Hands look awesome. I can imagine them either on top left and right sides near the front or on the two diagonal supports for front wheel. Or maybe not symetrical placement. We’ll probably need some single sections with a bone end and 6" tapered grip section. We will be working on the coffin wednesday nights and most sat afternoons and sunday nights till the race. Do we need to order more white filament?
Tomorrow sept 18 we will be working on brakes, adding a few diagonal braces, adding a push bar, and taking it for a few parking lot test runs. Still need to clean the flux off before powdercoating but we are getting close to that stage.
Match the U mounting shape of the rest of the bones and add a knuckle to one end. Knucke end doesnt need to be that big. Like maybe 1.5-2". Would need a flat area under the knuckle in case it is on top of a braze joint. I’m flying to phoenix, could talk after about 10am today
If you do that, could you please put a note in the bucket that says something like … Coffin Racer Parts (NOT TRASH). They take a really long time to print and I’d hate for them to disappear.
@CaryF300 Will and I bumped into Stephen Hatalla @SHatalla tonight. He can help print the rest of the bones but would need to get checked out on the Bambu printers.
Do we need to order filament to replace any of your personal filament and have enough to make the rest of the bones?
We do have white ABS plastic in the makerspace stash, I printed an unrelated part tonight using it.
I’ll need to know the procedure for billing filament use toward a project for the department rather than personal use, but I’m excited to start working on this!
@SHatalla if you are making a part for a makerspace committee project just use the filiment and no need to make a donation. We dont bill between committees.
Accurate … but it’s a nice courtesy to let the committee chair know about it - especially if it’s a fair amount of filament like these will be.
@Keith … FYI. Do you need us to order some more filament for the committee?
@SHatalla - Thanks very much for working on these. There is a spreadsheet in the committee drive that has an inventory of what we have and what we need. Please feel free to update it as you print things. The inventory sheet doesn’t happen to mention this, but most joints are comprised of two parts so that they can be printed flat on the build plate.
Ah, understood. Bubba is down right now, the print head isnt holding heat.
I’ll check with 3dfab to find out when they expect to have it back up.
Thank you!
Hey,
If you’re going to be printing a lot, please do order your own filament. We only keep a very small amount of white on hand, and we don’t usually keep colors other than orange, that white is left over from another project.
Yes, you’ll need to get checked out on the Bambuu. Jim and Max are both teaching so there’s usually a class every week or so (though Jim was out sick this weekend).
We are waiting on parts for Bubba and don’t have a firm ETA. Sorry about that. But if you’re in a hurry you might be able to use our new “conveyer belt” style printer. It’s not super wide, but you can do “infinite Z” prints, so something like an long arm might be fine. You should talk to Jim about that.
