curious aardvark
Super Moderator
Find latest postsMini Statistics
- Join Date
- 07-15-2014
- Last Activity
- Today 09:22 AM
- Avatar
More 16 Friends
Recent Visitors
This page has had 81,220 visits
- Tab Content
- curious aardvark's Activity
- Visitor Messages
- About Me
- Friends
- Tab Content
-
Older Activity
-
Today, 09:14 AMcurious aardvark replied to a thread What plastic materials can I print? in General 3D Printing DiscussionAnd just because, here's the painted helmet: And yes, the beard needs a trim and god knows I need a haircut ! 18 months. Have to get round to...22 replies | 506 view(s)
-
Today, 08:55 AMI suspect an understanding spouse or partner is also an essential !9 replies | 1491 view(s)
-
Today, 08:50 AMcurious aardvark replied to a thread What plastic materials can I print? in General 3D Printing Discussionyep - it's NOT an ender 3. Presumably the video was funded by creality. two reasons. Dual z axis motors and screws and direct drive extruder. You...22 replies | 506 view(s)
-
Yesterday, 04:14 PMcurious aardvark replied to a thread When to use 'Support' option? in General 3D Printing Discussionwell I may not be much good at maths - but I've got pretty good at working round them :-) The minkowski thing was incredibly frustrating until i...15 replies | 784 view(s)
-
Yesterday, 02:35 PMcurious aardvark replied to a thread Help please. Trying to design a drive cog. in 3D Modeling, Design, Scannersfor the record - tpu with steel pins at the hinges - would work really well and be pretty much indestructible. And it really is a three line...6 replies | 3217 view(s)
-
Yesterday, 02:32 PMthermal runaway is just to stop the bed and hotend overheating. As far as I can gather the smoke appeared as soon as he turned the machine on. ...7 replies | 465 view(s)
-
Yesterday, 01:57 PMcurious aardvark replied to a thread What plastic materials can I print? in General 3D Printing Discussionwell noise is relative. I've got 6 machines - all different, all making different types and volumes of noise. One sounds like r2d2 - which I...22 replies | 506 view(s)
-
04-12-2021, 01:45 PMcurious aardvark replied to a thread When to use 'Support' option? in General 3D Printing Discussiondon't forget to use 'union' Basically union glues everything between it's brackets into a single lump that you can then apply any of the other...15 replies | 784 view(s)
-
04-12-2021, 01:20 PMcurious aardvark replied to a thread New Capricorn bowden tube clogged in 3D Printer Parts, Filament & Materialswhat printer is it ? With some the bowden tube goes all the way to the top of the brass hot end nozzle. So you need to make sure it's really...3 replies | 127 view(s)
-
04-12-2021, 01:05 PMcurious aardvark replied to a thread What plastic materials can I print? in General 3D Printing DiscussionI'll email you the stls - print the direct drive extruder on the ender that way you only have to put it together once. You can probably design a...22 replies | 506 view(s)
-
04-12-2021, 10:40 AMcurious aardvark replied to a thread What plastic materials can I print? in General 3D Printing Discussionthe sovol 01 is a good machine. meets 2 of the three criteria for prusa design I3's - direct drive and dual z axis motors. Has a healthy...22 replies | 506 view(s)
-
04-11-2021, 01:20 PMresponse is easy - actually helping much harder. Clearly something is either plugged in the wronf socket or the main power wires are crossed. ...7 replies | 465 view(s)
-
04-11-2021, 01:11 PMcurious aardvark replied to a thread When to use 'Support' option? in General 3D Printing Discussionnot bad. About the only thing I'd have added would be a way to change the number of magnets and automatically move them about depending on number...15 replies | 784 view(s)
-
04-11-2021, 01:02 PMyou know there's real money in a machine that can print a working cat !77 replies | 11461 view(s)
