You know you've been 3d printing too long when...  

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amen to that, when your first stop for household miscellany (hooks, paper towel holders, etc.) is Thingiverse and not the store 🙂

Had a discussion recently where we realized that despite being plastic, 3d printing is probably quite a bit greener than it gets credit for compared to traditional fabrication:

-> Only made on-demand, no excess stock.

-> No packaging waste vs a store bought item

->No/reduced transport costs (you don't need to go to the store, and filament packs a lot more efficiently in a given space than the widgets it becomes

-> Easy repair if part of it breaks

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Needed to lift new center channel speak 2.5 inches ... so rather than use a couple plastic bins I have laying around, I'm printing pretty freshly designed unique speaker stands.  It even crossed my mind to go buy some pretty gold tone filament to match the TV stand... then thought sheesh - that's crazy.  So I went with silver.

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Posted by: Migamix

 

i have only been printing for about 1 year. ive gone full throttle into it. but yes, everything i look at now seems to have an "i need it, i'll make it"

A friend of mine got me this shirt from Amazon for my birthday:

https://www.amazon.com/3D-Printing-Shirt-Printer-T-Shirt/dp/B07L2QQLB6

(To be fair, I found it and put it on my wishlist...)

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Posted by: Tim

Needed to lift new center channel speak 2.5 inches ... so rather than use a couple plastic bins I have laying around, I'm printing pretty freshly designed unique speaker stands.  It even crossed my mind to go buy some pretty gold tone filament to match the TV stand... then thought sheesh - that's crazy.  So I went with silver.

I had a hell of a time finding room lights I liked. So I got some lamp cords, LED bulbs, and made my own to sit on top of some DETOLF display cabinets!

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Guilty.  I can’t imagine life without one.  

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When life is just a squeeze through a small hole.

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Posted by: Nigel

When life is just a squeeze through a small hole.

um, giggity?

@sembazuru sold (after looking around at some of the shirts, i found this , notice there is no filament left, ready for the "ya'mama so fat" jokes)

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That shirt is hilarious.

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You look at the results of a fender bender and wonder how many replacement parts you could just print...

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When your wife gives you that choice between her and that next new printer and you hesitate ..

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Posted by: gary.s4

When your wife gives you that choice between her and that next new printer and you hesitate ..

Soooo.... what printer did you get? 😀

(It was either that or, "S'ok, you can always print another...")

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On the X Axis of my 5th MK3S and waiting right behind that is a CR-10S-Pro .. heh .. heh

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I thought I was bad - 2 Prusa, Ender 3, CR-10S Pro, and a Anycubic Predator.  

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Ha.. Yup .. we're bad .. ordered the bl Touch and the glass plate for the CR-10S Pro BTW .. 

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Why did you order the BL Touch?  It has a sensor already.  

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Reports of problems due to the capacitive auto level sensor being sensitive to temperature/moisture resulting in shifts up to .2mm? Basically lots of problems due to the type of sensor..

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Posted by: gary.s4

Reports of problems due to the capacitive auto level sensor being sensitive to temperature/moisture resulting in shifts up to .2mm? Basically lots of problems due to the type of sensor..

Depending on what specific issue is being discussed, using a PINDA/bed warmup during startup provides very consistent results. 

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Posted by: bobstro

Posted by: gary.s4

Reports of problems due to the capacitive auto level sensor being sensitive to temperature/moisture resulting in shifts up to .2mm? Basically lots of problems due to the type of sensor..

Depending on what specific issue is being discussed, using a PINDA/bed warmup during startup provides very consistent results. 

Actually Bob - I am struggling with this exact issue right now.  The run to run variation is getting seriously old; and attempts to use the bed level correction is adding to the trauma.   I am now running tests moving left from -100 to +100 to see if there is actually any effect in Layer 1 tests; and so far, DING - nada- zilch - zero.  I think we can agree a 0.200 micron change should be visible (200um = 0.2 mm). lol.

So I'm beginning to wonder just how reliable the entire Prusa version of mesh leveling is.   It seems much less repeatable than Meniot's v3.6 with 7x7 ... I am now thinking Prusa somehow mucked up the code when they tried to add magnet comp (that also has zero effect when enabled/disabled).  That or they implemented the same lame curve fitting they've always done.

And on the fun side: realizing that my eyes aren't the only ones that acting up as the years pile on:

What's wrong with this picture?

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... you call the soap dispenser in the restroom "an extruder" (well, technically - it is).

or

... your wife refuses to tell you what she wants for items around the house because she knows how long it will take to design and build.

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Posted by: Tim

Posted by: bobstro

So I'm beginning to wonder just how reliable the entire Prusa version of mesh leveling is.   It seems much less repeatable than Meniot's v3.6 with 7x7 ... I am now thinking Prusa somehow mucked up the code when they tried to add magnet comp (that also has zero effect when enabled/disabled).  That or they implemented the same lame curve fitting they've always done.

 

What's wrong with this picture?

 

Heh, I think I had the same connector issue.

When I first went to 7x7 MBL, it fixed things so I didn't have to use the wait-10-minutes/temperature/etc stuff anymore.

Recently, I find it's just a bit more picky, but I think that's due to using different materials on the textured bed - I was printing on the hairy edge and still had great luck with more prints AND no elephant foot.

In short, does the printer think the bed is level in the first place - i.e. it's variability and not just unlevel? I micro-leveled the bed (with the y-axis bolts instead of any washer thing) and it helped a lot (before the 7x7 thing).