thumbscrew range on one corner of the bed so we back tracked and found out we had missed an assembly step of making sure the X-axis was level.
    This took about 50 minutes but we were printing in just over 75 minutes.

    Printer.JPG

    I really like how quiet it is (62 dB at 1m) compared to many 3D printers I have heard.

    Son has left me with instructions to print out a bunch of calibration pieces so there won't be much to show for a while.

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    Hi Bob, Did you end up printing anything practical on the printer? I am on a similar mission, planning to make a few things on the 3D printer for dust extraction. First thing will be a 200mm to 150mm reducer to put on my dust extractor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ilya View Post
    Hi Bob, Did you end up printing anything practical on the printer? I am on a similar mission, planning to make a few things on the 3D printer for dust extraction. First thing will be a 200mm to 150mm reducer to put on my dust extractor.
    Have printed heaps of things from Thingiverse but apart from a dust deflector for my SCMS, nothing yet for dust large scale dust extraction.
    Electronics project boxes./enclosures, Cable glands, fan grilles
    Hinges
    Small clamps and MANY clamp pads.
    Various tools/gizmos/racks
    About 20 different sewing/craft widgets for SWMBO
    About a dozen different things for my espresso coffee grinder

    Here is a section.
    PLA cone doohickey that helps keep internals of coffee grinder clena
    GrinderEgg.JPG

    PETG Picnic cup
    KulsaCup.JPG

    PLA Doserless cone and tray for grinder, send to hold portafilter
    TrayDoserfunnel.JPG

    PAL wire strippers
    IMG_5163.jpg

    TPU MW lathe soft jaws
    SoftLathechuckjaws.jpg

    PLA file and spanner racks
    fikles.JPG spannersAF.JPG

    PLA/Wood fibre yarn bowl
    IMG_bowl.jpg

    PLA Electronics boxes and glands
    Greyandblack.JPG Black&orange2.JPG

    TPU jaws
    Irwinclamppad2.JPG Softvicejaws.JPG

    Have gone through about 4 rolls of filament.
    Have tried PLA, PETG, TPU, ABS and PLA/ABS mix, and the yarn bowl above is a PLA/wood mix

    Recently I printed out a small (25/35mm) vac hose adapter but I need to adapt the plans to make the fittings slightly tapered like real PVC fittings.
    It should not be too difficult to scale up one I have it right.

    Oh yea and this printer enclosure. I printed the corner connectors.
    It has a built in fan that I will use to extract smelly odours and a dual head Temp/Humidity sensor
    One for the enclosure and one for the filament dehumidifier.
    enc3.JPG

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    Cool, thanks for sharing! Some very good ideas there, and I also wanted to print heaps of clamp pads - they always seem to break or disappear...

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    Some other small but useful things I have printed are

    Replacement battery compartment doors for a set of my fave digital callipers. In this particular the battery compartment door is loose and I have lost it several times but fortunately I seem to have been able to find it on one occasion it was after abut 3 months during which I . Of course I printed out several replacements and now that I have printed these I will probably not lose the door again.

    Car upholstery clips that pin upholstery to the doors and indoor panels of my van. I lost a couple and Toyota wanted a bomb for then. Yes they are available on ebay for not much, but I can now print them out for cents and have them available almost immediately.

    SWMBO is wrapped over her custom sized thimbles in softish TPU, the little stitch counter clip things she uses for crochet and knitting, plus a bunch of bobbins, bobbin clips and toggles, etc

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    Adding to Bob's list; some of the objects made are totally unexpected, such as a replacement bobbin for SWMBO's antique bobbin clamp, c.1850:

    Bobbin Winder.jpg


    The bobbin should have been ivory to match the body of the clamp, but I did not have an elephant.

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