About me

I have 25 years of experience as a manufacturing engineer working with a variety of materials from Aluminum to machinable Ceramics to high temperature nickel based alloys like Incolnel, for the aerospace, medical, and automotive industries, so I strive to produce quality parts. I am currently in school full time finishing up my Computer Science degree and could use some work on my printer to help pay my way :).

My current printer is a Rostock Max delta printer upgraded to a Mag/Ball joint setup for the rods.

I have printed a lot of PLA, ABS, T-glase, and have a very good setup for printing Nylon based filaments. I plan to soon change to a different hot end that will allow me to print with higher temperatures for even better adhesion between layers on the Nylon filaments.

I personally prefer to print at .1mm(.0039 inch) layers because of the great resolution when printing a part with many curves and flowing surfaces, but .2mm is much more economical especially for parts with square surfaces.
I prefer not to print higher than .2mm because I think it is too low of quality.

I cater more towards printing to solve problems and fix things. Some of my recent prints are a dipole antennae center piece with matching ends for stringing up a dipole antennae, a custom designed adapter for joining some optical gear I have, and a flexible Nylon fixture for squishing down and expanding back out to fit into a paint can and hold some electrical components I made for someone.

An .STL file would be a minimum requirement for printing something. Other file formats like IGES and others can be converted to STL if required.