The Everything 3D Printer Thread
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draco_1967
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My kids don't need a college fund. They're the ones that keep asking me to print all the things for them... 
I need to stock my filament room
Edit: This is an AI generated image BTW. I don't have a filament room (yet...)
I need to stock my filament room
Edit: This is an AI generated image BTW. I don't have a filament room (yet...)
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67CarGuy
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Holy filament options, Batman!
duneslider
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I don't know why but the glow in the dark seems cool. Not sure what I would do with it but I want some.
I'm not ordering all of them lol. Working on finding out most popular asks so put it out there.
we're slated to order in may/june at the current rate. then it'd be july/august
oneleglance
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Green Metal would be fantastic....Along with any other metal looking colors
TPU Orange then Red then Blue in order of preference
All the stuff I have gotten from you has printed great on my Bambu X1C with AMS
67CarGuy
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Just put in an order myself, for the new Prusa Mk4S that 
(disguised as my father in law) brought a couple weeks ago.
Took a few days to put everything together (kit, not pre-assembled) and first print turned out great! However it only came with (2) 25g mini spools, so my Schoolhouse order will help get things moving.
(disguised as my father in law) brought a couple weeks ago.Took a few days to put everything together (kit, not pre-assembled) and first print turned out great! However it only came with (2) 25g mini spools, so my Schoolhouse order will help get things moving.
Print it solid and drill and tap it. I have printed threads and they never came out great. What size thread? The inserts are great for smaller ones.
mike93lx
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40-43mm.
check the link...
Oh, that’s pretty large. Id give it a try. Ive done 7/8-14 and cast in aluminum with minimal clean up.
mike93lx
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I'll try with my 4mm nozzle this weekend and if it seems like it might work, then consider a 2mm. I figure once I spend about 12 hrs of design and testing, a week of prints, $40 on parts and $10 on filament, I'll call baader and order a $30 adapter 
Yes please!
My 2 cents.....don't know how much space you want to devote to storage for retail....but I'd say focus on the 20% of volume that makes up for the 80% of orders. Not saying don't consider some of the fancy metallics and silks and color changing cause it's fun.....but if I'm getting really picky on color i'm probably going to one of the vendors who is very good at color matches.
PLA, PETG as it's your bread and butter, ASA and ABS if volume suggests carrying both but personally I haven't found anything that I can do in ABS that I can't do better/easier in ASA. TPU if it's competitive as well....but as it seems like your niche is probably the higher volume "enthusiast" I don't know that carrying a huge array does anything other than make your inventory management a PITA
I've got the vision plate, used it once....can't say I saw a change....also can't say I did a statistically relevant before and after....so it's kinda novelty right now if I'm being honest.
Fly Fishing Rick
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Still experimenting with printing but made some PETG inserts for my Ender 3 V2 to keep **** from falling in those little channels.. lol. Tomorrow I'll try PLA for the first time.
we'll do probably 80% known good. my factory provides me with a breakdown of filament popularity in the US to help adjust my order.
PLA and PETG are the bulk bulk.
silk TPU is for the cosplay crowd.
ASA is what i'd stock over ABS if needed.
the dual and tri colors are extremely popular with the small craft fair print farm folks.
slodat
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For my product stuff, I only use ABS. I haven't tried ASA, so I can't speak to it. These are hardware boxes and trays that go in Pelican cases and get banged around on job sites day in and day out. The ABS has worked well with no known failures/RMAs. ABS was chosen approaching three years ago because at the time it worked out of the box and I wanted something durable for the conditions the printed parts would see. I go through about 100kg a year of it.
ASA is basically ABS's younger hotter sister.
Haven't printed nearly as much ABS and ASA but the main improvements I've seen in ASA vs ABS are
-Reduced warpage off bedplate
-Lower smell
It also offers improved UV resistance on exterior applications but don't think that's relevant for your usage in cases etc
mike93lx
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But is she crazy?
Aren't they all?
mike93lx
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But there is crazy and then there is crazy
you can see the whites all the way around her eyes.
tell her to lay off the white eyeliner
Grant Gunderson
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Time to que the crazy hot matrix. And yes they are all crazy.
PelicanPines
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I've spent my whole life in the danger zone...
Bought the Bambu vision encoder. I need to see if I can square up my x y. Large parts are out of square maybe 0.050"-0.060" (I didn't measure but it's obvious with a precision square). Oddly, I can't find one review that tests whether the vision encoder corrects x y skew which is the main point of it that I can see.
mike93lx
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I expect nothing less
duneslider
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Okay, what am I doing wrong here (just regular bambu PLA)? What can I do to fix this issue of the end lifting? This was the best I could get it after 4 tries. I tried rotating it to multiple different directions on the plate to see if that would help. I ended up adding the skirt around it and that helped a TON but still end up lifting on that end. I did clean the plate before each try with IPA but maybe I should be scrubbing with soap and water? Maybe my design is flawed? Maybe it should have been a different rotation but this one seemed to have the most surface area touching the plate?
