3D printer arriving soon (again)!

Order update!
Finally a breakthrough! I have to admit I feel a bit weary of the waiting and especially weary of receiving emails indicating over and over again my printer is soon done, but still have to wait some more. Delays were expected but it really starts to grow tiresome when you know that it was supposed to be here.

However about a week ago, I received an email with confirmation that my printer has been dispatched and on it's way. I've been following the tracking information closely and happy to discover that at this time being, the printer have arrived here in Norway and is currently located at the Custom Clearance sort facility. It's almost finally here, and that makes me both happy and a bit worried at the same time. Everything going through Custom clearance here in Norway means I have to pay additional 24% of the value of the item in just tax, which is massive considering how much the printer costs... Sigh.
But after a such a long wait, I'm more than blissful to know that my printer should be here within a week.

Remember I wrote about Solidoodle having 5 months lead time on their products? And if it weren't for that long lead time, I might as well went for that one instead. Guess what. I recently spoke with a guy who ordered from Solidoodle in early January, and he already received his just after a single month! Solidoodle have really been improving their work power to balance out the high demand and decrease the lead time. Well, the joke is on me then. I thought I would receive my printer within 60 days. And by now it's less than a week to we hit March, which hits the 90 days mark; three months instead of two.

Anyways, it is soon here now. I've been spending most of my time since the last blog entry with setting up a dedicated work space for both 3d printing and a general workbench with tools which will become handy for my later plans. More about what tools will prove useful will come later.

In the meanwhile, check out this cool student work of someone printing out their digital character, and assembling it like it was a build kit before finishing it off with some paint!
http://www.evl.uic.edu/sjames/pumpkin3D/

Also check out this easy and cheap Acetone bath trick to smooth out parts printed in ABS.

http://blog.reprap.org/2013/02/vapor-treating-abs-rp-parts.html

-WJ