(03-18-2020, 09:48 PM)andrewjs18 Wrote: I got my shapeways tnnser in the mail today before I left for work.Yeah, hard to see much. Sad and hope you can get it sanded and sorted out.
I used the fine detail plastic for the base plate and top cap and the versatile plastic for the handle. everything looks very well printed, even the cheaper versatile plastic handle. I threw everything in my book bag to bring it into work with me to play with it there...
I did not get a chance to get the bolt & nut to attach the base plate to the handle. that aside, once getting to work, I started messing with the top cap and base plate. the tolerances are so damn tight that I had to use quite a bit of force to get the top cap to slide into the grooves in the base plate - I did not see anything in the way of excess plastic from the printing that would of prevented the two pieces from sliding together somewhat easily...
I ended up chipping a corner off of the base plate and it looks like on the one side of the top cap, there are some signs of stress being applied in the plastic. I'm still not sure if the top cap is fully seated into the base plate..and even if it is, I have no idea how I'm going to remove the top cap from the base plate to insert/remove a blade. I'm a bit nervous to even attempt doing so knowing how tight it was just to slide the top cap into plate without any blade installed as it is...not sure if I want to take the risk of slicing my hand open on the blade..
some photos...it's hard to capture decent photos with the fine detail plastic..
if you look at the left side of this photo here, you'll see the small chip I referenced earlier:
other photos. I don't think the top cap is fully seated in the base plate..
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