billeybob250
Member
Hello,
I am looking for some advice on Buck strength. I know the rule typically is "all the walls and Gyroid infill" but I'm a man who doesn't like wasting his time and is overly caseous.
Lets get to the Brass Tax, I have access to a 4ft by 8ft + commercial grade Vacuum former (but almost no one at the company knows how to use it) It does not have a PSI gage on it or an instruction manual but we know it works.
I want to make an energy sword out of transparent PETG.
I need help trying to figure out how many walls and how much infill. at 5 walls and 15% infill half of the blade will take 400g and 27 hours. so i will essentially need to quadruple that. (2 blades 2 half's each).
is this enough infill? does anyone have experience with big vacuum formers and how much pressure they exert? how strong do i go? My concern is not if i make it to strong or waist materials my concern is the buck breaking and it damage the vacuum former (they already have a damaged spot from that happening).
Theoretically if i can make this work with 1 i can make like 4+ swords in 1 sheet of film. then all i need is electronics in the hilt.
I can get pictures i can print multiple bucks i just don't want to waist the time sanding and assembling the buck for it to crack (printer time does not matter to me only man hours).
I am open to any and all advice or pointers.
Thank you.
I am looking for some advice on Buck strength. I know the rule typically is "all the walls and Gyroid infill" but I'm a man who doesn't like wasting his time and is overly caseous.
Lets get to the Brass Tax, I have access to a 4ft by 8ft + commercial grade Vacuum former (but almost no one at the company knows how to use it) It does not have a PSI gage on it or an instruction manual but we know it works.
I want to make an energy sword out of transparent PETG.
I need help trying to figure out how many walls and how much infill. at 5 walls and 15% infill half of the blade will take 400g and 27 hours. so i will essentially need to quadruple that. (2 blades 2 half's each).
is this enough infill? does anyone have experience with big vacuum formers and how much pressure they exert? how strong do i go? My concern is not if i make it to strong or waist materials my concern is the buck breaking and it damage the vacuum former (they already have a damaged spot from that happening).
Theoretically if i can make this work with 1 i can make like 4+ swords in 1 sheet of film. then all i need is electronics in the hilt.
I can get pictures i can print multiple bucks i just don't want to waist the time sanding and assembling the buck for it to crack (printer time does not matter to me only man hours).
I am open to any and all advice or pointers.
Thank you.
