I have a 3D printed plate in my head after a cranial ectomy surgery. The doctor said it dropped right in place. Held in place with titanium screws. Pretty cool.
@tatertime in 2017 , I developed a subdural hematoma, and by March 2018, I had to go in for emergency surgery. Had two craniotomies and one cranial ectomy in eight days to save my life. So, to replace the piece of missing skull, they sent special CT X-rays to a lab that specializes in 3D generated plates that fit perfectly where to missing skull. It was held down by several titanium screws.
I use 3d printing extensively in fab work and when I was Baja SAE, I would make bending dies, stamping dies etc like what you made but we also used them in our fixturing table for welding as sacrificial jigs and clamps to hold parts in weird ways so we could weld them, they’d melt after a while but it was the most cost effective solution for 1 off fabrication or even repeatable parts like control arms, just melt the jig and have multiple printed that are good to go
That's awesome! It's amazing what some of these prints will hold up to. I love those design competitions. I did SAE Formula Hybrid for my senior project in 2011 and it was so much fun. I wish we had the ability to 3D print stuff at the time, but almost everything was hand fabricated and machined on manual mills and lathes. I'll have to test out some 3d printed fixture table components.
I made a square tube notcher like that last month and it works pretty good. One extra feature I added was a hole in the center, so you can simply slide the piece through the tube and mark holes that are always perfectly centered 😉
Thank you for disclosing that you got the printer for free. So few channels are letting their viewers know that Bambu gave them a printer that it is concerning.
I make custom press brake dies pretty frequently, custom dimple dies, 15 degree increments for different size u mandrel cut fixture, fixture table angles that line up with the holes, fixture tabel tube standoffs at specific angles. 3d printing is a must in a fab shop!
for functional parts i recommend trying PC-PBT because on a Bambu labs it's really easy to print and also has really good strength and temperature resistance. For stuff like the vise grip adapter i would recommend TPU because you just cant fully destroy that material because it has a little flex.
I print jaws for my vices and have been using them with great success for my uses for about 2 years now. I have different ones with different "faces" like flat jaws, serrated, and my favorite kind which has half circles on each jaw to complete a circle to help hold metal rods in a vertical position but also can have the rod parallel with the jaws in the horizontal position. It's a lifesaver when I am working on things like bicycle wheels and rebuilding 3 speeds because they just need to hold the bolt in position without marring the surface. PLA+ is fantastic for not marring most of what I work with and I find it's made my shop a safer place because delicate things going into the vice are being held more tightly with less damage to surfaces so things I might have just tried to gorilla apart myself with two wrenches to avoid the vice altogether now gets put safely on the PLA jaws and disassembled with ease. Your mileage may vary but its a great use for ugly old PLA in my opinion, easy to design too
Thanks soo much, i have a metal work shop and i just realized that i need a 3d printer for the same issues and you give me more ideas and a justification.
For thin walled tubing, I would print a solid, cylinder insert to prevent the wall from being crushed. Place a flange on one end of the cylinder to prevent the cylinder from falling out of the tubing.
Suggestion for a rev. 2 of the consumables holder, put a small tray behind the nozzles to hold a few extra tungstens. Great video and thanks for sharing the ideas.
'Hassle Factor' This should be the #1 consideration for anyone buying a 3D printer to print things. The market is dominated by printers that require PhD 3D printer knowledge and countless hours. Bambu has made the iPhone of printers. I don't like the closed system and cloud requirements, but I like that it is easy easy.
I just picked up a P1S this weekend, and it’s like night and day compared to the Ender I had a few years ago. Definitely makes it easy to create a piece vs screwing around with settings for hours
@@maddesignsllc9407 I still have nightmares about getting a print to completion on the old RepRap I had years ago... The printers and software have come a long way in general. I got my Prusa MK4 a little while ago, and that's pretty much print & go as well, no fiddling around. The one thing I'm missing is the MMU (their version of the AMS); I don't do complex color prints but it's really handy for doing inlays, text on control panels and such. That's what impressed me most about the Bambu setup; Prusa's MMU2 never worked quite right, I haven't seen the MMU3 yet but the AMS looks like it just works. But like any maker's tool, you still need to understand its limitations, the materials you're working with and so on, to get the best results.
