My attempt at 3D printing racks (8 Viewers)

[Chile85]

Mine doesn't look like that one. Mine has the grid on it. Here's a pic. It has a smooth laminate on it that has a sorta yellow-greenish tint to it. I actually thought I was supposed to remove it at first lol. But I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be there.



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Highly suggest using a glue stick for bed adhesion, looks like the print never stuck. Did you calibrate after the build?

 

[Amish Rabbi]

Highly suggest using a glue stick for bed adhesion, looks like the print never stuck. Did you calibrate after the build?

The whole point of the expensive sheets is to not need things like glue stick and hair spray

especially with PLA I’ve printed 20kg in the last month and a half with no coatings in the sheets.

my new printer showed up today. I paid to have it assembled and it showed up like this

 

[RainmanTrail]

Highly suggest using a glue stick for bed adhesion, looks like the print never stuck. Did you calibrate after the build?

Ya, I calibrated everything. I've had a few successful prints now. I think the ambient temp in the garage is probably what caused my failure before.

 

[RainmanTrail]

I just finished printing the insert for the chip clamp setup. Came out great! It was a bit hairy/stringy on the back, but that stuff pulled right off. Is this more stringy than normal though? The print otherwise looks great. It's much smoother than I was anticipating.

 

[Amish Rabbi]

more stringy than my stuff for sure. my trays with all their tiny moves have less than that

you probably need to tune the retraction/wipe settings

 

[RainmanTrail]

Thanks again for making these available to print @One Eyed Dollar !

 

[Nex]

The whole point of the expensive sheets is to not need things like glue stick and hair spray

+1.
The only two agents you need for Prusa's flexible steel sheets are IPA alcohol and window cleaner. IPA always for the textured sheet, on the smooth sheet for materials with bad bed adhesion like PLA or for other material prints with very little print bed contact surface. Window cleaner for PET prints. No glue stick or hairspray needed.

my new printer showed up today. I paid to have it assembled and it showed up like this

I'd assume it's a very dangerous game of shipping an assembled printer across the globe. Too many stories of freight people that are into parcel football... The kits are more resilient to rough handling.

I'd contact Prusa support here, they'll probably solve it by sending you new copies of all broken printed parts and a discount for having to partially re-build your printer yourself despite buying fully assembled.

I just finished printing the insert for the chip clamp setup. Came out great! It was a bit hairy/stringy on the back, but that stuff pulled right off. Is this more stringy than normal though? The print otherwise looks great. It's much smoother than I was anticipating.

Depends on the material you use and the printed geometry. If you used PET, this is a perfectly normal result. The stuff simply is very stringy. The higher the printing temperature, the more, so you can reduce it a bit by printing at say 220°C instead of 230°C. On the other hand, keep in mind that printing with a lower temp reduces layer adhesion and hence makes the prints break more easily.

 

[Amish Rabbi]

it was a company in canada that assembled it for me, but I just used one of the other printers to re-print the part

I did get partial refund for the assembly service since as you say I did have to do a bunch of assembly myself lol. Also the Z axis motors suck to remove when the wiring is all strapped in place

 

[Amish Rabbi]

Did some temp rowers today. Cctree (my fav filament) on the left, esun pla+ on the right

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

Did some temp rowers today. Cctree (my fav filament) on the left, esun pla+ on the rightView attachment 430357View attachment 430358View attachment 430359

What are these?

 

[Amish Rabbi]

What are these?

It’s a file you print with each new filament to see what the best temps to use as well as how well it prints

 

[One Eyed Dollar]

What temps did you decide on? The two towers look similar.

 

[Amish Rabbi]

I think 210, I do 215 currently because that is prusa default

 

[Amish Rabbi]

3kg spools are cheap you say? Done!

 

[RainmanTrail]

3kg spools are cheap you say? Done!
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Whoa, that's a lot of filament. What are you printing?

 

[Amish Rabbi]

Whoa, that's a lot of filament. What are you printing?

My 18xx inserts. I’ve been going through 2kg of filament per week per printer for the last couple months making them. This was cheap and available (very important right now) lol. And less bits of spoils left over is nice

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

It’s a file you print with each new filament to see what the best temps to use as well as how well it prints

Very cool!

 

[One Eyed Dollar]

It lives!! After 2 months out of commission my Ender 3 is operational again! It was still under warranty, and they sent me a new motherboard and then a new heating cartridge and that did the trick. I'm glad to have 2 operational printers again. This one seems so tiny and so loud compared to my CR-10 V2 now.

Slug in progress.

 

[RainmanTrail]

These things are a lot of fun! Making some random stuff. Hardest part is deciding what to print next lol

Here's what I have so far...

 

[Amish Rabbi]

It lives!! After 2 months out of commission my Ender 3 is operational again! It was still under warranty, and they sent me a new motherboard and then a new heating cartridge and that did the trick. I'm glad to have 2 operational printers again. This one seems so tiny and so loud compared to my CR-10 V2 now.

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Slug in progress.

How loud is it? I only have experience with the prusa printers so I’m curious how loud others are that they praise how quiet the prusa is

 

[One Eyed Dollar]

How loud is it? I only have experience with the prusa printers so I’m curious how loud others are that they praise how quiet the prusa is

It's in my workshop, and I don't hear it with the door closed or upstairs. But when you're in the room with it, it makes some annoying whines and buzzes. My new printer is almost silent though except for the fans.

