You guys should really consider a YouTube section, or at least a weekly/monthly roundup article. Yes they’re all good, but I already subscribe to him and watched this a week ago. Maybe that’s an editing artifact, maybe a mistake.Īnyway, here we are again, posting every single Integza video as an article. I also couldn’t believe he left the glass bed on there, and in the video it looks like he did it AFTER seeing the heat trouble. He certainly should have waited to do this video until after he had the proper materials, but he claimed cost and time as prohibitive, but I’d say failure of such a magnitude is a quicker path to prohibitively expensive than just buying some thicker steel.

That quickly leaves the realm of cheap reprap style machines. A better working space would be airtight and filled with inert gas. Possibly calculable, possibly measurable, not desirable. However that system would also need to take into consideration the wear on the grinder and it’s diminishing distance from the working surface after each pass. He’d need to add a grind wheel to some sort of tool change system if he’s going to continue in that direction. Sometimes he’s going to get too much, others, too little. He has to grind, BY HAND, each layer after welding to remove the slag.

My thought was that this probably won’t ever work in any useful fashion in the direction he is going. Posted in 3d Printer hacks Tagged 3d printer, mig, mig welder Post navigation It’s not a new concept by any means, and results are typically rough, but it’s one we’d like to see developed further regardless. While a thicker steel base plate would help, it’s likely that warping could still happen with enough heat input so more engineering may be needed. Useful parts weren’t on the cards, however, with facing repeated issues with the steel bed warping from the heat of the welding process. However, with a new design that held the nozzle handle far from the hot end, the ersatz metal 3D printer was able to run for much longer. Unfortunately, early attempts failed quickly as the heat from the welding nozzle melted the adapter. A plastic adapter was printed to affix a MIG welding nozzle to an existing Elegoo Neptune 2 3D printer. The build is as simple as you could possibly imagine. ’s rocketry projects are one such example, so he decided to explore turning a MIG welder into a 3D printer for his own nefarious purposes. It’s a shame, because there’s plenty of projects that would benefit from being able to produce more heat-resistant metal parts with additive fabrication methods. Metal 3D printers are, by and large, many times more expensive than their FDM and resin-based brethren.

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