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Day: September 15, 2011

  • Toy Dump Truck Convoy

    Dump Truck fleet
    Dump Truck fleet

    The Tiny Toy Dump Truck by madscifi makes a fine tchotchke for a presentation, serving to illustrate the risks and rewards of printing flat overhangs without support. A fleet of six printed well, after repairing some failures as those tall, tall rings and posts near the dump bed pivot fell over. I pasted them down in mid-print using ABS slurry, which is not a technique to emulate.

    A closer look shows the overhang problem in the dump bed and the broken pillars behind the wheels.

    Truck overhang failure - grayscale
    Truck overhang failure – grayscale

    It’s in monochrome because the camera choked on that much Safety Orange filament in the image, to the extent that no amount of color correction produced a usable result.