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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on May 8, 2020 20:48:50 GMT -4
Has anyone recently purchased anything from Banggood? I get e-flyers from them on a regular basis and have purchased many items. Now half of all items I look at buying are not able to be shipped to Canada. Anyone else have this problem? I've had an Ender 3 3d printer bookmarked in my wishlist for months (along with several other items) and now it states they cannot ship to my country. They are in stock but just can't be shipped to canada
Anyone has any idea what is going on let me know.
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Post by Bill F on Nov 29, 2020 13:21:31 GMT -4
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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on Nov 29, 2020 13:58:46 GMT -4
Bill,
I think it was Covid causing the problem as now everything I have bookmarked is available to be shipped to Canada (if in stock). I've ordered a couple times since then. I gave up on Banggood back in the spring and purchased an Ender 5 from BC (Amazon). Since then I've been printing like mad. I think I've gone thru 5-6 rolls (1.1 KG) of PLA and 1/2 roll of PETG. I have a roll of ABS but cannot get it to print properly. it keeps splitting at the layers. I have fixed the bonding issue to the bed. 'ABS Juice' will stick anything to glass.
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Post by Bill F on Nov 29, 2020 16:49:30 GMT -4
That's great Kevin .....give us some idea of what your printing ..that's a lot of material you've gone through..!
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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on Nov 30, 2020 22:11:20 GMT -4
Bill,
I've printed several wall mounts for my fuselages of my planes to get them off the floor of the garage. Replacement parts for my blinds on my back door of the house. replacement battery door for an apprentice RC Plane. wheel chocks for my planes. Xmas stuff for friends and family. A Yak55 RC airplane 33" wing span. Just need to add the flight control surfaces and it will be complete. This is just to mention a few of the prints.
Of course a lot of aborted prints as part of the learning curse to find the sweet spot for bed levelling and temp control for all the different filaments. I've found out the hard way slow and steady makes the best prints.
Kevin
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Post by Bill F on Dec 2, 2020 17:18:04 GMT -4
Wow...you have been busy ...the "wheel chocks"sound interesting ...especially if they keep the plane from moving around in the car while being transported. That Yak55 will deserve it's own thread with pictures when completed, maybe get it into Al's monthly newsletter.
Bill
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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on Dec 2, 2020 22:14:40 GMT -4
My only shortfall on the yak is the motor. I only have a marginal sized motor for it. I'm now waiting on my latest Banggood order to fix that. It should be here this week. I guess I need to take a few pics to document this build.
The wheel chocks are excellent and completely keep the plan from moving around in the vehicle or at the field. I modified them with a strip of plywood, screwed to each one to keep the pair together and elastics to keep them on the plane if you pick the plane up. see pic attached of the chock. I had to resize the chock on Cura to match my tire size of the plane.
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Post by astroflyer on Dec 8, 2020 10:18:20 GMT -4
I'd love to see photos of that Yak Kevin. That would be a welcome addition to the newsletter.
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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on Dec 8, 2020 13:00:51 GMT -4
I'll see what I can do for you Al. It is already 80% assembled, Just ailerons rudder and elevator to install. and partly painted.Just wing tips as the plane was printed out of silver and gray PLA filament as that is all I had at the time.
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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on Dec 8, 2020 14:51:58 GMT -4
Here you go Al....this will have to take several posts as the size limit on photos is only 1 MB.
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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on Dec 8, 2020 14:52:19 GMT -4
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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on Dec 8, 2020 14:52:42 GMT -4
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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on Dec 8, 2020 14:53:29 GMT -4
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Post by krmckay "Bombs away" on Dec 8, 2020 14:55:30 GMT -4
Here is a little write-up for you Al.
by ELECTRONOOBS April 15, 2018 At this moment this design has never flown according to the designer. I’ve learnt a lot about 3D printing and Airplanes in this build. Lessons I plan on transferring to another build maybe over the winter. This was the first plane I found on thingiverse and is probably going to be a hot / fast flyer. The current motor in it is for functional testing and probably not powerful enough to get it flying. I modified the cowling so it is removable so as to have easier access to speed controller and receiver as well as for motor replacement. I did find one error in the Wing design internally but was able to easily correct it by mirroring the inboard main wing segment from a left to a right-hand part. The wings segments were printed vertically therefore seams between print layers run fore and aft on the wings and would be fragile and could easily fail. Fine for a static plane but not for a flying model. So I inserted a ¼” x ¾” plywood spar the entire length of the main wing as ‘G’ forces would snap the wings off during flight without one. The wing span on this is 33” and length 23”, I don’t have a final weight yet, the motor has to be swapped out and battery selected. Probably going with an 1100mAH 3s Battery for maiden as I have several. Weight is going to be an issue as well Weight and Balance will have to be guessed as there is nothing documented for it.
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Post by astroflyer on Dec 9, 2020 10:21:53 GMT -4
Wow! This is great Kevin. Fascinating stuff! Isn't technology grand. Thanks so much or these and the info as well.
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