3D Update
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Over the last few weeks, the stringing problem kept going with the 3D printer. And of course, that caused things like the printing head snagging on a piece after 12 hours and dragging it off the bed…
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Not great timing. I did reprint and it worked, this time with the experimental tree support structures which look really neat mid-print:
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That orientation was pants though, so for the next segment, it was rotated through 90 degrees:
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That worked much better.
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Of course, when trying to plug one into the other…
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Well, sod.
Print another in the right orientation though and…
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Mind you, snapping those together was right on the edge of breaking them and it seems like PLA is *not* the right material. Also, that was the last of my first reel of PLA – I came within an inch or two of running out mid-print:
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So I got some more, this time not from Creality because a lot of internet experts were sure that creality filament was the source of reliability issues with prints.… Read the rest