Random 3D printing chatter

Rob_B said:
And clicky things, I did some skulls for Halloween and the kids went mad for them. Also it uses up any spare switches you may have: D

Skulls - clicky skulls
These print really nicely - clicky bananas
these are fun and the kids liked them - shoelace skulls

..and this, because I love it soy fish lamp
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I bought a pack of keythingy bits but never actually got around tp printing anything for them, same with the magsafe watch and phone bases, never printed owt for them either, or the keyrings I got...
Maybe I should find stuff to print, then get the other hardware rather than the other way round..
 
About to get a P2S combo soon, just waiting for delivery. It's going to be going in my garage, but I'd like to sit it on the foam & slab combo to try and keep it dampended and low noise for the room above the garage. Is anyone else rocking that type of setup? I have some concrete slabs I pulled up last year in the garden but just need to work out what's the best foam material to use?
 
Yeah i think most of us are doing something like that. I've just installed the anti vibration feet on mine as well for good luck and actually you might get away without the massed concrete underneath. But I have loads of slabs spare so I've got everything
 
Running an X1C just on the hard floor with stock feet. It's the other side of a stud wall (that probably has insulation in it) and you can't hear a thing. If you're talking a bedroom above it and you're planning to print overnight, you might find it's more audible. Although I think the 2 series are supposed to be a bit quieter anyway.
 
Here's a weird one. You may remember that I had a problem with my Centauri Carbon last month which turned out to be buggy firmware after being instructed by Elegoo to flash back to the original? Well even though it worked it wasn't quite right to me, for a start the print head didn't seem to return to it's "home" position over the poop chute properly and started melting the front edge of the poop chute. I tried printing for the first time in a week today and nothing would adhere to the print bed no matter what I tried. On closer inspection the hot end wasn't even getting close to the plate and was just dropping filament in mid air so I switched it off and started taking it apart. Once I took the hotend assembly out I noticed that from the side it appeared to be bent so I got my trusty square out and it was indeed bent forward by around 8 degrees which explained why it was sitting half on half off the edge of the poop chute. The thing is for it to be bent it would have to have happened while returning to the rear of the compartment and would have took a hell of a whack to bend it because I tried to bend it by hand and couldn't so either the faulty firmware caused it to catch the front edge of the bed while returning to the reat or it must have been faulty from the box (it was the spare that came with the accessories) and I didn't notice it when fitting it. Luckily I had a spare that I bought from Amazon after I fitted the spare (I am trying to always have a spare) and once I let it do a full calibration everything is working fine again. Has anybody else had or heard of a hot end getting bent in use?
 
I've got one. I'm not even sure how it happened to be honest and I only noticed once I'd taken it out - possibly for a clog. So yeah, has happened and with very little drama too. Wasn't printing particularly badly either!
 
I have some replacements coming from Aliexpress, £18 for a pair delivered!! The £17 one I got from Amazon is working great, just as good as a official one.
 
I've been watching loads of videos on the Snapmaker U1 and think I'm going to buy one next year, once pre-orders are fulfilled and there's a lot more feedback on the machine outside the sponsored YT reviews. It looks like a decent machine and for multicolour printing nothing comes close at the price range.
 
I reckon that's going to be a game changer and that the tool swapping is the way to go. It will be interesting to see how many other manufacturers go down a similar road.
 
If I hadnt got the Kobra S1 a few months before, I would have gone for the Snapmaker tbh, but I've not long had the S1 and don't have space for 2 printers..
 
Complete and total disaster! I have a spool of PETG that is totally loose! From a series of unfortunate events that started with putting it on a spool made of PLA and got worse from there, I now have what resembles a giant orange slinky on my office floor.

It seems to tangle and twist and try to kink whenever I pick it up and try to work it. Is there anything to be done for it or would you generally just give up if you have a complete runaway like this? I was thinking maybe I could wind as much of it as I could and snip segments and just feed it off the side of the printer without the AMS?
 
Do you have an empty spool? You wouldn't be the first to need to rewind onto a fresh spool, it's a tedious job but absolutely achievable. The key thing is to respect the bend the filament already has when you rewind it, don't try to reshape it.
 
shroomz said:
Complete and total disaster! I have a spool of PETG that is totally loose! From a series of unfortunate events that started with putting it on a spool made of PLA and got worse from there, I now have what resembles a giant orange slinky on my office floor.

It seems to tangle and twist and try to kink whenever I pick it up and try to work it. Is there anything to be done for it or would you generally just give up if you have a complete runaway like this? I was thinking maybe I could wind as much of it as I could and snip segments and just feed it off the side of the printer without the AMS?
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In all honesty you are better off binning it and buying another one.

It’s not worth the time or effort to save at most £9 of filament.
 
I hate note to bring a more positive note but.....what he said!
There are prints for respoolers like the pastamatic (iirc) and vertical respoolers but you'll need umpteen hours of printing, a couple of rolls of filament and a couple of packs of bearings. If you're anything like me you'll probably print the big base part and then decide just never to buy filament on cardboard spools again (AMS doesn't like 'em).
 
On a separate issue. I had a play with Slant3D's diamond pins for joining two halves of a print and, of course, they work very well. There's just one issue. When they work so well you put them half way up a vertical wall...and then seem surprised they don't come out perfectly with no support :rolleyes:

 
I have a spooler! I made the V spooler especially for this occasion (and funsies obv). It was while i was trying to turn it by hand and hold the unlocked PETG spool together with the other that everything went even more wrong.
RIP fancy orange PETG, I'll pop it into a box for future me to think about.
 
Not on my Bambu, not needed.

That snag cutter was originally made in response to Bambu changing how the end of the spool was attached to the cardboard inner spool.

They started taping them but didn’t do it correctly and the tape detached with the filament and got dragged into the AMS and clogged it.

They’ve since fixed that making the snag cutter redundant again.

Filament getting looped around itself is usually from people letting go of the end when they change spools or not correctly assembling reusable spools.
 
Interesting. I've had exactly that happen to a spool and I think it might have been a Bambu spool - that or maybe Sunlu, who I believe make Bambu's filament anyway. Good to know that shouldn't happen again. I have had one with a slight kink in the end of the filament which meant it got through the AMS but then jammed in the tube from the AMS to the buffer...and the extruder just kept merrily shaving down the filament because filament was detected as being present.
 
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