If anyone on here is interested in possibly printing items with their printers for others and maybe, up to them, accepting a small fee for doing so please let me know. Occasionally I have people contact me wanting to know if I'll print some items that are up on my thingiverse.com account ( HERE ). At 79 I'm quite selfish with my time and have no desire to get into the printing business so have to turn down those requests. Maybe some of you that have a printer might be interested. I could pass on your name and the names of others that might be interested and then be gone from the process. From that point on it would be between you and the person that wanted/needed the print to work out any details. Sumner
semi interested ... i have an older prusa clone filament printer , and a small assortment of filaments ..heated bed and auto zero ... would only [maybe] be interested in canadian users as that' where i am and customs is a pain in the ***, and probably only HO and larger as filament doesn't create a very good result in N scale and smaller .. no idea on what to charge though , i know shipping is expensive from here
Thanks, a lot of my items actually do better with a filament printer. Some are too large for a lot of the smaller resin printers. Also for like the cases, wiring clamps, and servo mounts I think the filament prints are stronger Also if you look at my thingiverse.com account everything there was printed with a filament printer. Personally I believe a lot of n-scale items do fine with a filament printer even small objects. The exception would be loco shells and other items that need really small details that are under scale 3 inches in scale. Sumner
im game to help fellow modelers. as long as they expect to paint them , cause i never know what colors im printing at this time. im just burning through a bunch of filament that i got with the other printer i bought . right now its green when that runs out it might be blue or white or ??? OH i dont do out of the states way to costly and problematic.
Thanks guys, I'll put you on a list and anyone else that is interested. When someone asks me for a print I'll give them the list with your PM on here and they can decide who they want to contact and then you and they can work out any details. Don't be expecting hundreds of contacts as I only average 1 or 2 requests every month or two but it would be nice if I had someone to send them to. If you are still interested please PM me and let me know if you have a filament or resin printer or both along with any size or other restrictions you might have such as where you would ship to and I'll add that to the info on the list. Even though I say don't expect a lot of contacts my servo mounts and a few other things are really popular and I'll PM you if you send me a PM about possible options on those items that might lead somewhere. Sumner
Hi Sumner, thanks for posting this. Hey everyone, I am the guy looking for the prints of Sumners 3D Printed Bracket to Mount SG90 Servo Under a Turnout, please drop me a PM with details if anyone is willing to help me out. thanks all, Kevin
I keep going back and forth on this: do I buy a printer to print out the handful of things I 'need' to have or do I just try to find someone with a printer that would be willing to print them for me (for a small fee)? History has taught me that too often when I have something, I never get around to using it. Years ago, I bought an Alps printer so I could print my own decals...never printed a single one and then one day, I no longer had a printer port on my computer. Sometimes just 'knowing' I could do something 'if I really wanted to' but not having to actually learn how to do it is enough...
Hard question to give a generic answer too. I have a lot of tools I bought that I've used very little and some none at all. Some I thought I really wouldn't get much use out of I've used a lot and others the other way around. Figure about $250 to get into a good filament printer. I've got 2 Ender 3 Pros now (one they sent by mistake and then didn't want it returned). I've used them a ton. Printing on the two that are out of the box as I write this. I have one resin printer that is setup but have still never used it. Probably will regret not using it as soon as I do. I still think a filament printer is more versatile in what it can do. I couldn't print the throttle cases I'm doing now on a resin printer in the same price range as I think they might be too big and not sure how strong a resin print is for something like a handheld throttle. Still both kinds of printers have their place. The resin is setup out in the shop as I don't believe I'd want the smell in the house nor want to deal with the cleaning of the print that is required. I have an Ender printing right behind me off the living room and the other is printing out in the shop. No smell, no mess, pop the print off the build surface and use and/or paint it right away. I think it is also easier to start with a filament printer. Less steps in the whole process. It is not hard at all to recoup the money you spend on one with things you can print for the layout. Bear in mind though this isn't a printer with the ease of putting paper in a paper tray and printing and dealing with changing the print cartridge, adding paper and occasionally dealing with a paper jam. You are going to have to commit to learning a little more and deal with some maintenance situations occasionally also. If one has the $250 to spend and wants to give it a go I sure would recommend it though and if you don't like it you probably can get at least half of that back by selling it. I've already printed items that would of cost me well over $1000 to buy and items that I can't even get commercially, Sumner
I have plans to buy a printer, but as of right now the budget is tight. I am in the middle of a N Scale build and have the normal bills we all face in life. I have been setting aside small amounts in a private little stash, but currently I am about 100.00 or so short. Eventually I will get there. I will definitely own a printer some time this summer. As of right now, it appears that Sidney may be doing the printing for me. So, a big thank you to Sidney, and another thank you to Sumner for setting this up.
