Anyone have a 3-D printer?
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I'm interested! Do you have any files you've found for them yet?
@lmm1967 & @urbanknight both have printers.
Found these.
www.thingiverse.com
www.thingiverse.com
Coral Frag Rack Foot by tklb
This is a foot that can be used with standard egg crate to make custom Frag Racks. Print with ABS or some other Reef Safe Filament ONLY. If the fit isn't snug enough you can use a bit of superglue gel to glue the feet into place.Feet are 1/2" in Diameter by 1-1/4" tall, and hold the frag rack...
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Frag tank egg-crate support by d3zd3z
These supports hold up the "egg crate" grid in our frag tank. This grid has a 16mm spacing on the grid. Print with something like PETG to be fish-safe.
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Challenge is printing with a reef safe material - my printer prints fine with PLA. PLA is reportedly not 100% reef safe and may break down after some time. ABS is reef safe but gives off obnoxious (and not all that safe) fumes while printing. I've messed with PETG filament which is reported to be reef safe but it likes to plug in the hotend I have on my printer.
I'll see if I can mess around and get one of these to print with PETG - it'll probably be at least a week before I have time to mess with it though.
I'll see if I can mess around and get one of these to print with PETG - it'll probably be at least a week before I have time to mess with it though.
I could see needing several dozen of them in varying heights myself, probably closer to a gross or more.
That's gonna be a lot for someone to do at home. Maybe we should look to split an order online?
Very easy to edit - not a big deal at all.
Checkout tinkercad.com - its online, its free and it works just dandy for this type of stuff.
I like to use a minimum of 4 per rack but prefer 5. My 60 frag has 2 sets of 4 racks. So that's 40 right there.
The 2 troughs being 7x3 will most likely need 6 per rack because of the extra foot in width. If I go with 5 16"x 30" racks that's 20 racks, 120 posts. Whew, that's a lot. I'm months away from needing them though.
The 2 troughs being 7x3 will most likely need 6 per rack because of the extra foot in width. If I go with 5 16"x 30" racks that's 20 racks, 120 posts. Whew, that's a lot. I'm months away from needing them though.
Glad to see you found a solution!
We have about 30x 3D printers at my work; and they’re free for my use, and personal projects encouraged. But mostly it’s all PLA, resin, and other materials. I know that ABS is somewhere there, but it would be a bit of work to swap everything out.
That said, I’m accumulating a folder filled with reef related prints. So when I do go through that effort of swapping out PLA for ABS, I can print a lot all at once.
We have about 30x 3D printers at my work; and they’re free for my use, and personal projects encouraged. But mostly it’s all PLA, resin, and other materials. I know that ABS is somewhere there, but it would be a bit of work to swap everything out.
That said, I’m accumulating a folder filled with reef related prints. So when I do go through that effort of swapping out PLA for ABS, I can print a lot all at once.
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This whole thread is what I love about ARC. Imm1967 you seem super nice. I hope I get to meet you at the ARC meeting coming up.
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He is a cool dude! Helped me out big time when I was upgrading tanks. LOVE this community!!!
--Ron
I'll have some clear PETG a couple other parts I've been meaning to upgrade on mine - I'll try to mess around this week or weekend and see if I can get this material to play nice.
If any of you are SUPER bored - below is a time lapse video of one of my previous attempts at printing PETG - the corners end up lifting and then I think I was cooling to quick and the layers don't adhere once you get a centimeter or 2 off the print surface.
All due to me not taking the time to sort out the best settings.
If any of you are SUPER bored - below is a time lapse video of one of my previous attempts at printing PETG - the corners end up lifting and then I think I was cooling to quick and the layers don't adhere once you get a centimeter or 2 off the print surface.
All due to me not taking the time to sort out the best settings.
Have you tried using a glue stick to help adhere your filament to the plate better? This is what we use to prevent this issue.
