{"id":336,"date":"2013-03-10T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T21:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/?p=336"},"modified":"2013-03-10T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T21:47:28","slug":"spitfire-mk-v-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Spitfire Mk V grip&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, a buddy sent me an STL file of a Spitfire MkV grip to try to machine on the ShopBot.\u00a0 I tried it and the most usable result (still wrong) took five hours to machine out of a &#8220;billet&#8217; of plywood I made.<\/p>\n<p>I recently finished calibrating my Rostock MAX 3D printer, and decided to give that Spitfire grip another go.<\/p>\n<p>It took 11 hours, 17 minutes and 7 seconds to print.\u00a0 It consumed 35.6 meters of 1.75 silver ABS plastic filament.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a few areas where the overhang is too great and it messed up a tiny bit, but overall I&#8217;m very happy with the result!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_337\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-337\" alt=\"Back of the grip\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-1-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back of the grip<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_338\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-338\" alt=\"Front of the Spitfire grip\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-2-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front of the Spitfire grip<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_339\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-339\" alt=\"Front side, cleaned up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-3-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front side, cleaned up<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_340\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-340\" alt=\"Back side, cleaned up\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-4-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/printed-spit-grip-4.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back side, cleaned up<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The grip is amazingly strong and doesn&#8217;t warp at all when you twist on it.\u00a0 The grip was printed using KisSlicer as the slicing software and uses a 25% infill. 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I recently finished calibrating my Rostock MAX 3D printer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diycockpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}