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I thought I would start a new thread that is appropriately titled to document the following weeks of 3D printed mini phonographs.

As some of you remember from last week.. I printed this mini Vic V. Shown below is a picture of 2 models. The grey one is printed out of ABS on one of the schools commercial printers, and the black one was printed out of PLA on a Prusa Mk III printer. Unfortunately the ABS print sat in the lye bath too long and the back bracket broke

Cheers,

David

The subject of this week's addition is this mini Eldridge Johnson Type B Phonograph. (someone please correct me if I have ID this wrong).

I also printed one on the commercial printer.. but it is still in the bath. I will update this post with pictures later. But for now here is the PLA version. ( I am still trying to carefully remove the supports from under the "wooden" part of the horn mount... so that is what all those little ridges are. I am trying to avoid breaking this one!

Also for all following weeks... the PLA version will be much bigger than the ABS ones because it's much more expensive to print on the commercial printers and I can only keep printing these as long as they are small enough to just be test prints.

I did not design these prints... just finding ones on the internet. However I am quickly running out of STL phonograph files and will have to start making them on my computer. So if anyone is handy with CAD and wants to make one. I will gladly print it for you and post it to you! I also may start making mini accessories as well. So this is not really limited to just actual phonographs. Depending on how it goes, I.E. if anyone actually makes a 3D model, maybe a shared folder can be made with all the STL files so that anyone else with access to a 3D printer can print these for themselves.

Cheers,

David

Okay, I have a 3D printer at my school as well and so I ask:

1. How long did the first one (in black) take to print and

2. Can you send me the file? I'd love to get this to my tech guy and get one going! How mad would he be?

I teach music, I'll give him some edu-speak on why this is important for my classes

Dischoard wrote: Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:03 pm Okay, I have a 3D printer at my school as well and so I ask:

1. How long did the first one (in black) take to print and

2. Can you send me the file? I'd love to get this to my tech guy and get one going! How mad would he be?

I teach music, I'll give him some edu-speak on why this is important for my classes

I think it took around 26 hours . I scaled the file up to 175% (I think)

Pm me your email and I will send over both the STl and perhaps g-code as well. what kind of printer? I will say however as I broke mine when getting the supports off. The back bracket doesn't have much to it....so it's easy to snap!

David