Buggy BAG Motors

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Kevin, I hope you were able to download the files successfully.

The spacers were printed on a Fortus FDM 400mc (Large, not that it really maters) from ABS-M30 Material. Technically the machine is 'Production Grade', but I'd imagine just about any printer could knock these out. Worst case would be that the printer doesn't hit the required accuracy - IIRC, the spacers out of the Fortus ran something like +/- .002 - so you might need to sand or tweak the parts a bit for a good fit.

Post was up in time, I was late. Working too late to finish up a project so I can play tomorrow, no time to warm up the printer and all that. It's a Stratasys uPrint. We rarely run it, so printing something is the involved process of booting and warming it up and reloading the material* and all that. By the time all that's done, even the smallest of parts takes an hour to print. So no spacers for me at LSR. If it's a problem, I'll print some out for Alamo.

*Thou shalt always unload the support material when not using the printer. And store it in an airtight bag. Otherwise it absorbs moisture and doesn't work worth crap. Some co-worker learned us that one, printing something and leaving the machine loaded. I found out several weeks later and it was already too late.