I’m trying to print a 10” rack, but Amazon has been arsing me around with a delivery of PETG since Saturday. Ordered on Friday for delivery on Saturday. No word all day on Saturday. The other half of the order turned up as expected yesterday, but no filament. It’s now “estimated” for today, but whether I’ll actually get anything remains to be seen. I ****ing hate that company, but there’s nowhere else I can get filament as cheaply as they offer. Surprisingly, quite a while ago Works in much the same way as carbon/glass fibre reinforced filaments. You’re not actually “melting” wood, the wood particles are suspended in the plastic.
If you were suitably impressed and inspired by my swashbuckling, caution to the wind and, let's be honest, downright heroic approach to 3D printing... ...don't forget to enable Brims in the slicer. AKA, I lost a fiver. Umm... ooops.
Agreed on the rainforest, I was listening to Start the Week on R4 this morning with Cory Doctorow talking about Ensh!tt!f!cation, and the Amazon model was discussed. I REALLY try not to use them because of what they have done to markets Interesting to know that is how it works. Looks like you can create CF infused "space spaghetti" rather too easily. Sorry to see that Dave, hope round 2 goes better
Yeah, I updated the slicing app and plain forgot to check Brims were still enabled. The half of the case that did print has taught me that snug supports are a sh!tty idea too, so not a total waste.
I've been trying to print some figures for tabletop gaming. It's not a task well suited to my printer but I don't need the quality to be all the great.Problem is I keep getting failure after failure. Changing settings, supports blah blah, no joy. Googled best settings and some of the options don't feature on my slicer. Made me think about the software I'm using which is some version of Creality Slicer. Dumped it for vanilla Cura and without changing anything in it other than setting bed size and nozzle diameter it's now soooo much better.
What model database would you recommend for an uploader ? I guess I also need some kind of payment/donation company... That would probably need a bank account...
There’s a couple of “bigger” ones to choose from, I tend to use either printables.com (Prusa) or markerworld.com (Bambu). There’s always the old-school Thingiverse, but that doesn’t seem to be as popular these days. Out of all of them, I prefer printables myself - that tends to be my “go to”.
wood filament plus these guys settings is pretty decent https://www.printables.com/model/1420021-add-wood-grain-effects-to-your-models-prusaslicer
Some chappie in Vietnam is developing his own MMU for the Centauri Carbon... um... can't embed a YT short on the forum for some reason.. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G3xDQ15e-wY
Have people been seeing the mad things Prusa have been doing? Both the head changer for the Core L and the new tool heads for the XL (a silicon one and apparently they're testing a threaded insert pick and place head), as well as all of the other things!
Aye, I printed the Mod10 rack. Fair warning: it took just over 1kg of PETG for the rack and a 2U “extension” section, without any shelves; it takes a lot of cage nuts to assemble; and the design costs $6. I used around 100 cage nuts in total, by the time I added all the shelves. It’s a neat design though IMO. I’ll put up a build thread… once I’ve eventually sorted out my image hosting…
Out of all the ones I've seen, the Mod10 is what I'd choose. Thing is, if the CC2 is anything to go by, I'm not sure I want it. If you're going to have a massive top hat on your printer, it should encompass the filament reels too, not have them stuck on the side like a damned afterthought.
I wasn't. Ok, I'll admit, I did lean into the research a fair bit earlier in the year, but I resisted. Then Byron started up on it again... He's a bugger, you know
