Formwork & Slab Pour It all happened at once. It seemed that as soon as the old mango tree had been taken away as a pile of woodchips, we had the concreter coming to prepare the site for his formwork. If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’ve been keen to get the shed […]
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Slab Preparation The go-ahead was given to the shed builder in February of this year and we were told there’d be a six-month wait til it could be built. Apparently this is normal across the industry at this point for some reason. So much so that we had to go with the only company that
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Since the birth of my son I have been increasingly concerned about the release of toxic fumes while our 3D printers are running. Those who have read our blog posts on building our 3D printing enclosures will have seen the ducting system that was designed and 3D printed for it. While that system works reasonably
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Mum, Dad and baby boy are all sick this week. I had planned a story on creating 3D printed parts for window hardware but that’ll have to wait til we’re feeling better. In the meantime, check out this video of babies being delightful. It’s my son’s favourite! Bye! *Cough, cough… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyyDWi6TkAc Cute babies care of
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about where I want to take the business and I’ve always known that the 3D printing side has limited scope for expansion. 3D printing was always going to be just the start and something I could do for some income while being a full-time stay-at-home dad. Things have slowed
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Coming from a technical background I’ve mostly used parametric 3D modelling software such as Solidworks, Inventor, SolidEdge and Fusion 360. These software packages are great for producing technical drawings based on the 3D models you create from given or acquired parameters. In simpler terms, parametric models start from a two-dimensional sketch and are then extruded
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The bedrooms were the easy part of the renovations. We just had to remove the inner linings on the walls to the exterior of the house to install some insulation, put in the new built-in wardrobes and paint the walls. We suspected that the doorways would have breezeways above them, as many old Queensland homes
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Now that things have settled down somewhat from the renovations and moving house, the urge to get back into sim racing has strengthened. The previous blog post showing the arcade machine design I’ve been working on had me thinking. ‘Can I put together a temporary setup to tide me over until I have the space
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Even if you’re not into 3D printing you may have seen the little boat model that everyone seems to print. It is called the benchy and while it is a neat little boat, it is actually used to help calibrate a 3D printer since the design incorporates a lot of geometry that tells you if
The bathroom was by far the most work of any part of the renovation, as is usually true for most whole house projects. The original bathroom was a hodge podge of add-on sections that were both poorly thought out and poorly executed. There was a toilet room inside the bathroom that just took up space
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