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So as I alluded, this has been one of those items on my "fix the world" list, where I see some issue that I think needs to be solved and think about it for ages, but it often just gets back burnered due to not having everything I need to resolve it. For the last couple of years, for reasons...

It's done and delivered. I'll tell the whole story of how it was made tomorrow, I'm shagged out.

It's actually a very typical spot. The interface between the bottom of the bowden tube and the top of the nozzle leaks (this is the area of highest temperature and stress on the PTFE) and the burned filament residue finds the easiest path out of the hot end, which on that design is often the...

One of the things that caught me out was I was initially printing too hot. Before swapping the hot-ends I did a baseline check with the original and pushed it to 240℃, which was as high as I felt safe with a Capricorn PTFE liner. It came out reasonably well, so when I tried with the new all...

My Festool rail arrived (from Germany) and the first thing that jumps out at me is that the holes are actually slightly slotted. It makes sense since the registration along the length of the rail is the critical constraint, allowing slop across the width direction will improve the ease of the...

Very familiar with Klipper and will use it eventually when I build a new printer. Right now it doesn't really offer me much, I'm not a speed demon, and the promise of a simpler config is going to be offset by having to relearn everything and deal with any new platform specific issues. My...

3D Printer Content Warning! tldr; The Creality Ender 3 S1 Pro has everything documented below, out of the box with zero effort. This is me being cheap and using the whole animal. I've been pushing the limits of my original model Ender 3 for several years now, making basic modifications to keep...

I have a Jun-Air 6/4 'dental' compressor with a 5 liter tank, it does ~1CFM really quietly but at a 50% duty cycle and needs to provide air for the spindle cooling (which isn't a lot, but isn't nothing either.) So I suspect I will be pushing it, but worth a shot. Air compressors over here are...

Nice work, I can't shake the feeling that like everything, it needs more magnets... :) Regarding the Fog Buster, I bought a low volume silent compressor to cool my Nakanishi spindles (one is never enough) and wondered how much air these units actually take? Their website is not very helpful as...

I prefer the darker shade.

Regrettably my wifu is fitted with tamper proof torx, so these will stay in my office.

Yeah, I have a set of the regular Blue Diamonds and really liked them, so when I saw these I had to get them. Keeping these that pretty white is going to be a struggle, but tools are for using...

Yeah, we have very little (none?) of that sort of packaging over here. I don't miss it one bit.

It's even printed on Japanese Washi paper ;)

Honestly, how could I resist?

That's unfortunate, but at least it removes a valid excuse as to why you shouldn't get a nice big lathe of your own. :-)

Isopropyl alcohol but if you ever come across it, Aooni is far and away our favorite domestic IPA of the 'beer' kind.

Well it was a bit of a 💩 show, but it is done. As I mentioned, I've been trying to finish a long abandoned home maintenance issue to reseal one of the outside verandas. Stripping and preparation was difficult as the elastomeric coating someone had previously applied had degraded and was...

Yeah, I have a 3rd party cone style centering mandrels used for templating guides that work fine in this plate, I just wanted to use the factory part if possible. I measured the arbor and it was a few hundredths of a mm oversized, maybe not an issue with the Festool collets but needed touch up...

At least it has good roof peak ventilation.