9 years, 10 months ago
I just wanted to start a thread to see how yall guys think about the new Bronze filament for FDM printers. I think it is pretty exciting that FDM are getting a taste of metal printing. I ordered a pound of it yesterday. I will keep yall updated on what my experiences are. Has anyone else tried it?
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Supposedly it has 80% bronze particles in it. You can sand it and polish it.
I do have the worry with the nozzles though!! Im worried about cogging up.
Another thing to throw out there is that it is pretty expensive for a spool. I ordered a pound and it came out to $71.00
Colorfabb seems to be doing a lot of testing so they may have checked this, but I would feel better with some quantitative physical properties listed.
It likely will be relatively brittle, but I have not heard any reports of nozzle damage. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some amount of erosion though.
As has been pointed out, it is not cheap. My speculation is that a lot of people will try it, then it will find a small niche of people who love it and use it all the time. For people that are paying that price for filament, the price of replacing an occasional nozzle will probably not be a major concern.
For those of you in the US, if you want advance notification for when we will get this stuff in stock to save a few $$ shipping, you can sign up to our mailing list here: http://www.printedsolid.com/the-full-catalog/
Standard PLA/PHA: 1.4g/cm**3.
Bronze: 8.5g/cm**3
Bronzefill: 3.9g/cm**3
Guess that's 80% by weight. Not by volume. I make it around 30% by volume.
The BronzeFill was initially during the month of June for pre-ordering.
I am happy to announce that production started this week and your order will be shipped later this week (we are shipping in batches, starting today). Rest assured that your order will be with you soon.
Sander
- Team ColorFabb
As you've found, Sander (their sales rep) is amazingly responsive, but if you're ever waiting on a s response, feel free to ping me on here. I'm in frequent contact with them.
Anyone in the US looking to order this material and save a little on shipping going forward, it has now been opened up to resellers. I have some on order and hope to have it in 3-4 weeks. Pricing is $99.99 for a 1.5kg spool and $67.99 for a 750g spool with $5.49/spool shipping and free shipping with a total order of $195 or up so you'll save a decent amount vs ordering from overseas. DM me if you want to claim one before they're formally put up on the site.
Clear spool. Standard size. Around 8" diameter and 2" wide. Inner diameter is around 4" and actual filament is, like 1/2" to 3/4" thick. Think about the amount where you'd usually say to yourself "Hmm. Better place an order for some more!" i.e. Doesn't look like much on the spool but it weighs plenty! :-D
I havent printed with it yet! But, just taking it out the box it feels interesting. I would think that it would be really hard, but it is rather soft.
How are you making out with the material? colorFabb has been sending out pics of users prints on their twitter feed. https://twitter.com/ColorFabb
The stuff from Bernhard Bauer is just insanely awesome (and miles above any level of talent I will ever have) but the Airwolf celtic skull looks awesome as well and doable for those with a little less artistic talent.
Its going to be about a week of printing
And the bloody DJ unplugged me because there was nobody dancing! Talk about professional jealousy!
http://thegreatfredini.com/scan-a-rama/
My rig comprises a 28 inch diameter motorised turntable, a modified XBox Kinect, a PC and the software to run on it.
I built the turntable out of 18mm plywood. Two payers for the turntable and one for the base. Fred uses a BBQ rotisserie motor a car wheel bearing and a bike inner tube. I used a car windshield wiper motor, 50 cedar wood balls running in slots routed into the bottom surface of the turntable and the upper surface of the base and GT5 toothed belt. It'll take two fully grown adults and has a full hex-bridge motor controller that allows me to set its speed. It'll turn a full rotation in 20 seconds up to 3 minutes.
The PC is an old game tower system running Windows 7 on a dual core Core i5 and a Cyclone GTX450 graphics card, a 1TB hard drive and a 128GB SSD drive. All sounds very high-tech I suppose but it's trailing edge as far as gaming is concerned. I can use my Mid-2012 13" MACBook Pro too and still get somewhere around 15 frames per second running Skanect.
Right now I'm using Skanect but have used ReconstructMe as Fred does. My preference kinda flips between the two and although you can use the demo software, I finally bit the bullet and bought the pro version of Skanect.
I've modded the Kinect with a dual laser ranging device that allows me to keep within the range of the Kinect and also a 3D printed handle so I can scan the model comfortably.
I'm still working out a couple of wrinkles so I can't really give you too much detail about the process as it's constantly evolving. Suffice it to say I'm basing it on improvements I've made to Fred's process, as documented in his YouTube videos.
Feel free to message me if you have any questions.
Cheers!
AndyL
I just bought a Xbox kinect and am going to try build something like that.
What are your experiences with Kinect-scanning?
Then I found out that you cant do it with the xbox one...yet....
You also cant return the xbox if it is open
(hopefully...)
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40278
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-AC-Adapter-Power-Supply-Cable-Cord-for-Microsoft-Xbox-360-Kinect-Sensor-New-/400542913671?pt=UK_Video_Games_Cables_and_Adaptors&hash=item5d4237d487
Shows under it. I wanted to see how well it will do without support. I probably could run it cooler. Makerbot normally runs everything kinda hot. I had it at a 220.
Also notice how shinny the bottom is where I chiseled it off the build platform. It kinda "Polished" it up. It was extremely hard to take off the build plate!!!
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2YRLG0L.jpg[/IMG]
Shows parts stuck and gold dust on the build plate
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bczwdxW.jpg[/IMG]
Showes the top of the print. It was done at a low res as well too hot. so the passes could not cool and stay flat.
It is heavy, and solid! I dont have all the sandpaper needed to polish it up, however, I did a little rough sanding on it and you can see the shine coming out.
I give it a 9/10
Be sure to post an image or two when you've polished it. I'll be interested too see how it turns out.
I'm looking into casting my 3DU's in bronze but don't expect many people will be keen on the cost as each one would cost me at least $150 to cast.
Polishing is a process. The best / easiest I've seen people use is putting it into a rock tumbler with drywall screws.
elpulpo, it is a pretty brittle material. Probably more like a metallic clay than a polymer. I don't think any filaments improve mechanical properties after printing.