Further adventures in Photon chainmail. Episode two of many...
After the success of my 5-way and 3-way mail patterns, I re-visited my 6-way pattern to make it a bit tougher. I've remodelled it to have rings that are (I think) about 1.3mm cross section, so they're quite a lot more robust -
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3460640
The main experiment I did today was in knitting together multiple swatches to see whether making a bracelet (or even something larger) from multiple swatches is feasible.
I printed and fully post-processed the first swatch. I printed and washed the second one, but did the joining before I cured it. I went through with a set of side-cutters and nipped the 15 rings down the side of the soft swatch. I knitted them together, which wasn't too bad with a pair of tweezers, then I painted a dot of resin on each of the cuts and zapped them with my UV torch to re-join them. All in all, I think this is a 85% successful effort. Of the 15 rings I needed to cut and re-join, 12 survived the experience. One snapped when I was trying to knit it, and two snapped after they got glued to their neighbours with the resin.
Next step I think will be to print the splits into those rings as an 0.3mm gap or therabouts. Basically large enough I don't need to bend the rings as much, but small enough that the resin's surface tension will let it take up the gap.
I've chucked the 6-way up on Thingiverse for anyone who wants to try it. I've laid the pattern out so they mate end-to-end straight up, and side-by-side with only a small offset:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3460640
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Fred Breton
2019-03-01 15:13:55
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2019-03-01 16:45:01
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