Stainless Steel Marvin

Dano · 2016-01-22T05:11:12.000Z

Last week I was possessed with a desire to push my printer to its limits and try printing objects at their maximum possible scale within my printer’s bounds. Naturally, Marvin seemed a good place to start. Printed in stainless steel PLA and finished with sandpaper followed by a polishing wheel. In the photos you can see before/after shots, which show the effect of polishing.

Any other ideas about what to print big?

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Titan_Robotics · 2016-01-22T08:04:12.000Z

Nice work!

3dprintingguy · 2016-01-22T10:31:55.000Z

awesome Dano! how much does it weigh?

3dpGeek · 2016-01-22T11:15:17.000Z

This is great! Proto-Pasta even reposted it on instagram! Good work!

TangibleCR · 2016-01-22T12:52:52.000Z

It looks amazing. Did you need supports with it?

I would suggest if you do this again to get a higher resolution model of Marvin.

You can see the geometric break down. If you would like I can try and get one. Let me know

monkeymake_xyz · 2016-01-22T15:52:23.000Z

Very cool, I can’t wait to get my next printer so I can play with different filament.

Dano · 2016-01-22T20:12:41.000Z

I don’t have a scale, but it feels to me about 3 or 4 pounds.

dianarodriguez · 2016-01-23T01:20:02.000Z

Nice clean-up! Sometimes I find using the little metal filer set (you can find them at Home Depot etc.) work wonders in cleaning hard to reach areas for PLA. Maybe try printing something with a pattern or unsmooth texture and see how that resolution is?

Diana

3Dscaleworks · 2016-01-23T17:35:00.000Z

nicely done

3Dscaleworks · 2016-01-23T18:02:15.000Z

nicely done

billie_2 · 2016-01-26T01:04:01.000Z

Looks great!!

How long did the print job take for that size?

iCloud · 2016-01-27T17:20:01.000Z

I have a roll of 500g stainless sitting around hmm I think I might give it a shot !