I hope this will be a good thing - Thingiverse has been stagnating for years, especially when compared to places like Printables and MakerWorld. I can't remember the last time I used Thingiverse for anything.
Yeah, I saw this the other day - Thingiverse was the first 3D print archive I found when I started out - I still check it out occasionally, but it's so dated. It'd be nice to see it move back up and be on par with Printables and Makerworld.
Sunlu has a sale on - £9.50 to £11 for 1 KG PLA and PETG variants. Really fast delivery too - 24 hours in my case. I just bought a bunch of High Speed Matte PETG, black, white and grey which is nice stuff but does NOT print well straight out of the packet. You absolutely need to dry it first, or you get a really rough textured finish.
Elegoo support are at a loss to explain why my CC's camera is not still not working after the replacement camera didn't resolve the issue, so now they're shipping out a replacement mainboard. I've told them the printer is working fine (I'm using it right now), other than the camera feed, so I guess I'll have a spare mainboard and camera. Yay!
Argh!!! Got home from work and immediately went upstairs to the office to print something - I got a cheap Yeti mug because the slider on the lid was missing and I wanted to print something with an embedded magnet. Tapped the screen on my printer - nothing. Um.. oh, I must've switched it off - nope power switch is on. Awww, no, come on. Please! It's fine. Let's call the power issue a high impedance air gap. i.e. the printer was unplugged. But why? My missus had decided to hoover up when I was at work, but she drained the battery on the Shark when she cleaned downstairs, so she broke out the old Dyson and wheeled it into the office. Then she unwound the power flex and walked past a twin outlet wall socket, then past the eight way extension bolted to the side of my desk, into the corner and unplugged my printer to use that particular socket. Rather than have it out about wtf went through her mind to do that, I have "reconfigured" that corner of the office so she can no longer reach the ****ing socket. I needed a tidy up anyway. The slider lid for the Yeti mug came out just fine. I even used @Byron C 's problematic PETG ( it has been drying since before I left for work this morning though).
I'll take her off your hands. The dust monster here has been slowly building up and it takes all day to sweep and dust a single room.
By design. The lower one helps when feeding filament straight from my S4 into the CC. The tallest one isn't a table - more of a trolley - it's basically a mobile workbench but that's where I park it. Still, if it's bothering you, I'll try to post more pictures.
Good to see it’s getting some use, I just cannot get the stuff to print well. Any other brand is fine, maybe a few temp tweaks to reduce stringing. Creality PETG is excellent, in fact.
It is a challenge - certainly not fire and forget, but tuning can produce decent results. There's no way I'd buy more though.
Someone in work has just had a K2 Plus with the filament switcher doodad delivered. Very fancy looking bit of kit. Bloody pricey, too.
10" mini rack module generator https://makerworld.com/en/models/1765102-10-inch-mini-rack-generator#profileId-2512646
I'm keeping an eye on the tool changer that rumoured for the Core L, as that could be brilliant! Did anyone see Anycubic's new printer, the Kobra X? Seems like a brilliant bit of kit for the money, and the multi filament system is genius!
Yeah, it looks brilliant for a bed slinger - I love the little filament cut and purge feature on top of the tool head. Ross at Fauxhammer reckons it will unseat the Bambu A1.
DIY MMU for the Elegoo CC and others https://makerworld.com/en/models/2230530-mfu-multi-filament-unit?from=search
Getting the tolerances right on the O-rings proved a pain, but since you can't put that kind of pressure on a plexi option, I came up with this: -Think of it as a silicone compression ring. The user adds a bead of silicone glue to the base bevel... -With the tube in place, you mash the ring in, pressing the glue into the gaps. Clean up would require mineral spirits and a lOOOng *ss stick. Doing a fillport lid next that needs a big enough opening to repeat this operation. Once done I'll have a model finished. -This devil is close to finished too. I'm struggling with what to do about pass-through points on the cover plates, and user buildability. That gap in the upper 'armpit' is about 3 inches. There's a connection between two radiators in there. The whole top radiator/motherboard tray slides out the back, but the cables feed through a small hole over the motherboard and route through the entire body to the bottom. I'm thinking I'll leave the cover plates blank so people can make their own pass-through points. -Or (shudder) use AIO kits. Seriously, people will be writing songs about how cruel I am. I'm not entirely sure it can even be printed cleanly.
