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Needing quote on small lot order (4doz pcs) of a ring gear LESS THAN 1" O.D. ring gear, and less than 5mm thickness. Need print to be in clear. PLA is too blobby to meet my needs therefore unusable for number of teeth required in my design.

Posted 2.11.2015

Please contact me if you’re interested.

I plan to reorder if we can work this out.

My office is close to Caldwell. Respond to mylazebonz@aol.com Thank you.

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DLP printing (D9Creator) prints ( I now understand) are superior in surface of printed objects. If you’re DLP printer, please respond as well.

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Hey @3dwhoopee, for a quick quote on sla prints you can use this url: www.3dhubs.com/3dprint/printertype/sla. Fill out your location and upload your file to get quotes from printers in your vicinity.

I will email you as well to see if I can help you get this job done.

Best,

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I’m new to this forum, obviously, so this reply is a little confusing to me. I’ve been thinking the following, and am open to having my thinking corrected, okay?

I’m working on something proprietary, so I can’t just “release into the wild” my .stl files. I’ve been chatting in UM2 forum about my project, and they are the ones that advised me, due to the small size of my print need for a ring gear with a specific number of teeth/no pitch, that I need to explore the availability of SLA or DLP to create my part.

Thus my reaching out for the SLA or DLP hub options for an eventual small run (approx 4doz pieces).

I’ve further been advised that due to unpredictable resin curing time, I may experience dimensional variations that would render some/all? of my small ring gear generated by SLA/DLP printing to be unusable. I need trial pieces to determine if I need to have my designer change tolerances of the I.D. of the ring gear to enhance usability in his CAD cam program.

So, I came here thinking if I specifically asked for SLA print hub or DLP print hub in the Caldwell, Meridian or Boise area --which this website touts has 18+ hubs–that I could find someone to work with.

I’d rather do the less expensive FDM print, but the gear is too small and all I got was blobbly gear printout.

If I understand your response, Sir, you are asking me to release into the wild my existing .stl so that many people could look, try, and thus I’d lose control over my gear.

Having worked with FDM guys for a while now, they all want to know what its for, how it will be used, pix of protype drawings, etc. That’s proprietary to me, frankly. I don’t want competition in the marketplace until I’m ready to roll out my concept. Understandable, yes?

So, help me understand how to do this interface with your website, pls?

I thought my ad was clear…I’m looking for SLP/DLP print hub to work with, and now I’ve stated it’s a small ring gear, of less than 1" in O.D.

Thank you for your response. I look forward to learning how to better interface with Caldwell/Meridian/Boise 3DHubs in pursuit of my goal for procuring these parts. I don’t want to go the injection mold route, not for these re-curring small runs I’m envisioning.

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I’m currently working on making a sla printer. I have all of it done I just need a dlp projector

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Thanks 4 your reply. Keep me posted on your progress, pls. Thanks again.

You located near Caldwell, Meridian or Boise?

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Hey @3dwhoopee, there is no need to release your STL into the wild. We only use your STL to give you a quote. No third party will receive the file yet, and we don’t do anything with it. I suggest you give it a try and please let me know if the quotes are satisfying or too pricey.

Best,