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Printed Solid 3D Printing Store GRAND OPENING and Open House Maker Festival!

Printed Solid 3D Printing Store GRAND OPENING and Open House Maker Festival!

We’ve been spending the last several months working hard to get our new warehouse and showroom ready to open.

On May 15th, 2016 from 10-4 we will be celebrating with an Open House and Maker Festival and YOU are invited.  Our showroom and the entire warehouse at 2850 Ogletown Rd, Newark, DE will be open to the public for this event!

If you want to help us know how many people are coming, please RSVP at event brite.  It is free.

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Getting Ready for World Makerfaire 2015

Fall is an awesome time for 3D Printing.  There are many great events.  One of the biggest for makers and 3D Printing is the World Maker Faire in NYC.  

The 2015 event will be held at the New York Hall of Science on September 26th and 27th.  There will be a ton of amazing Makers showing off their work and lots of hands on activities.  More info about the Faire can be found here.  

Printed Solid will be there in the 3D Printing Village with some cool things to show off and some cool things to buy. 

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Get your prints to stick - Check your skirt!

One of the most simple, yet frustratingly difficult things to get figured out when you are learning about 3D Printing is how to get and keep your prints stuck to the bed. People have all kinds of tricks.  Bare clean glass, borosilicate glass, plate glass, PEI, buildTak, aluminum plate, circuit board perf material,  Painters Tape, Kapton Tape, Glue stick, hair spray, PVC film, higher temperature, lower temperature, etc.  The list goes on.
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Unboxing the Deltamaker 3D Printer

A few weeks ago, we happily accepted delivery on one of our Kickstarter rewards!  We pledged for this at the end of January 2013 and were hoping for delivery around July 2013.  Of course like most (all?) Kickstarter projects it was delayed 'a little'.  In this case, I think it was delayed because the team really put some engineering effort into the design to ensure future success.
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Vapor Smoothing 3D Printed Parts - PLA, colorFabb, XT, T-Glase, PET+

As you've seen in some of my previous posts, I've spent a fair amount of time experimenting with using an acetone vapor bath to smooth 3D Printed parts. Recently, I saw this cool make of a Moai head posted by thingiverse member Shapespeare.  He used acrylic cement to manually smooth the PLA printed part with a really great result.
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3D Printed Decorative Letter Bowls

Here’s another application for 3D printing. Custom party decorations. My wife and I decided we wanted to have bowls in the shape of the letters of our daughter’s name to hold snacks for her birthday.  So, I designed some in CAD and printed them on my Ultimaker 3D printer. 
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