Making of the SNX Hull

Scraggly

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The guy that I'm working with and using a lot of his machines. Has the wildest collection of just plain cool chit and cars trucks. His Dailey old smokey is a 38 just like it was pulled from the field with a 4bt diesel. The other a body dropped bagged 63. Sadly haven't made anything with my new one yet. To much design and print work Plus messing with old a$$. .lsp programming I get to figure out. I'm not a coder unless it's cam work.
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Don't have a pic of smokey. Love the Coe Chevy car hauler.
 
Scraggly

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Also more fit work done. So it's not completely high jacked.
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The turn nozzle was a 36 hour print that sadly went bad over night. More abs rushed this am and going a different approach this next print.

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Scraggly

Scraggly

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Nate_D said:
Dude what happened with the print? There's ABS everywhere lol didn't damage the printer did it?


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No printer is fine. One small slip when I was asleep. Caught it this morning when it still had 10 hours to go. I found a way to print in one piece but it didn't work. I'll do a two piece and use dowel pin construction like the plugs.
I just hate the waisted filament. But seems all these custom parts have a learning curve and what works for one doesn't for another. I'm growing and learning. Like to have a larger print bed within the year. Build by self this time and most the costly parts I can use from my printer. Already have ideas and some mental plans to go at least 254x254x254.
Sorry it's going to take longer then expected to ship, but if no rush I should be able to ship you everything first of the week. I got updated priority list. And already made prints for nozzles, and rings. Just need some shop time and get out of the office.
 
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jetskipunk said:
Still, doin fine work, @Scraggly!! :)
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Thanks. Little overwhelmed honestly. I work day and night and it's barely enough most days. But it's working and my wife couldn't be better about it. I got her this as a thanks you.
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She's the only reason this happened. Always been my dream, but was afraid. She gave me the courage and it's going great except I need about 48 hours a day now.
 
Nate_D

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Small update. Received a few more parts in.

Cable bracket holder
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Custom made all stainless steel trim cable
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Steering nozzle plug printing
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That's a 60 hour print. Running on our machine at work. Should be finished tonight.

Also aluminum bushings arrived today and the titanium hardware should be in tomorrow or Thursday. It's slowly coming together.


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Scraggly

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Box headed your way today as well and more being made tomorrow. It's coming together just fine. Been project managing for a long time and it always takes longer than you want it to, but to do it right takes time. And it's always worth waiting to perfect then rushing just to make a buck.
 
Vumad

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swaggggg said:
why does your work need a 3d printer lol
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It can already take hours to build a plug flange and do all the finishing work, before the time it takes to build a mold, then to build a part.

And those steps are the fast and easy ones.

Making composite plugs is extremely time consuming. Symmetry is the biggest problem. My hull would have been done long ago of it was so tedious trying to make everything perfect. 3d printing the base shape of the plug greatly reduces the work. Try to make something round like that nozzle being printed perfect to the half millimeter.

People don't realize he process required when they complain about composite parts.
 
Nate_D

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Exactly. Shaping parts like this by hand is nearly impossible. Designing them in a cad software package and then printing makes this possible. The clearance between the trim and inside of the steering nozzle is less than 3mm. The plug has to be extremely accurate, as well as my layup thickness. There is still at least 10 hours of work before I can spray the first drop of tooling gelcoat.

However I think swaggg was asking why my 9-5 has a 3D printer, not why I use one. We sell them. This is our demo unit for makerbot. Up until recently, it's been inoperable. They were having some issues with extruders, but it looks like that's all been resolved. Print quality is very impressive. As soon as I figure out how to get the nozzle plug off of the bed I'll snap some pictures.


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Nate_D

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To try to ease in the trimming process of each part I designed the plug with a flange that meets up to the contours I want on the steering nozzle. Instead of trying to trim out the sides of every nozzle, I can sand the back of the nozzle flat until the sides fall off. This is how I trim the reduction nozzle and the coupler covers. Far easier than trying to get accurate cuts with a cutoff wheel.

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Nozzle is absolutely massive. Wall thickness is going to be 0.3" so it should be pretty solid.


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MCrider

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You work for makerbot? That's sweet. We have one where I work and I work in a tool and die shop. We use it mainly for writting programs for our cmm. And of course printing phone cases and other toys.
 
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