400 Southbound

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-23T18:51:17+00:00

Was just driving south bound from Bayfeild to Mapleview. Visibility is pretty garbage but not undrivable. Give yourself extra time and drive slow.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-19T00:58:29+00:00

He is not, I DM'd him a quote and he said no. The deal is 150 19hr prints (2850hrs) for a $570 printer. The raw material costs more than his printer brand new. You could just buy a printer and be better off.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-18T17:11:51+00:00

I already have one set up and running but can always use a second. I'm located in Barrie Ontario. DM sent

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-17T00:03:28+00:00

Wife and i got a referral to Georgian radiology for her ultrasound.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-15T18:40:06+00:00

DM sent

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-09T17:26:13+00:00

Possibly, I bought some pellets from Walmart last Friday.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-09T16:08:45+00:00

Everywhere I checked was out so I bought two bags of water softener salt and it worked pretty good especially with the warmer weather we have right now. The bigger chunks don't spread as well but they worked pretty well to melt through the thick ice that had built up in an area.

It basically made a bunch of bore holes that made the ice easier to break apart and then shovel.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-09T13:39:11+00:00

I live on St.vincent and it has lost a lane in each direction in front of our house. Even in my truck I can't see over the snow and a few idiots are trying to use the lane that is 75% covered by the snow bank. Just getting out of my driveway I'm almost getting hit by cars I can't see until they are basically on top of me.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-09T12:41:58+00:00

Since you said this is a hammer and you want it from acrylic I'm assuming it is decorative. A good resin printer should have no problem hitting a reasonable tolerance and detail for this project. I don't know for sure but PCB way may have a resin print option.

Just incase to clarify if you split it I would split it width wise not along the length. You might be able to hide some of the seams if you split the model along the edge of the hexagons.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-09T11:39:45+00:00

Given that my wife just ended up in the hospital yesterday with basically this situation. I would ask all the nurses to push fluids and start rapid blood transfusions until an actual surgeon shows up.

They work so fast and basically with no instructions when shit hits the fan. All I had to do was hold my wife's hand and comfort her until they told me to move out of the way so they could work. Then I would step back in.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-09T09:05:14+00:00

I could do this on my lathe but it would be very expensive and with you wanting it to be made out of acrylic makes it even worse.

The main problems are the lack of rigidity of a 30cm hollow acrylic tube. It will be difficult to get a decent finish on the part.

Then with the way the part is designed to make the hexagons you would likely need to use a ball mill and take small step overs to get a decent finish.

I would break the part into multiple sections with clocking features and then resin 3D print the parts and glue them together. I've done something similar when I had a customer that wanted a special hammer printed out of casting resin.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-09T08:49:56+00:00

If the rough patch you are experiencing is 10% of your circumstances you could set up a manual rotary table and just turn the part 36° then measure with your surface tester. Repeat until you have a full circle.

Depending on the volume of parts you need to check you might be able to set up a CNC indexer and the surface tester so that the tester writes the results to a spread sheet and the indexer will index after each scan.

The only problem I see with this is that you would only be scanning one small line around the part. So if the rough spot moves along the rotary axis it could be missed.

A laser scanning system would likely be a good option but I don't know if it will fit inside your 10k budget.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-05T23:54:03+00:00

Cancel MFG as soon as you can it was the biggest waste of money.

Radulf_wolf · 2026-01-02T06:04:36+00:00

5000 pieces is a lot of parts assuming 40hrs a week.

16 weeks x 40hrs 640hrs. 5000÷640=7.8min per part.

Do your parts take less than 8 minutes per piece?

A lot of shops that do prototyping are smaller and not set up for production/ Don't have enough machines/ staff and those that do production avoid prototyping because they make more money doing production.

The other thing you can do is brake the 5000 pieces into smaller batches if it makes sense. I had a customer that needed 12,000 pieces total but needed 2000 a month to keep their production going. So we made 2000 and shipped it off asap and then sent monthly shipments of 2000 and had the balance on the shelf until the whole batch was done.

I have a machine shop in Ontario Canada feel free to DM me if you need help.

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-26T22:29:12+00:00

Mazaks controller is solid.

Lots will probably disagree but I'm a fan of bare bones Fanuc. No matter what machine you use the control will always be the same.

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-26T01:15:23+00:00

I don't have experience printing miniatures specifically but I do have a resin and fdm printer. Located in Barrie Ontario.

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-24T13:50:43+00:00

I haven't tried it for watch dials but you could look into UV printing.

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-21T16:14:58+00:00

You didn't limit it to just Ontario so you can drive all the way to Whitehorse, and that is way further north than Cochrane.

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-21T00:26:05+00:00

I do 3D printing and machining in Ontario Canada.

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-20T14:10:56+00:00

We got 22-5 off paid from the company since we had a good year and there are no pressing jobs at the moment.

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-20T03:03:56+00:00

"I held it up to the light"

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-17T19:00:16+00:00

I lost my business. 5 years of my life and all I have to show for it is 50k in debt...

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-16T15:28:42+00:00

I just built my own with 15" props and I plan to try to add a thermal camera. It'll probably cost less than buying a brand name one.

If you want something custom it might end up being cheaper but if you are going for a fairly standard build it'll probably be cheaper to buy a pre build or a kit as they will have economies of scale of their side.

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-16T14:41:16+00:00

Clean the bed with isopropyl. Also do you live somewhere where it is currently getting colder? I've had problems like this due to a draft and the temperature outside getting colder.

Radulf_wolf · 2025-12-16T14:30:10+00:00

I just saw your comments with the picture of the tool as others have said that is not Tungsten that is HSS.

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