As some of you may already know. I have been working with Donkey on this 3d printing caper for a while now.
Attached are some images of some of the prints in black ABS using a 1.0mm (really fat) nozzle.
This nozzle gives a very strong finish at the cost of fine detail. The layer bonding is really strong in these prints.
Nearly broke my old cast iron meat grinder crushing up some failed calibration cubes...
All the pictured prints are in 0.2mm layers, except the thumb wheel and the small dragon tablet/phone holder/stand thingy. These where both printed in 0.1mm layers.
The bookmarks are 1.5mm thick (also printed in 0.1mm layers) and are very felxable.
I am still improving print quality daily. So these should be considered worst case examples.
This printer is out of action for a few days while a new hotend is in the post. Once that is fitted I will print up an example project box I have designed in CAD.
We also have ABS in Red, Light Blue, Dark Blue, white, natural (yellow/rubber/latex colour) and some really bright, almost fluro orange. ABS can be painted with the right paint.
The parts in the pictures are all unfinished. ie I could clean them up a lot with a sand and/or an acetone wipe.
I'll update this thread with some hand finished pics of the same prints for comparison. As well as some finer prints with the new 0.4mm nozzle once its running again.
As far as accuracy goes. No problems getting sub millimetre accuracy. I do like to make screw holes etc a touch small though. They are easy to enlarge with a drill, self tapper, or hot poker, and unusable if too big... Same for nut/bolt head recesses. The nut in the thumb-wheel was a very tight fit. I had to give it a poke with a soldering iron to get it seated right. But its not coming out by accident now... The XYZ calibration cubes where set at 20mm and measured 20.01 on my calipers.