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welp, they laughed at the screw extractor, so i'm down until my new block and break arrive. let this be a lesson about properly calibrating and checking precision tools.
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Jul 20, 2021 15:05
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Every 2-3 weeks I'll check out the Simplify3D forums for poo poo and giggles. The mods are still trying to keep up the appearance of a functioning company and ongoing development. Must still be pretty profitable to be doing that.
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If it's volunteer mods, never underestimate True Believers who are also given a tin pot dictatorship.
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The main one is a paid employee, I dunno about any others.
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Just sharing some info. Apparently if you need to scan something and don't wanna spend  on scan spray, dry shampoo works pretty well.I know we have some people with scanners in here somewhere, but this was the first time I'd heard of a substitute. Hope it helps someone!
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I wasn't part of the 3d printing community during its infancy, but does anyone know why 0.4mm became the "default" nozzle size?
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Some jackass probably figured out that it was a reasonable compromise between printing speed and detail, and had some source of them that wasn't exorbitantly expensive.
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Jul 21, 2021 00:50
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The early nozzles were machined directly into the heater block, so the size was a matter of whatever drill you wanted to use. Individually replaceable nozzles like we have now weren't a thing for the first several years. (I'm arbitrarily choosing the RepRap project as the beginning of the current era of 3D printing). Here is a J-head, one of the more popular early hotends. The whole brass part is one piece. The "heating cartridge" is a big fat resistor. lol  I assume they chose 0.4mm because that's about the size of nozzle that Stratasys was using in their Dimension printers, so it had been demonstrated to work well. It's also possible that in the early days someone ran a bunch of tests with different sizes and settled on that for the early RepRaps, but early print quality was so lovely that it would have been hard to really make a good judgment. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Alright bros. I last posted here asking about which printers to buy, and y'all gave me solid recs. Of those, I'm about to pull the trigger on a Raise3D E2. Use case is printing electronics enclosures for prototyping and small production runs. And accessories to attach to enclosures, including off-the-shelf ones like mounting hooks, display mounts etc. Mostly in ABS. I'm going to throw the Ender in a dumpster. My time and sanity aren't worth it.
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If you bought an ender 3, buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Creality-Capricorn-Upgraded-Pneumatic-Bed-level/dp/B081DN6RM2/ It's $20. It solves most of the ender problems. Sagebrush posted:The early nozzles were machined directly into the heater block, so the size was a matter of whatever drill you wanted to use. Individually replaceable nozzles like we have now weren't a thing for the first several years. (I'm arbitrarily choosing the RepRap project as the beginning of the current era of 3D printing). .... I'm from that era...   I don't want to go back to that. Ever. I also spent most of last week trying to get a geeetech i3 to print properly. And being stopped becuase I can't be bothered to actually fit the anti wobble parts.
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Jul 21, 2021 09:10
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New OP is good and informative, nice. Last one was fine but 11 years old.
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Jul 21, 2021 14:07
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If anyone in Canada is desperate to find resin. Eryone resin has been pretty solid and available. I can't comment to its brittleness because I've been mixing in 10% flex resin for minis, but it's incredibly cheap through Alibaba and seems pretty on par with any other anycubic, elegoo etc low odor resin
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I'm more desperate to find B-PET or rPETG so I can print out of recycled plastic, but then again I'm an FDM guy
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GonadTheBallbarian posted:I'm more desperate to find B-PET or rPETG so I can print out of recycled plastic, but then again I'm an FDM guy If you're willing to pay extra for it: https://www.filamentive.com/product/recycled-petg-rpetg-1kg-transparent/ EDIT: Pretty much everything there is recycled filament.
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w00tmonger posted:If anyone in Canada is desperate to find resin. Eryone resin has been pretty solid and available. I had to switch to Eryone last month because Siraya's Canadian stock ran out. I bought all the Eryone grey available, and now I'm printing in a vivid peach colour because that's all they had left. Way more brittle than the abs stuff from Siraya of course, but this is some great resin. The details are super crisp and the cost is 50% of what I was paying Siraya. I might not go back to Siraya.
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w00tmonger posted:If anyone in Canada is desperate to find resin. Eryone resin has been pretty solid and available. That's a great tip, thanks for sharing!
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InternetJunky posted:I had to switch to Eryone last month because Siraya's Canadian stock ran out. I bought all the Eryone grey available, and now I'm printing in a vivid peach colour because that's all they had left. Out of curiosity, you still rocking vroom? I've had some support failures with my black, and seeing some layerlines artifacts occasionally. (Mixing 10% tenacious) My costs are waaaay down vs sirayatech so I'll definitely be using this vs sirayatech. Still likely going to Vulcan when it comes out in September though w00tmonger fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Jul 21, 2021 20:28
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biracial bear for uncut posted:If you're willing to pay extra for it: https://www.filamentive.com/product/recycled-petg-rpetg-1kg-transparent/ That's pretty cool! Expensive, but I'll bookmark that! Currently my latest PETG print is giving me fits even though the last three prints before it (identical parts, mind you) were fine. So it'll be a while before I go back to that bastard material
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InternetJunky posted:I had to switch to Eryone last month because Siraya's Canadian stock ran out. I bought all the Eryone grey available, and now I'm printing in a vivid peach colour because that's all they had left. Siraya's stuff is/was in customs warehouse purgatory, they post updates with dates on their FB group- there should be lots of inventory coming through 'soon'.
