H4k0 does a non furry thing but in a furry manner
8 years ago
General
I had to get ordinary, brass fittings, because the models I was chopping up from Thingiverse were unprintable EXCEPT the impeller pump which I printed last night and destroyed this morning while trying to remove support mesh with a dremel tool (dumb-diddly dumb dumb dumb). Interestingly, the washer does have just enough of a waste pump to make a huge mess if not accommodated but not pressure to achieve sufficient head (tee hee) to get up 2 feet and reach the dishwasher drain pipe under the kitchen sink. So, it looks like I'll be reprinting that beautiful Spanish impeller pump (the file name is en Español) again, but full size this time, because I'm actually going to need it. I might also print the body in PLA and the impeller itself in PETG since PETG is supposed to be harder than ABS but without the high bed heat requirements and bird-nestiness that seems to happen to ABS when things aren't set just right. I know PLA is harder than it lets on because this morning I got cut while snapping a 1mm waste-raft of it in order to get a "feel" for its mechanical properties.
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