Just trying to understand re the walls, is that related to the layer depths? So if I have a 0.2mm layer depth and four walls the total outer thickness would be 0.8mm before it goes to infill?
Or have I completely misunderstood?
Layer depth is normally considered the height of each layer. The wall is basically your nozzle diameter x the number of strings it lays down, side by side, before going to infill. If you have a 0,4mm nozzle, 4 walls is 4x0,4=1,6. Think of it as the shell of the object.
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Printing the right half in PETG CF and working on the SNURK button…
The idea is to use a 2mm setscrew to fix the button to the plunger mechanism, but I only had 3mm.
The real one.
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It looks soooo good. Amazing work!
I’ll need one myself when the time comes.
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Both stick halves and the knurled parts, printed in Carbon Fibre reinforced PLA.
Added nut inserts to the left half and mounted the halves together for the first time…
A very good feeling, indeed!
SAAB sure knew what they were doing when they designed this stick. It’s so simple, yet so ergonomic.
Feels good!
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Looks good too!
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Troll, that looks incredible.
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That is totally and completely amazing and it is good to see it all coming together (I have been following this thread since I joined).
Sorry, it is completely childish of me but there is something about “SNURK button” that makes me giggle/snort.
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You do know that the Viggen has got a FART KONTROLL, right?
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I feel that GOOSE might have lived if the F-14 had a Cruise control…
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I already used the chef’s kiss photo… that sure looks the part!
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Agree, I saw a lot of cool stuff, but this is a measure above a lot of hardware made by distinguished HW makers.
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Have you ever heard the advice, to remove yourself from the problem to solve it?
Well, now you have and I guess it has a deeper meaning relating to larger issues. If you’re no longer part of the problem, it’s no longer your problem, right?
But do you know how you sometimes can solve a problem by stop thinking about it for a while…?
I have experienced this on several occasions.
The safety catch of the Viggen stick is a prominent feature and I have spent a lot of time making it work like the original, without copying the intricate mechanism, clearly designed by someone who could teach the Swiss how to make watches…
Also, SAAB had a slightly larger budget, when they built the Viggen, than I have.
The critics to the project back then had a slogan ”Close five kindergartens, build a Viggen”.
They were of course far off the mark.
You’d have to close a lot more, to fund a Viggen…
So, I had to find a cheaper way that could be replicated by the average flightsimmer and I came up with the idea to use magnets.
I put a cylinder magnet in the safety catch and 4 end point magnets, 2 on each side, that would catch the safety…catch, at safe and armed.
This worked well.
But by now, as the design phase is about to close, I realise that some parts need a little tweaking.
I want more force to move the safety catch, so I put another pair of magnets in! But, I flipped them around, so instead of attracting, they are repelling. And I put these repulsive magnets between the attractive ones…
Enjoy!
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Very nice, that seems to have a very crisp positive action.
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That pretty much sums it up perfectly!
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Using the different compound for the supports is ingenious, I guess you need to because of the strength of the carbonfibre reinforced PLA?
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Yeah, and I should add that it’s not my idea! It’s a technique that someone thought up somewhere when 3D printers started to get the ability to print with more than 1 filament.
The PLA CF supports are rather hard, yes, so they can be hard to remove. But multiprinting different filament takes time, in my printer, as it has to swap filament and purge the old plastic out of the nozzle, before printing with the new… And it does this about 150 times for this print alone, so it takes time and it wastes a lot of filament.
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Ah! I’ve only ever used an Ender 5 so I assumed you had some sort of fancy multiple-head design…
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