Over the summer, I had been getting a lot of requests from friends for new bottle openers as I had given them out last summer. With my new higher resolution extruder I was able to make far better quality openers than last summer. On the side of the opener I put the shape of Long Island, and it came out excellent, even with all the thin and jagged sections. My first attempt (below) was to try and print 25 at a time using the skeinforge  multiply tool.

Printing 25 bottle openers in parallel

This did not work too well, as the openers started warping pretty early (as compared to a single opener print with no warping). Since the base is square to the nozzle and the bed heat is fairly uniform throughout, this could  be attributed to that fact that each layer takes basically 25 times longer to print because I am printing 25 at a time in parallel (i.e. there is a much larger gap in time between layers being printed on a single opener).

10 Bottle openers printed in parallel

He is a smaller print with 10 openers in parallel. They were able to finish, but almost all were very warped. So I thought that if 1 bottle opener printed at time comes out great, why not just print in series? It takes basically the exact same amount of time.

8 Bottle openers printed in series

Here are 8 bottle openers being printed in series. All it took was some copy/paste of the gcode for a single print, with some offsets so the nozzle did not crash into an already finished print. This method worked excellent.

A sea of 3D printed Long Island bottle openers

I ended up printing somewhere around 40 openers with this series method. The most I made in one print was 16 at a time. They came out great and you can see the detail of long island in the above image.

1. Andres

   October 31, 2011 at 10:59 am #

   As a born and raised Long Islander, now living in Chicago, I have to ask if you made the LIOpener 3d file available anywhere?

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   • Jim

     January 25, 2012 at 11:17 pm #

     Hi Andres, I have not yet made the STL of the long island bottle opener available online – but I will.
2. dung huynh

   January 15, 2012 at 2:51 am #

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3. dung huynh

   January 15, 2012 at 2:53 am #

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4. Juan Jose

   October 20, 2012 at 8:02 pm #

   I like this 3d printer …how much is this unit cost .i live in Bogota .I have a part already ..how can I print them ..is it easy or or what..
   where to buy

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