Brian Hicksgood news: the bearings all fit in the clock base, which means I tuned the expansion settings right on this 9-hour print. š
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good news: screws fit perfectly in the ratchet and pawl. Amazing clicky noise but I canāt get a video uploaded for some reason? #BrianMakesAClock
bad news: some of the first parts I printed had the wrong material expansion settings and theyāre too big. Gears mesh but push each other off their posts. Yeesh. Gonna have to re-print at least some of the gearsā¦ might be all of them. š¬ #BrianMakesAClock
Wellllll these adjustments donāt appear to have worked. Super stringy. I probably need to back off the material expansion settings! This is supposed to have a 11-tooth gear post on top too, but it completely failed to print. #BrianMakesAClock
for comparisonās sake, hereās the same model with too-high and too-low expansion settings. Too much adjustment leads to holes and structural issues, while too little means that all of the dimensions of the gear are too big in the horizontal planes.
AH HA! NO! Turns out in my slicer settings I said I was using 2.85mm diameter filament, but it's 1.75mm diameter. Still gonna print a calibration cube test with the change before I do another hour-long gear.
the reason I'm having to re-tune everything, by the way, is that I discovered the manufacturer of my 3d printer went out of businessā¦ so THAT'S why the slicer software hasn't been updated in like 5 years! I got Prusa slicer working with it, but there's no pre-made profile so I'm having to start from scratch (ishā¦ there's a random GH repo with some settings.)
the gear print finally worked! (dance dance yeah!) Gonna have to do the next ones in the chain before I can show anything more than "lol here is another picture of a gear" but promising so far! #BrianMakesAClock
Victory! āļø #BrianMakesAClock
the kid and I made some good progress today. Colored the faces with crayon rubbing and assembled a couple more parts of the gear chain! #BrianMakesAClock
Oh hey, we accidentally made a nice triadic color scheme! #BrianMakesAClock #3dprinting
Today we went from ārandom pile of gears on the tableā to āan actual clockā! #3dprinting #BrianMakesAClock
