Project Whurple - White/Purple Watercooled Build - Changes to 3d printer build!!

Before.

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After. 6 months.

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It's really not worth it. It's not as simple as just doing a flush either, you have to take all of your stuff apart to get the residue out.

Exciting but sadly too late. I have ordered the world! The world I tell you!! Also bendy insert is here!!! Just gotta have a play with it later tonight!
 
Daisy (one of my little fluff balls) and I, we bent some stuff:



As you can see from the bend my silicon insert is not right, although it claimed to be 12mm it clearly isn't, it's 10mm for sure! 12mm has now been ordered.
 
Would also like to add that I ordered a 3d printer. If we are going to have some fun then we may as well 3d print some stuff along the way!
 
The cat's adorable! And the valve is a lovely piece of engineering..

What 3D printer did you get? I guess that's not part of the build cost? :p I keep toying with the idea of getting one but I feel like they're still a bit finnicky. Was attending a 3D printing lecture and I was just overwhelmed by the sheer amount of varying factors that come into play which can impact the quality of your print. :eek:

So now I usually just get a mate to print jobs for me instead :D.

Dunno its another £75 China special :) We will see when it gets here!
 
You sure owe that guy in China a few beers :D:D

Looking forward to it! Does it come with the 3D printing material as well? You're going to have loads of fun with that methinks!

It comes with some printing materials as well as all the bits I need to build it. Look it isn't going to be the best one there is but for £75 notes (everything in china is £75) its going to be awesome!
 
3d print something nice to go on the psu shroud ~nice font whurple for example
You good with cad?
Tried it a few times anything but a cube etc was my limit lol
Swear it's the softwares fault though lol

No major plans for it but I want to print a thing to hold my electronics for my epoxy thing. Then I thought I can print some things for the pc as well. I also have a friend that is making a massive model railway and im going to make the pub in 3ds max and paint it all for them :)

And yes, I spent years designing things in MAX and then importing it to Director and creating games so the modeling side of things shouldn't be all that tricky.

I have 10 items still waiting delivery including the damn chairs which I have been messed around on like you wouldn't believe. Should have been delivered Friday but after many calls they are telling me delivery in July... So that just won't do and I have now ordered them somewhere else.
 
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Shout out to Director, may she rest in peace. My bread and butter for almost a decade.

MAX has a native STL export so you should be fine. I recommend Cura for slicing the STL for printing. Holler if you need a hand setting anything up when it arrives.

Director was awesome and it was so easy to import Havok it was silly! Man I miss that!
 
3d printer is here:

Shout out to Director, may she rest in peace. My bread and butter for almost a decade.

MAX has a native STL export so you should be fine. I recommend Cura for slicing the STL for printing. Holler if you need a hand setting anything up when it arrives.

The 3d printer is here!! Jesus that was fast!
 
The only issue, the instructions to build it, drivers etc are all on a CD.... I don't have a cd drive on any pc anywhere.
 


Who needs instructions :D For £75 shipped it doesn't seem bad at all. Did check and you can get them for cheap all over the place so it isn't the best deal in the world but still it's a bit of fun!
 
Well done mate
And holy **** for the cost I was expecting to see a really small bit of machinery

It will print 200x200x200 which is plenty for me. :)

Also it's on the chest I made from pallets, old broken furniture and spare wood. This will be what Whurple sits on next to the desk.
 
Crikey, that's a lot of printer for £75! My Ender 3 Pro was £180 and is only single z-axis drive, although my frame is all aluminium extrusions rather than tubes.

The big trick I see here is no instructions means no immediate way of telling what firmware you have on the control board, and as a result no idea what to tell your slicer (e.g. I set my Cura to use Marlin for its gcode).

It's on the CD!!! The CD says, Assembly manual, cura 15.04, Cura manual, Firmware. Looks like I may need to go and have a look in the garage and find a pc with a cd drive in it!
 
if it comes with Cura then it's probably Marlin

It does. Just went out to garage and found an old pc with a dvd drive. Will plug that into something and grab all the files off of the cd!

I have no doubt that I will be needing copious amounts of help!
 


Check it out! Boom!

Gotta sort that wiring out with some of the zip ties and some more cable tidy things but that is looking like its ready for software and things.
 
Now get it trammed! (I refuse to use the common parlance term "levelling" because it's just not correct :p )

Enjoy, the most addictive nightmare of your life has just begun, welcome to the club :D

With the building done I installed the software, set up all the "stuff" it tells me to. It will actually print 200x200x180 not that that makes any difference to me really. Anyway After that I played with a few models and looked at thingiverse for a bit. Tomorrow I think I will set up all the drivers and explore this Tramming you speak of. There is a whole section in the properly dodgey manual (there isn't, I thought there was but just checked and it's a lie) I'm on my own from here on out!
 
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