The Intimidator

[U.S. Water Rockets]

Here's a couple of pictures of our Rostock Max V2, showing the finished printer. We spent the extra time to get the printer built as neatly as practical, and did our own custom color scheme for the melamine parts to bring out the exterior edges with silver accents and black on all interior edges so that the internals and the visible tab edges were not the burnt laser cut color. Painting the edges also takes away the burning leaves smell that the parts gave off. We think it turned out even better than we expected.

The Intimidator

Close-up of the custom paint scheme

[mvansomeren]

Very nice! By the way, what do you have against burning leaves? LOL

[teoman]

Do you also make shugar rockets?

[U.S. Water Rockets]

Do you also make shugar rockets?

Not for many years. There are too many restrictions on what you can build and what you can fly with pyrotechnic propulsion. What we do is quite a bit different and few people have done much in this type of rocketry, so every experiment or idea is new. That can be very rewarding.

Here's a couple of still photos from our build video footage:

Where it all began!

Painted black edges vs. burnt black edges. It made a difference to us. ;-)

Replaced Power Supply with beefier unit and removed unused wiring harnesses before installation.

Top End wiring in progress. Wire harness sleeves were taken from the discarded Power Supply harnesses and some from HobbyKing.

RAMbo Wiring In progress.

[Eaglezsoar]

I think your printer looks great with the silver edges and highlights.
Thanks for all the pictures and the ones to follow.
Time is valuable and I appreciate that you shared some of yours with us.

[U.S. Water Rockets]

I see you found the photos! Great! Thanks for the reply to the photos. I have a number of 3D printed objects that I will be posting photos of shortly. I'm trying to get the STL files in order so I can share them as well.

[technut09]

Hi team,

What would you say is the best way to go about painting the edges of the parts? Roller, brush or Spraycans?

thanks,
-Steve S.

[Eaglezsoar]

Hi team,

What would you say is the best way to go about painting the edges of the parts? Roller, brush or Spraycans?

thanks,
-Steve S.

One of my favorite ways is to use a paint pen, they are available in different colors and I like the Sharpie Bold Paint Pen as
listed here: http://www.amazon.com/Sharpie-Paint-Mar ... bold+black

[Jimustanguitar]

I stacked my wooden pieces, spaced with construction staples to keep the edges from sticking together, and painted mine with a spray can. I did need to prime the edges first to make the color visible, otherwise the paint just wicks into the wood and is very dark.

http://forum.seemecnc.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4871

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