3d Printed Scales for QSP Penquin
3d 7h ago by midwest.social/u/Bigboye57 in pocketknife from midwest.social
As is tradition I am going to give you a bit of a story here. While I may not be as eloquent as Dual hopefully I can get half the charm.
My old man is an engineer coming up on the end of his career and has lived working with CAD of some flavor for the majority of it. This past Christmas to his fatherly discontent the kids got him a Bambu Labs PS1. Even with is himing and hawing about it being too expensive and he was not ready to use it, it got the ball rolling. Come the tail end of February he has a standing desk, dual monitor, a Dell refurb with a Nvidia fancy ECC GPU that I told him is overkill....yet he got bit by the bug which I am greatful for. Warms my heart to see the old enginerd excited.
Now, time for the part that is actually pertinent to this sub. He has been having fun learning his new software and tools so I asked him to print me some new scales for my Penquin as I was not a fan of the tan ones I ordered. I am a big fisherman so he learned how to create textures and what you see is an attempt at fish scales. It took a bit of manual filing in some areas as he is a perfectionist and wants the tightest tolerances. Then the small buttons that actuate the sliding lock(press fit) are too tight of tolerances for the PS1 so I might try another solution there or even leave it as is.
If anyone is interested I am sure he would be tickled pink that others are using his design so let me know and I will pass them over. Just be ready to do some minor filling, although I will give him notes so he can update the files, fingers crossed yours will fit even better.
As a last note, I have some DCM I was planning on attempting some vapor smoothing on PLA with. I have a degree where I took plenty of chemistry and slung around my fair share of nasty solvents in labs so I will take the correct precautions so my progeny have the correct amount of digits. But if anyone has experience here I would take any insight as I tested on some BambuLabs silky PLA and the results were ok but not stellar.
The main image is my attempt as a sexy photo, but here are a couple more simple ones.
I wondered when this was going to become a thing, I have an Emerson that I can't find cool scales for hopefully someone starts making a business out of this.
Swap the nozzle to .2mm should make a difference. They are cheap too.
Okay, this is awesome. You beat me to it!
One suggestion I'll make is not to use PLA for the final product. If you do (you already did), stay on top of keeping your screws tightened. PLA cold creeps which will release the tension on the heads of your screws over time, which will loosen them and they'll fall out.
How I know this: I already lost a screw from under one of the 3D printed scales on my Böker.