Bike logos, badges, etc.

[Felix]

Presumably that is the same as Numberplate Tape? Right must go, busy day tomorrow. Chat more at the start of the week

[Screwdriver]

Presumably that is the same as Numberplate Tape? Right must go, busy day tomorrow. Chat more at the start of the week

I don't know what "number plate tape" is. I assume it would be a generic, no brand, double sided sticky tape.

UHB by 3M is the stuff I would use. Speak later....

[Screwdriver]

@Taipan I couldn't resist having a crack at it.



Love that avatar...

[Screwdriver]

@KungFooBob



I kinda like this one too...

[KungFooBob]

@KungFooBob



I kinda like this one too...

It's Hen House Harry!

[Screwdriver]

Cross my palm with silver and he can be yours. Any size, any config, keyring, badge, numberplate, desk ornament.

No job too small, no fee too large...

[Screwdriver]

I'm on a roll...



Any requests? (other than "please stop").

[Count Steer]

Just checked and PETG is food safe. Hmmm...personalised mugs, drink containers...*ponder*

(Be a laugh handing over a coffee cup with that last design on in Costa for a fill-up ).

[MrLongbeard]

Just checked and PETG is food safe

It can be, but I've seen it fail both 10/2011 & LFGB.
If you've got 100% pure PETG and it's going through a machine thats never printed with anything but, it might be OK.

[Count Steer]

Just checked and PETG is food safe

It can be, but I've seen it fail both 10/2011 & LFGB.
If you've got 100% pure PETG and it's going through a machine thats never printed with anything but, it might be OK.

Ah. It does look a bit more complicated...just saw all the details with this feedstock...

https://www.amazon.com/Certified-Food-G ... J6JTK?th=1

Life's never simple.

[Screwdriver]

Well I certainly don't recommend eating it ...

I wouldn't guarantee anything tbh. My machine (brand new Bambu Labs Carbon X1) has only ever used PETG. I never print with anything else.

But looking at the food safe certified blah, how do you know the product you get is what it says on the tin? PETG is easy enough to confirm, food grade manufacture and process? Less easy. There's are a million factories in China that recycle/manufactures plastic filament and the prices are outrageous.

When did plastic become more valuable than brass or copper? Currently staring at £35 per kg (for PETG black) because I just can't find any for love nor money. It has become the ultimate super high margin commodity. Ten times the value of scrap brass.

...and you thought ink jet printer inks were a ripoff.

[Screwdriver]

Just checked and PETG is food safe. Hmmm...personalised mugs, drink containers...*ponder*

(Be a laugh handing over a coffee cup with that last design on in Costa for a fill-up ).

Would it need to be food safe if it's a sleeve/handle affair...

[Count Steer]

Just checked and PETG is food safe. Hmmm...personalised mugs, drink containers...*ponder*

(Be a laugh handing over a coffee cup with that last design on in Costa for a fill-up ).

Would it need to be food safe if it's a sleeve/handle affair...

Can't imagine it would need to be. A custom handled sleeve for a standard cup could work. How thin walled can you go with the kit/PETG?

(At a pottery show I saw a demo by a bloke that had built his own device, using an old x/y plotter*, to lay down coils of plasticised clay slip to build sort of complex coil pots. Tricky to get the slip and speed right because of the weight building up before it hardened, but when he got it right the fired ceramics were quite impressive. Can't think of any other way you'd produce anything like it).

* not sure how he dealt with z, poss a stepper motor on the nozzle shaft. It was all a bit Heath Robinson, I think he used a foot pump to pressurise the feed! Had to admire his ingenuity though.

[Screwdriver]

Spiral print mode, single "thread" of filament forming the wall, about 0.4 - 0.6 mm. It' easily doable but paper thin and distortion becomes an issue along with delamination.

Its ok for decorative items but not so much for practical useable prints.

[Taipan]

@Taipan I couldn't resist having a crack at it.



Love that avatar...

That is pretty awesome. On a 3d printer I assume? You should add the "Extremely Venomous" underneath and put it on your shed door!

*edit* just read the whole thread! Shame its been buried here as I and no doubt many others don't venture here and a lot wont see it. Get it moved to General?

[Screwdriver]

@Taipan I couldn't resist having a crack at it.



Love that avatar...

That is pretty awesome. On a 3d printer I assume? You should add the "Extremely Venomous" underneath and put it on your shed door!

*edit* just read the whole thread! Shame its been buried here as I and no doubt many others don't venture here and a lot wont see it. Get it moved to General?

Thanks!

Well of course you would say that. It's all part of my cunning plan.

I could easily add the text but then it would be even more "yours" than it is now. I couldn't find an original version so I hade to draw this one from scratch. Be interesting to know where you got it if that's not lost in the mists of time.

In all seriousness, I wondered if making a "personalised" avatar print would be a potential business opportunity. I assumed they would sell themselves! But they take ages to redraw, format and then of course print and they have to be cheap somehow. If the "test" works, I might be able to come up with some more automated process.

I have agreed with Weeksy that this sort of advertising/selling is ok in its own section so no it shouldn't be part of the man forum since it's not really a discussion. I might drop a couple of hints in appropriate threads if they don't detract from the topic at hand.

But yes, thanks again, they are compelling little souvenirs. The most compelling part is when you're holding one of these virtual, non fungible tokens as a real, solid item in your hot sweaty hands...

[Taipan]

@Taipan I couldn't resist having a crack at it.



Love that avatar...

That is pretty awesome. On a 3d printer I assume? You should add the "Extremely Venomous" underneath and put it on your shed door!

*edit* just read the whole thread! Shame its been buried here as I and no doubt many others don't venture here and a lot wont see it. Get it moved to General?

Thanks!

Well of course you would say that. It's all part of my cunning plan.

I could easily add the text but then it would be even more "yours" than it is now. I couldn't find an original version so I hade to draw this one from scratch. Be interesting to know where you got it if that's not lost in the mists of time.

In all seriousness, I wondered if making a "personalised" avatar print would be a potential business opportunity. I assumed they would sell themselves! But they take ages to redraw, format and then of course print and they have to be cheap somehow. If the "test" works, I might be able to come up with some more automated process.

I have agreed with Weeksy that this sort of advertising/selling is ok in its own section so no it shouldn't be part of the man forum since it's not really a discussion. I might drop a couple of hints in appropriate threads if they don't detract from the topic at hand.

But yes, thanks again, they are compelling little souvenirs. The most compelling part is when you're holding one of these virtual, non fungible tokens as a real, solid item in your hot sweaty hands...

It is, or was, a warning sign on a door at a Australian snake collection containing snakes like my namesake. I had a quick google but couldn't see it anywhere now?

Good to know you'r doing stuff like this. I hope to build a garden room later this year and will have something for that for sure.

[Skub]

I hope to build a garden room later this year and will have something for that for sure.

Get it now and put it in the loft.

[Screwdriver]

Quick edit. Getting into the realms where I'd need to know what it's for, what size etc. to correctly scale the background.

Small token size icon, wall sign, door sign, key fob, number plate moniker, desk stand/object etc. etc.

A graphic like this can be made into any sort of object you like but its form and relative proportions will follow function.

I also changed the font to a more deadly version....

[Felix]

Does this make sense? I dong have digital callipers to get the smaller measurements but i think as the two sided tape will be 1-2mm thick anyway its probably best this me made slightly larger to overlap the old badge recess.

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This is what LDV did to cheer up the badgeon the later vans. Bin LDV and add Maxus. I was thinking Convoy in my badge but unsure of colours. The silver van will be getting painted white soon. Last picture s the standard badge.

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