You know you've been 3d printing too long when...
... you try to flex a baking sheet to pop off some stuck cookies.
I figured I'd start a humorous topic - Share your own stories of 3d printing habits you've accidentally tried to apply in other parts of your life 🙂
RE: You know you've been 3d printing too long when...
I'll confess to wishing I could place a heated bed under my driveway during the cold winter months.
and miscellaneous other tech projects
He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking. -- Spock in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
RE: You know you've been 3d printing too long when...
I see something cool, and wonder where I would have to add supports to print it.
I have a Prusa,therefore I research.
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I'll confess to wishing I could place a heated bed under my driveway during the cold winter months.
noone sais you cant use heated air (or something) in piping about 50cm under the top of your drive concrete.
it doesnt freeze like that in new orleans so i wont be prototyping it no matter how much i want to now.
and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
RE: You know you've been 3d printing too long when...
I'll confess to wishing I could place a heated bed under my driveway during the cold winter months.
noone sais you cant use heated air (or something) in piping about 50cm under the top of your drive concrete.
it doesnt freeze like that in new orleans so i wont be prototyping it no matter how much i want to now.
It’s been done.
When someone asks you if you're a god, you say, "YES!"
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This driveway has heating for winter commuters. Wan't cheap, but is effective. (WordPress is not liking the link ...)
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You keep trying to use F360/MM/CAD mouse gestures when looking at normal images to rotate/zoom them for a better view 😆
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You keep trying to use F360/MM/CAD mouse gestures when looking at normal images to rotate/zoom them for a better view 😆
... Guilty, I've done that, most commonly with images/screenshots of a technical object.
RE: You know you've been 3d printing too long when...
... if any cable roll reminds you on a filament roll.
Often linked posts:
Going small with MMU2
Real Multi Material
My prints on Instagram
RE: You know you've been 3d printing too long when...
... you take a shower - and hear the shower gel making some noises while coming out of the bottle -
and the first thing that goes through your mind is: Oh poo, wet filament...
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When someone asks if you remember loading computer games from cassette tapes and you think how great it'd be for something to only take 6 minutes and fail just 10% of the time.
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You spend way too much time reading forums looking for things that will probably go wrong with one of your future not-yet-designed parts and just want to be prepared.
ps: And yes, this thread is bolding all posts though not this NOT-BOLD sentence... lol.
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... you wonder when someone is buying this stuff called "paper" to load into their printer.
You don't know me, but I play one on television.
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ps: And yes, this thread is bolding all posts though not this NOT-BOLD sentence... lol.
I think @migamix is missing a closing </em> in his signature... 😉
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Yep - too many characters in his sig ... the truncation is omitting his </B> ...
a Doctor <B>There's no point in being grown up if you can't …
A small change to my sig seems to undo his damage ... lol.
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@tim-m30 Sneaky! I like it 😎
You don't know me, but I play one on television.
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@tim-m30 Sneaky! I like it 😎
lol - yeah - but I'm not going to follow him around and fix all the threads he's managed to corrupt... lol. I'll leave it to an admin to fix his profile.
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and that, ladies and gents, is a prime example of why competent server operators abhor wordpress. It's basically exploitpress.
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In fairness, there are 3d printers that layer paper to make their items 🙂ps: And yes, this thread is bolding all posts though not this NOT-BOLD sentence... lol.
I think @migamix is missing a closing </em> in his signature... 😉
just got a message about sig today, it was formatted perfectly for the old site, i just never got around to editing it for the new site. their import broke it. its what i get for raw html coding with some sites.
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"
and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.