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just one question.

Why are you building a 1950's science fiction rocket fleet ?

I need to know :-)

The cabinet is a lot smaller than it looks. It's pretty weird. Sort of a reverse tardis....

My sapphire pro has two of those fans, one each side.
And blows in a wide fan from both sides.
I could improve it quite significant;y with a shaped duct each side, insted of the metal deflectors....

The problem you have is that everybody knows that stratasys printers have locked in stratasys materials, and stratasys really make their filaments stupidly expensive.

These days for $500 you can...

what printer is it ?

sounds like fun.

drop me a pm, depending on the quality and accuracy of the camera scan from the phone, it shouldn't be overly difficult.
Desingnign from scratch, would be very time consuming...

very nice indeed !

so what's the biggest thing you can make ?

You could probably print the main body of a pinball cabinet in 2 or 3 pieces :-)

Sooo, how fast can you run it ?

well blue colourant makes for more elastic filament.
I have various coulour tpus and blue is hands down the floppiest.

Well the only bowden printer I still have is the delta.

On that i use...

Could it be looking for firmware to install ?

It's an ender 3 mate, you buy junk, don't expect miracles.

They are an extremely poor mechanical design, often coupled with the cheapest and nastiest components the various manufacturers can get...

try adding pictures now.
also a pic of the printer might also be useful.

I would imagine it's a bog standard stepper motor.

but 2012, who knows :-)
There were still some odd bits of kit...

it should blow it IN.
Towards the heatbreak :-)

okay - lowering the temperature will generally INCREASE stringing. As the colder foilament is more inclined to stretch.
185 is way to low to print pla.
200 is the absolute minimum temp I'll use...

check the 'z axis offset' in cura.

It's an adjustable option, so maybe has been set really high.

should be absolutely fine.

polyurethane is uv and chemical resistant to a pretty impressive degree.
As long as oyu print the gaskets solid, should be ideal :-)

think you've pretty m uch answered your own question.

At a speed as slow as 60mm/s yeah infill squares that size are going to make a difference.

Never heard it called 'pillowing' before - but...

hmm - give us a ball park set of figures.

ie: max budget and min budget.

'cos off tyhe top of my head the best printer I've ever seen was a metal printer that comes in at nearly a million...

bear in mind the 300% is assuming you are using 0.1mm layer height.
If you make the layer taller, remember to adjust the initial layer height accordingly.

You never want to go over 0.4mm.
So...

or just link here, we don;t mind links to 3d printers :-)

It's actually a $79 dollar printer :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlyRrMbV25w

so, guessing no heated bed ?

What you can do is...

lol, so what have you done to it ?

Looks like a corexy - my favourite current design in fdm printers.

well that's the surface a raft always leaves.

So don't use rafts :-)

What printer is it ?

I mean, there are only two things that can go wrong with the hotend, and you've changed one already :-)
So odds are good it's the other one.

where's the update ?

To be honest, I rarely use the actual program now as the thumnails work for most of what I need :-)

But definitely interested to see what you come up with next !

Hmm, well if you grip the heatblock at the wrong place when changing the nozzle, you can damage the wires for the heater cartridge and the thermistor.

So change the heater cartridge as well.

Yep, mechanical issue.

Most 3d printer problems are mechanical in origin.

Although not according to youtube lol

Not that youtubers have a vested interest in selling hardware, of course not...

print settings usually consist of outlines, top and bottom layers and infill.

I usually use 3 outlines, 3 top and 3 bottom layers.

But for somethings a single outline works better.

You...