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Ordered a Raise3d E2.
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w00tmonger posted:Out of curiosity, you still rocking vroom? I've had some support failures with my black, and seeing some layerlines artifacts occasionally. (Mixing 10% tenacious) I'm also looking forward to Vulcan. I'm tempted to just place an order for 50L now rather than go through the whole trial phase.
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While reading this new thread my hand must have slipped and it seemed like page 2 was talking about electrical wiring and I was gettin mad about the derail until I realized it was now reading the House Wiring thread. Thanks for listening. Please like and subscribe.
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Jul 21, 2021 23:12
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 You repeatedly broke the Second Law, and now you're breaking the Third. Go to the place you summoned your spaghetti monsters from.
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What a waste. So many good parts to salvage from that, especially the power supply.
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Jul 22, 2021 00:09
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Stand near it and press △ to harvest the metal shards and components.
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Definitely dig that power supply out and uh...maybe the motors? That's about it.
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Maybe the binder clips too
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some of the wires contain valuable copper!
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Trip report: got my order in of the 10 rolls of pla+ I mentioned a few days ago. Came shipped ups. Haven't had a chance to unbox yet, but they showed up really quick. I'm happy so far.
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My brother sent me an Anycubit Photon Mono so I can print some miniatures and things. It's sitting here idle until the resin arrives but I am very excited to start printing. Is there anything I should pick up to make my life easier? Ordered a UV lamp and turn table, some plant based black resin, and a bunch of 99% isopropyl for washing. Is a flexible bed worth it, or can I get by with the putty knife?
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You can get by with the regular bed just fine. Get some long tweezers or narrow tongs, a sealable wide-mouthed container for the alcohol, some kind of plastic tray to set everything in, and a big pack of disposable gloves.
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Diabeesting posted:My brother sent me an Anycubit Photon Mono so I can print some miniatures and things. It's sitting here idle until the resin arrives but I am very excited to start printing. Normal beds fine, but beingn able to print bases flat on the bed is a godsend. In the long run you'll save yourself a ton of effort just going that way Buy a fuckton of nitrile gloves and papertowel. Also a wash and cure is technically a bit frivalous but will really streamline the cleaning process for you down the road Myminifactory is a good spot for individual models, but if you find someone you like I highly recommend finding their Patreon and just spending the $10 to at least grab a month+welcome box from them and cancelling
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Epic miniatures patreon is pretty great. I don't even play RPGs but I'm still a patreon cause the models look badass and it's like 5 bucks a month. They hooked me with the grinning beholder.
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Dominoes posted:
You should get some friends together and re-enact that scene from Office Space.
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I'd like to talk about nitrile gloves for resin/print handling since as an alternative I'm actually using super cheopo sandwich gloves similar to what the workers at Subway would use (https://www.amazon.ca/Ronco-Deli-Medium-Disposable-Gloves/dp/B00QEGN8TE/ref=sr_1_10). Most of the time the glove is on for about 10 seconds total (take off flex plate, scrape off prints, put plate back on) and using a nitrile glove for that becomes kind of expensive if you print a lot. They are also great when taking the vats off the machine, since I can take the vat off with one set of gloves and then quickly put on clean gloves and not risk accidentally transferring uncured resin from the gloves underneath the vat. That being said, for all I know maybe resin can leech through the plastic instantly and I've been slowly poisoning myself for months.
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InternetJunky posted:I'd like to talk about nitrile gloves for resin/print handling since as an alternative I'm actually using super cheopo sandwich gloves similar to what the workers at Subway would use (https://www.amazon.ca/Ronco-Deli-Medium-Disposable-Gloves/dp/B00QEGN8TE/ref=sr_1_10). Most of the time the glove is on for about 10 seconds total (take off flex plate, scrape off prints, put plate back on) and using a nitrile glove for that becomes kind of expensive if you print a lot. They are also great when taking the vats off the machine, since I can take the vat off with one set of gloves and then quickly put on clean gloves and not risk accidentally transferring uncured resin from the gloves underneath the vat. I think there is a pretty high risk of that with gloves so thin. I did the opposite, I have heavy duty nitrile cleaning gloves that I have been using for months, I switch over to normal gloves for detail work but otherwise this has saved me hundreds of gloves/waste.
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Disposable chopsticks. Seriously. You can't do everything with them (especially removing build plates and such) but when you need to fish things out of vats or cleaning solution, they save you a lot of gloves.
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I am a bold and risky man and have been doing most of my resin work with only one glove on
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Going through a ChemE degree filled me with enough stories about the consequences of treating "mostly safe" materials without due respect that I won't go near my resin printer without gloves, long sleeves, and a mask.
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