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TRIP: Thought I'd share a few photos of our trip across the Nullabour Plain. (Treeless plain)  Everyone living in Australia should do this. Had an amazing time and the sights were incredible. Did a total of 7252kmm (4776 miles) in 17 days - and I will do it again. The Raptor performed exceptionally well. Lots to beach driving as well as some off road trials. Unfortunately back to reality now! It sucks!

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PRINTERS: Better get back to the printers to restore my sanity. Have upgraded all the cartographers (Trident 250, Trident 300 Voron 2.4 300 and Voron 2.4 350) to touch and must say I am impressed. Used the Siboor guide and upgraded all 4 machines without issues. Still intending in upgrading to the Beacon H eventually (I have 4 of them in a tub waiting to be used).

Frames are build for the clicky clack (Fridge doors) doors for the above 4 printers. First time I ordered from Misumi - Japan - and boy am I impressed. Quality and packaging - just wow!!. Awaiting the panels from the local supplier and currently printing the hinges, etc.

All printers have been serviced

Also need to bring the V2.4 300 in to update the motor mounts and idlers with the aluminium parts that has been sitting around for the past 6 months or so! Sigh...........

Also need to decide what to do with the two ender 5's in storage. (a 5 and 5 Plus). Both are heavily modified already with linear rails and stealth burner toolheads. Was going to buy a Ratrig VCore 4 for something to do,  but at nearly $5000AUD, I just cannot justify it, no matter how much I love this hobby. So do something with the enders!

@7milesup - I have bitten the bullet and self sourced the parts for the Armored turtle - BoxTurtle. Have ordered the custom PCB and this has just shipped. Will do a build diary once all the parts are received. Kits are on backorder here in Oz (shipping in January 2025) and sell for around $500AUD. Sourced all the parts including the custom PCB for around $220AUD (including shipping) and should have all parts here in a couple of weeks.

So for multicolour printing:

Voron 2.4 350 - ERCF V2

Trident 300 - Tradrack

Voron 2.4 300 - Tradrack

Trident 250 - Intend to use armored turtle

Til next time!

 

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Thanks for sharing your trip photos those coastline photos are 😍. I'm glad you had a great trip! I appreciate the feedback on Cartographer's touch and looking at installing that on my Trident. You'll love the Fridge door 👍. Be interesting to follow your Armored Turtle build.

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Ahhh, Australia. The land of "big" things and literal names for stuff
Snowy Mountains
Big Pinapple
Big Banana
Big Poo (it's supposed to be a potato, look it up. Robertson's big potato)
Oh, and submarines docked in land locked country towns (Holbrook)

Didn't realise we also have a Big Galah?!

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1 hour ago, Pauly said:

Didn't realise we also have a Big Galah?!

Found it in Kimba.

And a few more big things from the trip - as you said a lot of big things!

Murray Cod  (Swan Hill)           Kalgoorlie Open Mine Truck                     Eucla Whale                                            Big Kangaroo (Border Village)

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Big Windmill. (Penong)

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Kalgoorlie Open Mine - A BIG pit                                                                             Great White Shark  (Streaky Bay)                                              

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Big Crayfish  (Rosetown)                                                         Big Apple (Adelaide - Not New York City)

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Big Bench. (Broken Hill)                                       Dinosaur Ant (Poochera)

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Had a look at that potato on the web  - I agree - a big Poo rather than potato

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1 hour ago, claudermilk said:

You guys seem to have an affinity for overscale statues of things (except the mine truck--those are just that ridiculously huge).

They need overscaled things, have you seen how freaking big Oz is?

I was staggered when I flew over it, MAMBA (miles and miles of bugger all). 

 

 

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8 hours ago, claudermilk said:

You guys seem to have an affinity for overscale statues of things (except the mine truck--those are just that ridiculously huge).

A bit of fun, we made a point of stopping at all the big things along the way.

 

7 hours ago, TitusADuxass said:

They need overscaled things, have you seen how freaking big Oz is?

A 5 hour flight to cross from the East coast (Sydney)  to the west coast (Perth) of Australia and a 4.5  hour flight from the South( Melbourne) to the North (Darwin).

And as you said - All MAMBA 😄

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7 hours ago, mvdveer said:

A bit of fun, we made a point of stopping at all the big things along the way.

A 5 hour flight to cross from the East coast (Sydney)  to the west coast (Perth) of Australia and a 4.5  hour flight from the South( Melbourne) to the North (Darwin).

And as you said - All MAMBA 😄

I flew with Emirates on the A380, non-stop Dubia to Sidney - I lost the will to live at one stage. Then I met a troop of female real estate agents in the bar and got sh'tfaced.

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