OMG! I was just considering making a small chest for the remote controls with wooden filament but the high cost it would have had me in doubt. Your trick about using cheap one on the inside is a great trick! Great job and thank you!
That finishing technique for the wood PLA turned out great. I also use that stainless steel pin media for wet tumbling brass cases for reloading ammunition. Even the most corroded and carbon fouled up cases come out looking brand new and shiny. The trick at least with reloading ammo is a generous squirt of dawn dish soap and about a teaspoon of lemishine which is a dish detergent booster to prevent hard water deposits. It is basically citric acid and helps to polish the cases and remove harder deposits. Maybe a bit of lemishine with the brass and bronze parts would shine them up a bit dish soap may also keep the gunk from sticking to the prints.
Woah! I didn't even realize that chest was 3D printed at first ... I mean, I'm sure it looks less realistic in person, but I had no idea 3D printers could do this sort of thing!
Thank you. It actually looks even more realistic in person. Everyone at work thought it was wood. Unfortunately one lady thought the key was real bronze too and turned it so hard that she broke it off in the lock.
That bit with the Alexa at the beginning made me laugh so hard for some reason 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Great video, though! This is something I actually want to try out!!!!
Best Wood post processing vidéo i've Seen so far. English is not m'y native language so can briefly explain to me how exactly thé tumbler is working and... Its original purpose ?...
The tumbler works like a clothes dryer. It scoops up the parts and drops them over and over again. My father used to metal detect (finding coins underground). He used the tumbler for cleaning the coins by adding small rocks with the coins and letting them tumble for an hour or two. It is useful for anything that needs to be polished, cleaned, or smoothed.
Yes, it is pretty nice in person too, although the parts I printed with it just didn't look right for the chest, so I may have to stick with the real brass and bronze.
Thank you. I always feel sorry for Hephaestus, the poor crippled bastard. He doesn't get a lot of notoriety these days. Perhaps because of his unwieldy name.
This was awesome, really helpful! I just ordered a spool of wood PLA and I will definitely use your tips for finishing the prints. I won't bother with the metal filament though. Seems like a hassle and not really all that useful. I hope we get metal 3D printers for home use eventually!
I have a brass tumbler for shell casings, it has walnut husk polishing media in it. Does anyone have experience using that to polish these plastic and metallic parts ?
Thank you so much. The wood is from MG Chemicals Wood PLA and can be found on Amazon. The steel is Protopasta Magnetic Iron PLA. The brass and bronze were ColorFabb BrassFill and BronzeFill PLA.
Thats awesome! I want to dive into wood and metal filled filament post processing soon and this helps me a lot as it answers some questions I had. Do you think that metal polish also works with making the parts shiny? Thanks for the video. Cheers! Say hi to Alexa from me. ^^
Hey there Rod. I think a product like Brasso could work well in giving it a wetter, shinier look but that is one thing I have not tried yet. I did try an aluminum polish once (because that is all I had on-hand) but it did not work the way I had hoped, but I think it was really the wrong product for the job. Thanks for watching. Alexa says, "Who is Rod Snyder? Tell him hi or whatever. Are you still on the computer. You really need a life."
Sorry, I thought I mentioned them in he video. The wood is from MG Chemicals Wood PLA and can be found on Amazon. The steel is Protopasta Magnetic Iron PLA. The brass and bronze were ColorFabb BrassFill and BronzeFill PLA.
I think the Egyptian god P'tah (god of artisans and craftsmen) predates the Greek ones, so he may be the original maker ;-) Good video with useful information. I liked, I subscribed, but I bought Svetlana's book instead. ;-)
Are they really that expensive? I guess most of that is labor costs and probably company overhead since the demand for these is probably quite low and they obviously last for some time.
