Whw6065
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well 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...

for 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...

thermal 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. ...

well noise is relative. I've got 6 machines - all different, all making different types and volumes of noise. One sounds like r2d2 - which I...

don'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...

what 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...

I'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...

the 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...

response is easy - actually helping much harder. Clearly something is either plugged in the wronf socket or the main power wires are crossed. ...

not 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...

you know there's real money in a machine that can print a working cat !

you're really not reading my posts. I explained the thingiverse confusion, fairly comprehensively - several times.

Pretty 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...

why is a ferrari faster than a cheap station wagon ? Design and build quality. okay lets compare and contrast: Sapphire pro2: Quality...

Not 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...

The other thing that really effects printing time - particularly with smaller models. Is the speed you print the first layer at. If you've got...

seems about right. You may well have unrealistic expectations of print speeds :-) What you could do is to increase the layer height to 0.3mm...

yeah - 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...

Now 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. ...

umm, 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...

if you wanted to make that completely without supports. print the shaft and bottom cylinder as one piece. then have a hole through the second...

you managed to fry a stepper motor ? That's not easy. Definitely check your wiring. did you get any assembly instructions with the machine ? ...

lmao - 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...

make 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...

one thing to try - and martin_au reminded me that all deirect extruder setups have different length filament paths. Check the retraction settings. ...

the problem with perimeter/layer numbers and thickness is that different slicers do it differently. Some let you set and actual thickness - say...

can you take a couple pics of the back of the printer please - I can't find any online. But - yep, every bit as good as I hoped it would be. ...

it's relevant because I had no idea that 'customiser' was anything but a tool to lay out a script and make it more friendly to the thingiverse front...

thought the customiser bit was just to make scripts that thingiverse liked. So is it actually useful ? While I do post stl's on thingiverse I...

sounds like a possible covid issue. Ie: whatever pigment was being used has now been changed to a different chemical or additive. The original...