it's time for nerdgasm! hey what's up nerdgasm fans,
3d printing scale model cars, jerry here a.k.a. barnacules now, the cool guys over at colorfabb, you know the guys who make a lot of the material i use, sent me a new material that they have
it's actually called "bronzefill" it's a pla/pha filament just like the regular plastics except for it has bronze in it, like literally, the metal bronze which means it weighs a ton when i first picked up the box i was like "holy crap, this weighs a lot!" literally. but you can also sand and polish these things down and the bronze particles will shine just like the metal counterpart
and it will basically look like bronze. and it will weigh like bronze because it is bronze. mostly. *extreme head shaking* all right well now that we got some bronze filament we need something to print with it. well luckily for me a guy named ricardo alves went ahead and 3d-modelled my head i probably should find that a little creepy, huh? well regardless he did it and the model is posted on myminifactory.com.
so now all you guys can print out jerry's little head who wouldn't wanna play with jerry's little head? alright well all joking aside i think the 3d-model is absolutely brilliant. he did a fantastic job. and the link is down in the video description if you guys wanna print out jerry's little head. well i think it would be cool to print my head in bronze just so it can sit on my desk next to all my other dolls that have my head on it and i'm starting to feel just a little narcissistic what am i talking about i'm a youtube producer of course i'm narcissistic
i'm just kidding guys in all fairness it's just bad ass to have a 3d-printed bronze version of your head sitting on your desk. come on it makes you feel like... like special alright, well let's get this model sliced and diced, and over to the 3d printer. alright guys, here we have the latest version of cura, it's 14.090 but then for those of you who haven't watched my previous videos, cura is my preferred slicer. that i use for all my 3d printers, regardless of brand. currently i have it set up for my ultimaker original because that's kind of my workhorse, and this is a brand new material i've never used before. and the ultimaker original is on the approved materials list by colourfabb
so i'm going to go ahead and give it a try on there first. all right, let's go ahead and import my head. it does take a little while to load. there it is! because it is a very, very detailed model. ok, so the first thing we notice is, it's pointing in the wrong direction, so let's go ahead and select that, we're going to come down and do a quick rotation, flip it around to the front and the other thing is, i'd like it to be a little bit larger than it currently is
i'd like it to be about 4 inches so let's go down and scale and we're going to go on the z-axis here we're gonna scale it up to 101.6 all right, so now we end up with a model that when it's printed will be about 4 inches in height. which should be perfect. alright now as far as layer height for this first time printing with this material we're gonna go for a: .16 layer height and we want a really thick shell on it too so we're gonna go for a 2mm inner shell and then for fill density, we're gonna go ahead and just go with a 10% inner fill density.
go ahead and lower the temperature down to 210 and then for the print speed we're gonna leave it at 50 we don't wanna go real fast with this material since it's pretty new. everything else i'm gonna leave exactly the same now you can see up here it's gonna take a while to slice this, this is a very very complicated model. here's the layer view so you can get an idea of how it's going to print. from the ground up.
alright, well i'm going to go ahead and let this finish, save it to the drive and take it over to the printer.. well unfortunately you guys didn't getto see the whole time lapse because unfortunately xsplit hit a problemand stopped recording. damn you xsplit! damn you! but, at least you get to see the final product. here it is 4-inch-tall jerry. now you can already tell i've startedto polish the bottom on this and you can see that it's actually pretty, pretty shiny
like around the side and the chin area here the way that the light reflectsoff of it is very, very metallic and i haven't even sanded it downto get all the ridges yet. so i'm actually using a combinationof sandpaper and steel wool to do the sanding on this to maintainas much of the detail as possible. now, another crazy thing like i was saying in the beginning about this material is it's very heavy. this actually feels like it's made out of metal or like stone.
it doesn't feel like plastic at all and the weight definitely doesn't represent plastic at all. i actually went and snuck and stolemy wife's kitchen scale. alright we got it all zeroed-out let'ssee how much this thing weighs. according to this, it's 11 and 5/8 ounces. alright now just to give a little contrast, i've got a couple other items here. let's go ahead and weigh the terminator skull - it's giant by comparison. now this is just plastic
you see it only weighs a little over 6 ounces compared to that thing weighing over 11. alright well let's try this - this was printed fairly solid in fill, really heavy, really robust in pla/pha let's weigh this. you can see that's only about - a little 8 ounces so you can see that is incredibly heavy material. alright so hopefully that gives you guys an idea of just how heavy and dense this material is. i wish i
could tell you how it felt i meanthere's no real way to articulate it it definitely doesn't feel like plastic though and you can see because i printed at .16 it's not the highest resolution the printer could do so you could see there is a lot of little lines and ridges throughout this thing so it's gonna take a lot of sanding to get it down to a point where i can ultimately buff it to a metallic shine but you can already tell the promising results just from
polishing with a little bit of steel woolfor a couple of minutes i can already tell this thing isgoing to shine like a diamond. like a bronze diamond... now if you guys enjoyed this video and you want to see the final product and how i actually finished this thing and polish it and that whole process, i'm going to be making another video so make sure you hit that 'subscribe' button - it will be out next week. also if you guys want to get some of your own material and try it i've got the links down in the descriptionto colorfabb's website
and printedsolid[.com] so you can actually go and purchase your own bronzefill filament and if you guys enjoyed watching me print with experimental material, let me know - there are a lot of experimental materials out there andi'd be willing to make videos on all of them if it's something you guys are interested in so just let me know down in the comments. well guys, i hope you enjoyed this video and until next time. hey guys, i hope you enjoyed this video.
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