-
04-11-2021, 12:49 PMyou're really not reading my posts. I explained the thingiverse confusion, fairly comprehensively - several times.7 replies | 661 view(s)
-
04-10-2021, 04:42 PMPretty much all the car stuff, totally lost on me :-) I literally only used a car analogy because this morning we drove past a ferrari on the road...12 replies | 586 view(s)
-
04-10-2021, 09:57 AMwhy is a ferrari faster than a cheap station wagon ? Design and build quality. okay lets compare and contrast: Sapphire pro2: Quality...12 replies | 586 view(s)
-
04-09-2021, 07:01 PMDont know what BOT got in for that bogus netflix post... but I did promise some pics... they pretty much show my evolution of CURA settings as well...7 replies | 1292 view(s) -
04-09-2021, 10:40 AMNot that I've ever noticed. And i still watch prints a fair bit - after all these years, I still find the whole process fascinating. Given that...77 replies | 11461 view(s)
-
04-08-2021, 04:26 PMThe other thing that really effects printing time - particularly with smaller models. Is the speed you print the first layer at. If you've got...12 replies | 586 view(s)
-
04-08-2021, 11:18 AMseems about right. You may well have unrealistic expectations of print speeds :-) What you could do is to increase the layer height to 0.3mm...12 replies | 586 view(s)
-
04-07-2021, 10:05 AMyeah - well generally I'm using pla at 205c and with a 0.4mm nozzle and happily printing at a max of 150mm/s and on the same profile a minimum of...77 replies | 11461 view(s)
-
04-07-2021, 09:37 AMcurious aardvark replied to a thread When to use 'Support' option? in General 3D Printing DiscussionNow you're getting it :-) If you bear in mkind how a 3d printer works whilst you are designing. You pretty much never need to use supports. ...15 replies | 784 view(s)
-
04-07-2021, 09:26 AMcurious aardvark replied to a thread Needing some help on a project. in General 3D Printing Discussionumm, well you'd be laying down in the bath not standing up. So do the 'soap skates' attach to the soap, to you or to the bath ? And what do...3 replies | 179 view(s)
-
04-06-2021, 03:53 PMcurious aardvark replied to a thread When to use 'Support' option? in General 3D Printing Discussionif you wanted to make that completely without supports. print the shaft and bottom cylinder as one piece. then have a hole through the second...15 replies | 784 view(s)
-
04-06-2021, 03:39 PMyou managed to fry a stepper motor ? That's not easy. Definitely check your wiring. did you get any assembly instructions with the machine ? ...7 replies | 465 view(s)
-
04-06-2021, 11:07 AMlmao - you're like a kid in a toy shop :-) That does look pretty good. I'd like to see one pushing flexible filament at speed. That's pretty...77 replies | 11461 view(s)
-
04-06-2021, 10:41 AMcurious aardvark replied to a thread Problems with Extruder on Tronxy XY-2 Pro in Tips, Tricks and Tech Helpmake sure that the bowden tube (the white plastic filament that carries the filament from the extruder to the hot end/printhead) is pushed in really...1 replies | 324 view(s)
-
04-06-2021, 10:31 AMone thing to try - and martin_au reminded me that all deirect extruder setups have different length filament paths. Check the retraction settings. ...16 replies | 977 view(s)
-
04-06-2021, 10:20 AMthe problem with perimeter/layer numbers and thickness is that different slicers do it differently. Some let you set and actual thickness - say...26 replies | 1061 view(s)
4 Visitor Messages
About curious aardvark
Basic Information
Statistics
Total Posts
- Total Posts
- 8,316
- Posts Per Day
- 3.37
Visitor Messages
- Total Messages
- 4
- Most Recent Message
- 05-15-2015 07:56 AM
General Information
- Last Activity
- Today 09:22 AM
- Join Date
- 07-15-2014
16 Friends
Showing Friends 1 to 10 of 16
What plastic materials can I print?
Today, 08:50 AM in General 3D Printing Discussion