You don't have to use their cloud services, there's a local only mode you can easily enable on the printer. You can't use the app as that requires cloud, but Bambu Studio works fine locally. They recently announced that they're letting people put custom firmware on their machines, but you have to sign away support as they can't guarantee anything about the that the 3rd party firmware.
Try printing your forming tool so that it sits on the bed of the printer at a slight angel. You might need some supporting material but the Laminates will be at an angle to the pressures it will receive. Not my idea, I got it for a RU-vid video about making 3d printed boxes.
These are great examples on how one tool can complement another. I use both my laser and 3D printer for welding. Do you have any examples of fixture table jigs or clamps or ones that could be an aid to fab them? think fireball tools on a harbor freight budget 🙂
Wow, that is a pretty awesome tool. I can see the ability to fabricate parts like that being useful not only for use as tools but also as components of projects. For example, imagine those vise holders being bumpers on a frame, or .. well, I guess we are left only to our imagination. Thanks for sharing this with us, Tim!
Very nice projects Tim, thank you. Now all I have to do is get the drive and energy to haul out the welder and 3D printers and do things! Old man syndrome! LOL!
3D printer has been invaluable in my shop. I have been very happy with my X1C. I am thinking of adding a P1S soon. The AMS is one of the very best features.
One thing people new to 3d printing need to consider is orientation of printing and the strength of the print. 3d prints are weakest along layer lines, so one needs to orient their prints with this as a consideration
I'm super impressed with the AMS, though I haven't tried multiple materials on the same level. Even for changing filaments between parts, it's worth it though.
@@TimWelds I have been printing on my Prusa for a number of years and went with the X1C because of the enclosure so I could start printing in ASA. You have already encountered it but some material types are prone to shrinkage so when you are making tight fitting jigs you may have to compensate some.
For tools loaded purely in compression, PLA usually works great. It has really great hardness, and compressive strength. I've made press tools for forming up to .125 SS out of PLA. The Nylon-CF filaments get really useful when you need impact strength, or temperature resistance.
Do old dies, bead roller dies and brake press dies have been an extremely common 3D printed tool for over half a decade now. I’ve made many but never tried shapes like Star’s.
I've been using 3D printed parts for sheet metal spotweld and rivet fixtures, softjaws for CNC machining, and forming and bending thin sheet. I haven't bothered with ones meant for more serious welding in that I assume the heat would blow them out of shape in no time. But using printed parts for marking tubes and other parts, that's a good idea. Quick and easy templates.
Wow that printer works well and easy enough I might even be able to use it. Thanks for sharing the ideas. I was going through some of my own ideas for accessories for my fixture Table I just made. I actually thought when I came up with a couple "I bet that Tim Welds guy would use this". If they workout when I make them would you have any interest in me sending them? I would be curious of your opinion.
Just a thought on the custom jaws. Make them with magnets in them so you don’t have to bolt and unbolt the constantly. Just a time saver for ya. Great video. Thanks!!
Bet a small magnet set just behind the inner diameter on that angle gauge would be handy. Maybe even in the notching templates if you can find a magnet with good balance between holding still while marking & sliding on/off easily
Nice vid with cool tools. I love making tools with 3D prints :) A tip for color 3d Printing: when you have change only on top as your degrees gauge do not use purge tower. It will work fine and save u so much filament and time
Great content. Finally someone who uses it like a real tool. I'm sick of seeing people make toys or little things for their house or office. That's fine if that's all you do, but it has way more use than that. I've got a bambu p1s, I use it for on the farm and my weld shop. Great for making parts and trying stuff out that would take to long to make with the welder. Intake stuff. Little parts for livestock gates. Sprayer parts The listgoes on.
you know what would make a better tubing notch template? the same, but with one heat insert and a grub screw to fasten it. the deformation should be less than the shakiness of the human hand. the rest is already perfect.
