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 The 3D PRINT FARM

As at the start of play - August 2020 - there were 3 printers in the "Farm";
comparative cat Creality Ender 3. An FDM printer;  reasonably fast, prints largish models but with low quality in that layer lines are always visible. The cat takes 5 hrs 14 mins on this machine. The cat is 112 mm x 126mm. (4 1/2  inches x 5  approx.)  FDM printers use plastic filament which is melted and laid on the Build Plate in lines which draw out the layer being laid. The printer has to draw every bit of each layer before moving on to the next.
Creality's logo is a stylized dragon's head, so this was called the dragon ... and more recently, Old Faithful !
Ender 3 FDM Printer






Have now added a second printer; GEEETECH A20M; a two colour printer, mixing colours at the hotend so can print a variety of colours so long as they are either the colour on the left reel, the colour on the right reel or a blend of the two.
Another FDM printer like Old Faithful but with a slightly larger build plate.
Clogging problems meant it was out of action for the first couple of months and has proved somewhat unreliable.
A20M


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