 

[Amish Rabbi]

Hmm, I hear motor moves on mine pretty easy but I’m also running it as fast as possible right now

 

[RainmanTrail]

Sweet! I designed my first part I decided to make a plate with only one row for the solo barrel chip flattener part that @One Eyed Dollar designed. It turned out great! I did the mockup in TinkerCAD, which is super easy to learn.

 

[One Eyed Dollar]

@AK Chip requested a "ribbed" version of the 43mm insert for the chip flattening rack so that 39mm chips would be centered the same as the 43mm blanks and not all to one side. Here is my mock-up print. Excuse the quick and rough print quality, and imagine that the 43mm black Muertos chips are the blanks.

Some slight tweaking and this one will be ready to go. Keep an eye out and I'll have the models uploaded and the new variation in my store soon.

And I can't think about the ribbed inserts without hearing Garth in my head.

 

[ReallyGoodUsername]

@AK Chip requested a "ribbed" version of the 43mm insert for the chip flattening rack so that 39mm chips would be centered the same as the 43mm blanks and not all to one side. Here is my mock-up print. Excuse the quick and rough print quality, and imagine that the 43mm black Muertos chips are the blanks.

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Some slight tweaking and this one will be ready to go. Keep an eye out and I'll have the models uploaded and the new variation in my store soon.

And I can't think about the ribbed inserts without hearing Garth in my head.

Hey I know those blue and brown chips looking as nice as ever!

 

[One Eyed Dollar]

The ribbed insert will be finalized soon, but in the meantime here's something else new. @jbriod requested a lengthened version of the card tray to fit on 43mm chip racks. This one is based on the Chipco 43mm rack, and hopefully other racks are a similar length. That is the only one I had available to measure, but I think it is pretty common.

So just stretching the card tray to fit the longer rack would have been boringly easy, so let's take advantage of that extra space! Below is a shortened mockup test print that I made last night. Both sides have a 65mm diameter recess and a 45mm diameter recess that overlap a little bit. This gives you a number of options for stuff that you can fit under the cards. Here are some possible combos:

• 64mm dealer button (e.g. Unique Enterprises 2.5" button) and a 39mm chip (for a card capper) or button (like All In or STFU )
• 60mm ceramic dealer button and a 43mm chip or button
• 60mm dealer button and a 39mm chip in an Air-Tite (no foam ring)

However, you cannot fit a large 64mm dealer button plus a large chip (43mm or larger) - it's too tight.

Of course this is just one of the possible layouts for the recesses below the cards. What other combos would you like to see? What other buttons or card cappers would you want to store under there? You could have two medium-sized circles for chips in Air-Tites with the foam ring or a 53mm MSK All In button. You could have 65mm+45mm on one side of the tray and two medium-sized circles on the other. What options should I try next?

 

[One Eyed Dollar]

The "ribbed for her pleasure" 43mm inserts for the chip flattening rack are now ready to go. I've updated my store and I've posted the models for download in the updated .zip file in this post:
https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/oeds-models-for-3d-printing-poker-stuff.50673/#post-1032795

Sorry it took a little longer than I thought to get that one finalized.

 

[One Eyed Dollar]

Card trays sized for 43mm chip racks are almost ready to add to the store. As I posted before, this allows for more space for extra buttons, like All In, Hi/Lo, card cappers, or whatever you like. I've created two options for the sizes of the recesses for the buttons. There's a 65mm/46mm combo that's great for a dealer button and something else. And a 56mm/56mm combo for two medium-sized buttons.

Each card tray has two sides, so you can pick the combos you want for the recesses to store what you want under the cards:

• 65/46 + 65/46
• 65/46 + 56/56
• 56/56 + 56/56

Here are some examples of what you can fit in the different options. (I printed some partial trays to test for fitment, and I used a cheap filament that I don't like for the prototypes, so the print quality is not great.)

65mm/46mm combo

Typical 60mm ceramic button and a 43mm chip:

Giant 2.5" Unique Enterprises button and a 39mm chip:

60mm button and a 39mm chip in an Air-Tite without a foam ring:

56mm/56mm combo

Two 39mm chips in Air-Tites with foam rings:

39mm chip in Air-Tite plus a 45mm button:

I'll model these in the different heights (regular cards, Faded Spade thickness, stackable, non-stackable) and with the different recess size combos. That's going to be a lot of different options! I need to finish those variations, print a full-sized example for photos, and add it to my store. I'll post the models then as well.

And my next project will produce even more variations of chip trays.

 

[One Eyed Dollar]

I've been doing a lot of modeling and test printing the last few days. Here's a sneak preview of the next thing: lids for card trays!

I made a miniature version for some little decks of cards that my kids have, so I can check the tolerances without wasting as much time and material printing full-size versions (a number of mock-ups have already made their way to the garbage). Who wants to play Old Maid??

The lids split in the middle and slide off to each side. There's a little nub that locks it in place so it won't slide open accidentally. The lids and the tray can be printed the same or different colors. I'm experimenting with different cutout windows in the lids so that you can see the cards if you like, or the lids could be solid for protection. I think a rectangle cutout would be cool to show off the cards or your custom cut cards on top of the deck, and suit cutouts would be fun.

The lid will only add 3mm to the height of the card tray, so hopefully it will still fit inside your birdcage or case.

Enough typing, how about some pictures?

 

[natumes]

Wow these are great, thanks for sharing! My neighbor just got a printer and has been making mini's for our D&D game, might have to see if he'll try these out for me.