6. 3D Printed Parts Arrived

Last night I got an email off Joe and he said that the parts were printed and ready for pickup. This morning I called around to his house to pick them up.

The 3D files were printed using prototype plastic and the quality of the prints were a really high quality. I was really happy with the results.

Just like in the 3D model the base pieces joined together perfectly. But the fully round parts needed a little but of sanding to make them fit into the t-joints.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the grip piece fitted over t-joints almost perfectly. But they were just a little tight. One thing that I should have thought of and never did was make the female joints on the grip piece .1mm or .2mm larger in circumference.

At first I tried to sand the inside one of the mis-printed grip pieces to fit onto the pvc t-joint. But when when I used my Dremel, I found that the plastic began to sag. So I took a chance by using my heat gun to heat up the circular parts of the print. When they started to sag I then slid them over the pvc t-joints. They then cooled back down and went hard again and fit the t-joints perfectly after that.

All that is left now is to build it...