ARC Hanson JHA Part 5: Prints of the revised LTF-25 design
Unfortunately the latest prints of the revised design haven't come out too well: they exhibit the rippling effect that many people are seeing and Shapeways have now agreed to re-print these for me. This seems to be a common problem at the moment with frosted ultra detail from Shapeways and people are speculating that it is to do with the calibration of the machines. You can make your own mind up and read more about the problem on this thread on Shapeway's forum: http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=40321#msg_4032.
Despite this, I thought I'd have a go at priming the best of the rippled prints and seeing just how well the new LTF-25 design fares... is it any quicker and less fiddly to put together? Four of the prints are totally unusable, whilst the one in the pictures is the best of a bad bunch.
I'll let the pictures tell the story, suffice to say, they go together very easily with Colin Craig's wheels and are nice and free-rolling on the Markits bearings. Plus the wheel sets are now easily removable for e.g. painting.
Twist the wheel set to remove the wheel - being careful not to pop the black plastic bush out:
Thread the Markits bearings onto the axle:
Using a back-to-back gauge, replace the wheel:
Drop in the wheel set from below with the bearings in the centre:
Slide the bearings into position with a pair of tweezers:
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