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W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social

Most of the concept works, except that the central connector is too weak to be 3D printed. I need to come up with something other than a snap joint. 🤔

aug 8, 2025, 2:07 pm • 11 0

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Planarian Games @jakeeldritch.bsky.social

This looks cool, any pics of it in action?

aug 8, 2025, 3:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social

The connector joining the two halves of the axle broke, so the axle is in two pieces. 😩 I might be able to join them together with glue, but I have to be careful not to get the whole thing stuck. 🙈

aug 8, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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James Chip @james-chip.bsky.social

Nice. What printer are you using?

aug 8, 2025, 3:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social

It says Prusa i3 mk 3, but it might have been upgraded to the mk 4. 🤔

aug 8, 2025, 4:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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Tom Streeter @crankybear.net

The Nextruder layout sure looks like a MK 4

aug 8, 2025, 4:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Stephanie Cervi Design @stephaniecervi.design

Could be one of the 3.x mid-upgrades. They offer a few different options depending on what features you want.

aug 9, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social

This is what it looks like inside. The bottom part originally has an extension that hooks into the top part, but it was too brittle and snapped off.

Photo showing the top and bottom part of the 3D print, which snapped in the middle.
aug 9, 2025, 1:32 pm • 2 0 • view
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Stephanie Cervi Design @stephaniecervi.design

Is there a way to use a nut and bolt embed? Or even just adding a cavity in the shaft to put a metal rod inside.

aug 9, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social

My next plan is to use a screw-in design with the BoltFactory extension in Blender. I was hoping to 3D print the whole thing. 🤔 extensions.blender.org/add-ons/bolt...

aug 9, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
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Stephanie Cervi Design @stephaniecervi.design

You have the layers working against you here, since especially with a thin shaft, it’ll always be weakest on planes parallel to the print bed. If you can print a square or hexagonal shaft laying down and then insert that, it’ll likely be a lot stronger since the layers are going lengthwise.

aug 9, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
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W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social

Yea. I wanted a ball bearing to fit in the middle, but I'm removing it to make the shaft thicker with the screw-in design.

aug 9, 2025, 3:04 pm • 1 0 • view
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Stephanie Cervi Design @stephaniecervi.design

Hope it works out! Bumping up the infill on the shaft and maybe switching to gyroid could help too. Good luck!

aug 9, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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W.H. Arthur RPG—Mud Ghost Estate Redux🔜Kickstarter @wharthur.bsky.social

Thanks! 💖

aug 9, 2025, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view