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PLA's more reliable with glue, nGen and XT are giving me grief at thicker layer thicknesses - can't find the sweetspot between adhesion / oversquished / lifting. E3D edge is fine either way as long as not too squished.
Nylon is my next foray but I have a mate's Zortrax to fix first...
Nylon is my next foray but I have a mate's Zortrax to fix first...
Just got myself a Creality Ender 3 Pro. I couldn’t believe how cheap the barrier to entry has gotten. It does however feel a bit like what printing must have been like in the 1970s! 
Spent the best part of today figuring out the levelling and playing around with getting adhesion right, etc.
Once I have it all dialled in, I want to make up some replacement parts for my glovebox of all things. Mercedes wanted 35 quid for a tiny piece of plastic that stop the glovebox bottoming out, so spending the best part of 250 quid for the printer, PLA and some accessories was definitely the right idea.
Spent the best part of today figuring out the levelling and playing around with getting adhesion right, etc.
Once I have it all dialled in, I want to make up some replacement parts for my glovebox of all things. Mercedes wanted 35 quid for a tiny piece of plastic that stop the glovebox bottoming out, so spending the best part of 250 quid for the printer, PLA and some accessories was definitely the right idea.
Insanity Magnet said:
Congratulations on joining a world of fun and frustration.
Come summer, when the car gets really hot when parked up, don't be surprised if the bit you have printed distorts like crazy... Then you can practice printing in PETG, ABS etc etc
Oh I already have ABS coming for that. Just made up my first prototype of the part in Fusion360 and it’s printing as we speak. It’s a whole rabbit hole of things to learn!Come summer, when the car gets really hot when parked up, don't be surprised if the bit you have printed distorts like crazy... Then you can practice printing in PETG, ABS etc etc
sjj84 said:
How are you finding the ender 3? I'm thinking of getting one, any tips for easy set up? Have you printed any of the upgrades from thingiverse? I was also thinking of using fusion 360, which slicing software are you using? I've had both splicer and cura recommended.
I bought an Anet A8 earlier this year and it was utter garbage! it was hit or miss whether I could get things to stick to the bed, I even upgraded the bed to the Anycubic ultrabase and STILL had issues so sold it to a mate who wanted it and can spend all day tinkering.Last week I went into my model shop in Newark and they had the Ender 3 which I'd never heard of so spent a night on youtube watching a few reviews I decided to risk it and bought one.
about an hour and half to assemble, 5 minutes to level the bed (preheated) then setup Cura for the CR-10 settings from crealty website and it works a treat!
had 2 detached prints but since adjusting Cura settings to initial layer 70 Deg C and initial speed 15mm/s I've had successful prints.
I love it! it just works.
I've just picked up a Creality Ender 3.
I'm having great fun printing mods for it, fan covers, feeder arm, cable chains, plus I've modded a couple of thingiverse models to my requirements.
Getting the bed level isn't to bad, just finding that sweet spot using a sheet of paper at the minute, but will have a look at a BLTouch.
I'm using TinkerCad for designing and Cura for the slicing.
Any specific PLA (or other types) to use or avoid? Has anyone tried the wood infused PLA?
Next thing I think is to dig out one of my old Raspberry Pi's and rig it up with Octoprint,
Only had the one total disaster of a print so far, which was the only one where I haven't stayed and watched the first 4 or 5 layers printed. It got to about 1hr into a 90min print before I checked, to be greeted with a mass of filament and not much of my actual design.
and a close up of Dorus The Dragon
I'm having great fun printing mods for it, fan covers, feeder arm, cable chains, plus I've modded a couple of thingiverse models to my requirements.
Getting the bed level isn't to bad, just finding that sweet spot using a sheet of paper at the minute, but will have a look at a BLTouch.
I'm using TinkerCad for designing and Cura for the slicing.
Any specific PLA (or other types) to use or avoid? Has anyone tried the wood infused PLA?
Next thing I think is to dig out one of my old Raspberry Pi's and rig it up with Octoprint,
Only had the one total disaster of a print so far, which was the only one where I haven't stayed and watched the first 4 or 5 layers printed. It got to about 1hr into a 90min print before I checked, to be greeted with a mass of filament and not much of my actual design.
and a close up of Dorus The Dragon
Edited by Russ35 on Tuesday 11th June 23:30
SlimRick said:
I'm not quite sure why I need one, but I'm sure my Echo Dot will appreciate being sat in an R2D2 holder 
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Brilliant! Once you've run out of small pointless things to print, you can print big pointless things. I give you, Teminator's arm![/url]
The pointlessness of it all is the best part of it
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