Excellent uses for a 3D printer; it is truly amazing to see the number of first-world problems that they can solve. On another note, I also have a Bambu X1C and they are a fantastic printer.
Love your tip on centre to centre spacing! Have you seen the fractal vices people are 3d printing to use with odd shaped objects? Adam Savage uses one to grip a glass coke bottle and cuts a hole it! His fractal vice is metal though.
These are great! It reminds me I can make jigs for a project I have coming up that would benefit from precise hole alignment. It would be really cool to integrate a cam lock system to the marking jigs to hold them in place while drawing the lines! It’d be hard to program into JSCAD for the round tubes but the square tubing should be easy enough?
I keep thinking about getting a 3D machine. But I’m paralyzed at what to get. I really need more than the effective 250 x 250 x250 this machine does. Since the CEO said, when interviewed last year, that they were coming out with a bigger, new technology model, supposedly this year, it’s frozen my plans.
10 inches does fill up pretty fast. I got my first printer about a decade ago with a huge build volume and it cost twice what this one does today. While it was good for the time, it needed so much fiddling to get decent parts that I rarely used it. I feel like the technology has finally advanced to a point you can just load a model and walk away letting it run with confidence that you'll have what you intended on the first shot without a bunch of offsets and such.
@@TimWelds that’s very true, my problem is that I’m living in a world of fantasy. What I really want is a metal printer. I can get the printer. It’s expensive, but manageable. But then a sintering oven. That’s assuming it’s not a process that needs a special wash step. All of a sudden the $15,000, or so, turns into $40,000 to $60,000 and that’s just way too much. I could get a nice CNC mill for less than that.
Coud you print the table with with holes as seen in the video and some fixtures to screw in and hold pipe fitting projects? Like the table u have in video
I’ve used my 3D printer to verify dimensions of products I sell such as winch or light mounts. I also have a TIG consumable holder as a free download and physical product. I have a few more ideas as well.
It depends on the version you're trying to run. The problem I've run into is that the sites that host it keep shutting down. I googled and the original version is hosted here: neorama.de . The code will work there. I'd like to set up something that I host myself, but I haven't had the time.
Got to be honest, that Bambu Labs printer looks like it absolutely crushes it, and if 3D printing were that quick and easy I might even make the effort (my current printers - a bed-slinger Anycubic Chiron and an FLSUN delta - sit unused).. but at £1400 for the printer it would need to be printing me cash! :(
3d printing isnt much of a hassle once you have it down. I find ut ti be much more accurate than my plasma table, is cheap too run, and as you have found, a lot of utility can be found I have a gantry cnc that is a aluminum cutting machine.. and its built from square steel stock and 3d printed parts. Obviouslly the motion stuff is linear bears snd ball screws.. but it shows how versitile it can be
I seen horror photos online of using abrasive filament with the AMS. Just everything it touches worn through with deep trenches. Bambu Labs says to avoid using it however they say their PAHT-CF (the filament your using) is formulated to work with the AMS. How do the areas the filament comes in contact with look? Any signs of wear?
I was worried about that as well, but their website said this one is AMS compatible so I gave it a shot. I don't see any wear so far, but I haven't even run a full spool of it through so time will tell. If I end up doing a lot of it, I'll probably just hang the spool and feed it manually to avoid potential problems.
Hey Tim, great video! Would you be able to share the fusion 360 file for the dimple die? Want to design some my self and looking at your file would help alot. Cheers man
Thanks for the question! I don't have any way to provide certification with the online courses. My courses are really a faster way to learn the basics and that is all that a lot of people need for general fabrication, repair, maintenance and hobby work. It can be a great start toward a career, but isn't sufficient to be a qualified welder. An in-person welding school can provide that level of training. For just about any qualified welder job, you'll need to pass a qualification test with the company based on their codes and standards as well as the required materials, joints and positions when you start. If you have any other questions, please reach out with an email on the course website because with the volume of comments I get channel wide, I may not see comment responses.
If you use carbon fiber filament for longer use in the ams it will wearout faster Also bambu labs doesnt recommend carbon fiber filament when using the ams 😁
