Get into the world of machining and also you’ll shortly discover one thing: every thing is product of very heavy iron or metal. Every thing. There’s a good purpose for that and it’s rigidity. Standard knowledge says that 3D-printed elements don’t belong in a machine store, however is that actually true? To seek out out, Unemployed Architect determined to 3D-print Brandon Sander’s rotary desk design.
Should you don’t acknowledge the title Brandon Sander, you should still know his YouTube channel: Inheritance Machining. He’s one in all YouTube’s most watchable machinists and his work is really lovely. A few years in the past, he designed and machined a rotary fixture plate. In typical Sander style, it’s each practical and impossibly attractive. However may it nonetheless work if it was 3D-printed, reasonably than machined from an enormous block of metal?
Unemployed Architect wanted a rotary desk or one thing related, like a rotary fixture plate. However to make one, he wanted a rotary desk. You see the issue.
On this video, he makes an attempt to construct Sander’s rotary fixture plate from 3D-printed elements, so he can machine an actual rotary fixture plate. Thermoplastic tends to not be very inflexible, so he printed the bottom on a resin printer utilizing Siraya Tech Sculpt resin. He then embedded threaded inserts and finding pins in that.
The massive query is that if it labored and the reply is “kinda.” That vast hunk of cured resin is definitely fairly inflexible, nevertheless it nonetheless isn’t fairly as much as regular machinist requirements. Some in-situ machining, together with flycutter floor flattening, helped with precision. However although it really works effectively sufficient to do mild passes, it isn’t substitute for a “actual” software.
Must you construct one in all these your self? Most likely not. You’re higher off simply shopping for a reasonable imported rotary desk. However it’s nonetheless fascinating to see somebody making an attempt to include 3D-printed elements into machining.
