I tried to bowl with a 3D-PRINTED Bowling Ball 

RIP 3D Ball. He was a good little lad💔

2:58- The ball looks like a green colored Ike Broflovski from "South Park".

Gave me an idea, maybe 3d print different cores for your future homemade bowling ball(s) experiments!

What you could do is print the ball with very sparse infill, such as 5% and pause the print before it finishes, this can be done automatically in the slicer depending on which one you use. You can then fill the ball with resin or something and then let it finish, so long as the supports are secure it shouldn’t fail. 3D printing would be quite good for moulding. Note that when doing this you need to keep the top few layers clean so it can continue to print on them, otherwise it won’t work. Gyroid infil also works best for this. The holes also need to be sideways so they are fully formed before the printer pauses. Also, materials like TPE could give the ball a rubber like surface which might make hook. You should be able to make that on a Neptune 3 max line yours.

I appreciate the first attempt to reduce the cost of my bowling ball addiction.

RIP 3D ball, what a life it lived, thru hell and back was always reliable

“On pace to shoot 10” I about pissed my pants!!

it is midnight and im watching someone bowling with a 3D printed bowling ball.

What % was your infill? 5%? lol. Might have to do it again at 50%, 75% and 100%. Awesome

Well looking on the bright side you probably have the highest score with a 3d printed ball so far

WoW sound in the start of the video! love it

"A" for effort Michael.....cracked me up...."I SHOT 3"....haha.... at least your creative and really trying to draw people into bowling....thumbs up man!!!

Turned a bowling ball into a Pac-Man

3D and I went way back. I remember when he first came in excited to learn the sport.

this proves i will watch anything...lol

Imagine you just attached a fishing line to the ball so you could just reel it back 😂

It was definitely worth the effort. I second 3D printed pins as well next time 👍🏼

3 pins with a less than 1 pound ball... sounds like a perfect game to me lol

try solid printing it lol. takes a ton of filament but would be based and fine funny

😂 try it again, but fill it with resin 😁

You can print the next ball with TPU-HS filament. They certainly won't break.

Now its time to resin print a bowling ball!

The double curve ball putting up pro scores compared to the 3D printed ball lol

That ball was special-RIP. Looked like a smiley face when opening and closing the crack!

Fill it with resin like your homemade bowling balls.

So between 3d printing and resin, you could create a fully custom ball.

You did it!

I love this idea! So from the intro of the video you can see light passing through the ball right? This means your wall thickness is really low maybe 0.8mm-1.2mm. Wall thickness is the most significant factor for strength. For a model like this, I'd probably want a wall thickness of 3-4mm. I'd go denser on the infill percentage as well, 40-50% or even higher. The infill pattern matters as well. This looks like the Gyroid pattern which isn't known for strength. Try the Cubic or Grid infill pattern. Another big thing is the material. This is probably PLA, a better material would be PETG or you can get PLA+ or Super PLA. I'd love to see a V2 of this!

If you want to give this another go you need to increase your outer walls and infill density or go for broke and print it 100% solid, but that will cost about the same as a regular ball

Bro, what you've gotta do is use that 3d printer to print some custom molds with exact dimensions for your future custom balls

This montage song never gets old. I actually added it to my downloads lol

I haven't laffed that hard since the hot chip challenge.

Cool video tech bowling ball Michael

Great Flex Glue test! Slather both halves with the stuff. See how long it holds up...

Went out like a legend..... I can only hope to have a similar fate.

Hahaha great idea !

Would be interesting to see if it still would hold up at like 80% infill so its more solid. Would still be pretty lightweight though.

do the next 3D printed bowling ball with 100% infill so it has more strength

Is it possible to inject resin into the printed bowling ball, like filling the internal structures?

Ball looking like Ike 😮

I'd love to see this done printed with 100% infill. You'd probably have to order a couple of 5kg spools of filament but it's totally doable.

Not gona lie, I love your content hahaha

Even a pocket shot would have knocked down at most 3 pins. The ball would have been shattered into dozens of pieces. Another example that 3-D printing is overrated.

best video ever

RIP 3D Ball 2024-2024

Brings a whole new meaning to a shot a 3 last night lol

Perfect 3!

Yes the WOW quest sound after the ball was printed!

Based on how that split. It was a low infill and a strange infill pattern. Retry with 100% infill (itll only take like 8 days)

Need to try one with 100% infill😁

How about a 3d printed core that you can add something to it to make it heavier, then put that in a resin ball :D

Prayers for you and your family 😢

Ball died how any of us wants to go out, 69 😂

If OSHA saw this it would immediately get them in trouble

It looked canadian in that moment. 😅 Edit: why didn‘t you print it in full? Would have been a lot of filament needed, but definitely more sturdy.

Nice!

Ball Looks like a Canadian South Park character

Thats gotta be a World Record tho

Wow! No wonder lane maintenance people are killed every year. That machinery is scary... But you did just prove that lighter balls hook more. Smallwood dropped to 14 lbs and is not looking back.

PAC-MAN VS BOWLING PINS = END OF VIDEO. 😂

RIP Terrance and Phillip bowling ball.

Hucking Filarious.

You should surface the track flare of the bowling ball only, you know, for a video idea.

Open it put a core in it and polish it.. good as new

Saddest death in anime history

Next time you should keep a hole at the top and weigh it down with steel BBs

Exactly at 2:20 it looks like a green Pac-Man

His backswing is way lower with a 3d printed ball lol

Why did you print the ball with such a low density.

Would it work to print the ball and then fill with resin or something?

"I shot 3" lol

3d print with a housing to hold a core then put that 1inch apoxy all around polish it and show us.. cmon go 100% on one of these!

Not a fair fight. This ball weighs like 1/4 as much as one pin. The only logical next step is to 3D print ten pins and try again.

Okay hear me out. combine 3d printing with a core from another ball but also make the 3d print 5% smaller and resin coat the outside.

The Bad news is you shot 3.. the good news is that im pretty sure its 3pins higher than anyone else ever shot with a 3d printed ball

Take the 3D printed ball, that's broken. Fill it full of epoxy. Put it back together and it will weigh more and be stronger

Bowling ball is now Canadian....

Make it full infill. It will be the right weigh and hit hard

What was the infill on that print lol?

Print the ball with low infill then fill the rest of the ball ith resin.

Do it again. More infill

2:01 You expected it to hook??

I'm just shocked you didn't yeet the ball into the ceiling. But hey, do you have the world record for the highest game thrown with a 3D printed ball? Or do you actually have to finish the game?

Womp womp wommmmmp.....

I’m pretty sure no one has thought of that yet

Moment of silence to the hardest working ball on the chanel……………🙏🏻

Highest game ever bowled with a 3D printed ball

Come on, Man!!!!!

3D printed ball... Conclusion: it can't take the impact. Good content though

Real bowling balls are made from resin/rubber (coverstock) with a metal core inside followed by a filling material, 3d printer filling is not stronger resin thats why it broke.

Print a ball with 100% infill

make with a stronger plastic lol

We all miss u

I genuinely think that you could make a ball mold with that printer.

Rip greeny

Do it pets and 100% infill. May take a week but may last longer

You tried!!

Hope I go out with a 6-9

Make another and fill the inside with epoxy, will give weight and strength…hopefully

yoo man i feel like you are on to something and i like it a lot. hope we can get in contact.