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RDF antennas in 1/350 several styles and sizes

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 12:17 pm
by Patman
Hi everybody

Here is my first try of printing very tiny parts.
Basically they are different designs of RDF antennas.
Most of them are intended for cold war Soviet subs, in 4 and 6 arm versions, and a postwar racetrack shaped set made in the U.S. (don�t know the type specifics.)
Since I have a 12hr daily job and a family, I gave up trying making them in wire.
I�ve modeled them in slightly different sizes in order to try how tiny can be printed in SLA.
The final prints are merit of click2detail , the first batch in 0.25mm diameter came out with several incomplete prints, but Chris gently offered me those few which did come out well free of charge, and suggested to scale up the brace diameter to 0.3 which worked out fantastically.
Here the results:

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Re: RDF antennas in 1/350 several styles and sizes

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:07 pm
by HMCS Andy
Just wondering if you knew the make of the printer used to print these parts.

Thanks

Re: RDF antennas in 1/350 several styles and sizes

Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:22 am
by Patman
HMCS Andy wrote:Just wondering if you knew the make of the printer used to print these parts.

Thanks
Hi
I wish I know. But I�m definitely sure it�s an SLA /stereolithography equipment using laser or DLP curing a photopolymer resin.
At present they are two (relatively.) low cost SLA printers on the market, costing between 3k / 4K u$, the Form1, and the B9 Creator.
The Form 1 is laser based, the B9 uses a DLP which projects the complete section for every new layer.

So far, Click2detail.com made a good work.
Here is the RDF kit available for sale:

https://click2detail.com/products/CW/So ... F-antennas

Now I�m working on an antenna set for in 1/350 for the new Oscar class SSGN by Hobby Boss.
Below is the Radian combined radar + ESM mast:

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Saludos

P

Re: RDF antennas in 1/350 several styles and sizes

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 10:26 pm
by Patman
HMCS Andy wrote:Just wondering if you knew the make of the printer used to print these parts.

Thanks
Hi Andy

Here I found information about their equipment:

https://3delivered.com/services#printing

They operate three SLA machines, OBjet RP among them, top notch gear.

Saludos

Patricio