What have you 3D printed for your TJ?
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If I recall correctly BL does a pretty solid pack job on their printers. I'd wager you're alright, but...eh...never hurts to check. I mean, surely your wife wouldn't want you to discover the damage on the day, probably best to know beforehand...
Yeah they pack them well mine was fine even though they obviously didn't (couldn't?) read the labelling on the box whatsoever
Seems if you mark a parcel as fragile, it just gives them license to drop kick the thing at least once during its journey. If you send something heavy, every handler will curse your name and treat your parcel worse than a stubborn rented mule.
I know someone who worked at UPS and said they went out of their way to mishandle everything marked fragile.
He’d be the first one to bitch if it was his too.
Report back on those HTs, I keep considering at least one...
Got the heaters on now. Going to print a desiccant dryer for them later using the dried PETG. As my AMS’s need the desiccant swapped out.
One thing I noticed that I didn’t think about prior but makes sense is that when drying you have to pull the filament out and lock it into the spool so that the spool can rotate while drying.
That means once it’s ready I can’t simply hit print. I need to reload the filament into the device.
So while it’s drying it shows them as empty.
That means once it’s ready I can’t simply hit print. I need to reload the filament into the device.
So while it’s drying it shows them as empty.
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FWIW, just to make you more stressed and worried, when my x1c showed up the box had similar damage. Door was shattered.
And, don’t forget - the wreck that killed The Intimidator didn’t look very bad…
Yeah, I mentioned it just because it's common enough to see posts about it semi-frequently even if it's not every time.
OK, OK, OK - Jeeze....
Nina is out, so I cracked it open. No "Dale Earnhardting" present.
Great packaging too. Pulled the 4 little locking tabs at the bottom of the box and the top comes right off. Also made it easy to put it all back together so no suspicion from Santa...
Nina is out, so I cracked it open. No "Dale Earnhardting" present.
Great packaging too. Pulled the 4 little locking tabs at the bottom of the box and the top comes right off. Also made it easy to put it all back together so no suspicion from Santa...
OK, OK, OK - Jeeze....
Nina is out, so I cracked it open. No "Dale Earnhardting" present.
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Great packaging too. Pulled the 4 little locking tabs at the bottom of the box and the top comes right off. Also made it easy to put it all back together so no suspicion from Santa...
Oh that's how you're supposed to open it. I thought it was hard to pull the heavy printer out by just squeezing it by the sides. Glad it isn't broken
And in related news, I've started getting into Fusion 3D, and am liking it a lot coming over from Sketchup. Did a quick model of the Toy Box I'm about to start. Now I just need to figure out how to do some hand-carving in Fusion...
It also occurred to me that with Fusion, I can easily 3D print a little model. Man, that would be a bunch quicker than doing it in wood...
It also occurred to me that with Fusion, I can easily 3D print a little model. Man, that would be a bunch quicker than doing it in wood...
And in related news, I've started getting into Fusion 3D, and am liking it a lot coming over from Sketchup. Did a quick model of the Toy Box I'm about to start. Now I just need to figure out how to do some hand-carving in Fusion...
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It also occurred to me that with Fusion, I can easily 3D print a little model. Man, that would be a bunch quicker than doing it in wood...
Glad you're liking it Jeff.
I've found 3D printers are great for templating or making a test fit piece before cutting wood or steel.
Fire that printer up and start making Christmas presents.
I've been printing for a while, mostly single color stuff, some multi-colored keychains where I'd just pause the printer at the appropriate height and manually swap to a second or third color. Finally upgraded to my fourth printer, the H2S w/ AMS. While I'm not too keen on plastic trinkets and mainly print functional things, I decided to play around with Bambu's MakerLab to print a cartoonized version of my dog.
To say I was unprepared for the amount of waste that a four-inch tall dog would generate would be an understatement, and I've been 3D printing for over ten years.
That said, I know I could have printed out a dozen of them at the same time and generated the same amount of waste, but then I'd have 11 more of these things.
For those that have said they're waiting for the H2C, good call.
I won't say I'm never going to do something like this again, but I'll likely avoid it whenever possible.
To say I was unprepared for the amount of waste that a four-inch tall dog would generate would be an understatement, and I've been 3D printing for over ten years.
That said, I know I could have printed out a dozen of them at the same time and generated the same amount of waste, but then I'd have 11 more of these things.
For those that have said they're waiting for the H2C, good call.
I won't say I'm never going to do something like this again, but I'll likely avoid it whenever possible.
I've been printing for a while, mostly single color stuff, some multi-colored keychains where I'd just pause the printer at the appropriate height and manually swap to a second or third color. Finally upgraded to my fourth printer, the H2S w/ AMS. While I'm not too keen on plastic trinkets and mainly print functional things, I decided to play around with Bambu's MakerLab to print a cartoonized version of my dog.
To say I was unprepared for the amount of waste that a four-inch tall dog would generate would be an understatement, and I've been 3D printing for over ten years.
That said, I know I could have printed out a dozen of them at the same time and generated the same amount of waste, but then I'd have 11 more of these things.
For those that have said they're waiting for the H2C, good call.
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There are ways to minimize the poop. I haven't printed anything with near that much so I haven't tried them but if you're going to have that happen I'd look into it.
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