RCU Forums - View Single Post - 3D Printing
Thread: 3D Printing
View Single Post
Old 07-03-2021, 09:26 AM
  #172  
spinnetti
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Verona, KY
Posts: 139
Received 24 Likes on 17 Posts
Default

Thanks! Definitely more fun being a designer and maker instead of a consumer, but some engineering skill helps. The overall design/build is really going well. This is my first tank, but I think I've got the hang of it - very little rework or adjustments have been required, mostly just running a little looser fit tolerances due to the impreciseness of 3d printing. Quite happy how its going. I got the hardware, but still no bearings. Keeping that printer humming, trying various printer settings and orientations to get the wheels to come out acceptably. I've got a very novel way to join the upper and lower hull that should make it super stiff - I won't spill the beans until I prove it out first but won't be like any other.


Last edited by spinnetti; 07-03-2021 at 10:00 AM.