Sumner, I wanted the basic single. I gave Sidney a copy of the files from your page. I don't know what the files contain, I just grabbed the file and sent it Sidneys way. Sent from my SM-A516U using Tapatalk
I think this is a great idea. Kind of our own Shapeways on a small scale. I have no desire to own a 3D printer. I've thought about it, but in the end I know I would be frustrated, probably use it a few times and never again I don't think I need anything right now, will for sure in the future. Or maybe I do need some things right now after I look on Thingaverse. How do we spread this around so we don't ask one person and get them over whelmed, and spread it out so many can make a buck or two. Would also depend on the price too. Would be cool to have a wanted 3D printed items and then the first person with the 3D printer could respond, or something like that? Kind of like Swap Meet but different Time to go look at https://www.thingiverse.com Please see this thread: https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/wanted-3d-items-printed.150134/ Thanks!
I would be up to do a few things. All I have are resin printers, But there is a filament printer in the house.
Quick answer is yes, but it depends. I don't try and push my Ender filament printer under about .015" and most of my window trim is around .020-.025", 3-4" in N-Scale. A resin printer can get down in the .003-.006" range, 1/2-1" in N-Scale. Some of the newer ones even finer detail. Saying that for my modeling needs as what I'm happy with for windows and buildings the Ender is doing a good enough job. An example of what I'm happy with is the couple pictures above of part of my coal mine complex that was designed with Fusion 360 and that I'm printing with the Ender 3 Pro on Standard Quality. There are two higher qualities above 'Standard' but the print times go up quite a bit especially for larger prints like the ones above. I use those print qualities for smaller more intricate items but could print windows separately and plug them in but I'm too lazy to do that so print them as part of the building. Another item to consider here is it isn't just the printer. It is also the design itself. If something is designed to be 3-4 inches wide like what I'll use for window frames a printer isn't going to print 1-2 inch frames. If you aren't the one that is doing the designing you have no control over that basically if you download a print from someone like myself and print it without trying to modify it. Sumner
I'm specifically talking about this house? Had a friend print me one a few years ago, and now someone is working on some 3D printed items for me, and also trying to print me another one of these, and is having issues with the windows also, almost sure? I think the pictures are HO scale? https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3210150 Here is the one I have now: Although some work, most don't really work, I just have them in there kind of! Hot lucky with the balcony. You can see the windows he is printing in this thread: https://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/wanted-3d-items-printed.150134/
I'm assuming you're talking about the windows falling out of the openings. Unless the printer is really dialed in, getting a friction fit for parts like that are challenging at this scale. Use some white glue or whatever preferred glue you have to fill in the gaps between the frames and opening to keep them from falling out. It's better to be slightly loose than slightly tight in this case because being too tight can lead to deformation of the frame pieces making for a less appealing look in my opinion. Mike
the file that you linked to on thingiverse gas both N scale and HO scale STLs avaiaible .in the ZIP file
I ran into attachment "issues" with my steam locomotive - steam and sand domes printed with the same radius as the boiler presented a rather coarse interface, even printed with resin. So, I decided to try "gluing" them to the boiler by just incorporating them in CAD and printing the single item, worked like a treat. You don't need to union them into a single part, you just embed the smaller part in the larger one a few thousandths of an inch. Read about it here: https://glenn.pulpitrock.net/blog/posts/2022-09-01_168_decorations_pt2/ Same sort of thinking for windows, I think. I have a couple of configurable models on my personal website, a brick wall pattern and a double-hung window, and I'm thinking of adding a "void" block to the window, a separate .stl file that you could use to make the hole in the wall for mounting the window. Then, incorporate the window with the brick wall in the CAD program and print the whole thing as a single part. After I get my printer back up and running, I'm going to write a demonstration post on that.