This ended up working fine for its intended purpose but I have had other things do this and its usually been when it gets closer to the edge of the plate. Just curious what else I could try? Do I need a different plate, or need to use glue, or plate hotter, or not as hot, or ???
This ended up working fine for its intended purpose but I have had other things do this and its usually been when it gets closer to the edge of the plate. Just curious what else I could try? Do I need a different plate, or need to use glue, or plate hotter, or not as hot, or ???
Okay, what am I doing wrong here (just regular bambu PLA)? What can I do to fix this issue of the end lifting? This was the best I could get it after 4 tries. I tried rotating it to multiple different directions on the plate to see if that would help. I ended up adding the skirt around it and that helped a TON but still end up lifting on that end. I did clean the plate before each try with IPA but maybe I should be scrubbing with soap and water? Maybe my design is flawed? Maybe it should have been a different rotation but this one seemed to have the most surface area touching the plate?
This ended up working fine for its intended purpose but I have had other things do this and its usually been when it gets closer to the edge of the plate. Just curious what else I could try? Do I need a different plate, or need to use glue, or plate hotter, or not as hot, or ???
Possibly a dirty plate, so yes, dish detergent and hot water. IPA for touch ups only between washes with soap and water. That's the regiment that I have settled on, anyway. Prints on my new textured PEI Bambu plate with generic settings have been perfect so far. No lifting at all.
lovetap
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Printed this awhile back as a test piece, anyone want to guess what it is?
jayz66ragtop
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I'd get that on my X1C every once in a while and "fixed" it with two things.Okay, what am I doing wrong here (just regular bambu PLA)? What can I do to fix this issue of the end lifting? This was the best I could get it after 4 tries. I tried rotating it to multiple different directions on the plate to see if that would help. I ended up adding the skirt around it and that helped a TON but still end up lifting on that end. I did clean the plate before each try with IPA but maybe I should be scrubbing with soap and water? Maybe my design is flawed? Maybe it should have been a different rotation but this one seemed to have the most surface area touching the plate?
This ended up working fine for its intended purpose but I have had other things do this and its usually been when it gets closer to the edge of the plate. Just curious what else I could try? Do I need a different plate, or need to use glue, or plate hotter, or not as hot, or ???
1. I found things stick better to the plate when they were placed towards the back and center of the plate when printing something that was less than ~50% the size of the bed.
2. Make sure the print plate is cleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaan. Almost every failed print I had with the X1C was due to me not cleaning the print plate for a while and then having adhesion issues. Once this happened I'd take the plate to the sink, squirt dish soap on it, and scrub it with one of the dish brushes. Then let it fully dry before putting it back in the printer, being careful to only touch the outer edge of the plate and not where prints happened.
For #1 I think there was a cooler spot on the bed but could never figure out why the size mattered but it seemed to. Maybe the more mass of the print helped keep the temperature more even or just putting hot filament on a greater part of the bed.
jayz66ragtop
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BTW got the H2C setup mostly with the office rearranged and printed a few things. With having two AMS 2 Pro's and an AMS HT I needed a compact way to have them setup. Decided to go with the Babo Duo setup from MakerWorld so I printed two of the stackers in ASA. they both came out fantastc, my only complaint is the frame that mounts to the bottom of the AMS are not great to thread bolts into. I stripped out one of them on the first one I printed and just put a longer screw in it which ended up making it hard to fasten to the AMS, it interfered a tiny bit but I made it work.
For the second one, I busted out the M3 tap to run through all the holes instead of using the bolts to make the threads. This worked out great except a couple of spots, one being the frame for the AMS. I did the same thing with the second one for one of the corners and it seems to be more ridged than the first one and was able to use a M3X10MM rather than the M3X12MM on the first so I don't think it will interfere like the first. I have brass threaded inserts and it appears to be enough "meat" on those two parts to be able to insert them if this proves to not hold up over time.
Ordered extended six pin cables and PTFE tubes so everything can sit to the right or the printer and have nice smooth transitions.
Babo Duo staker for AMS - https://makerworld.com/en/models/1659712-babo-duo-ams-drawer-stacker?from=search#profileId-2087296
Babo Duo collection on MakerWorld - https://makerworld.com/en/collections/666853-babo-duo-organizer
Only two AMS' but this is somewhat where I'm going (and on top of a two drawer lateral filing cabinet not on the floor):
This is the part I had issues with the screws:
For the second one, I busted out the M3 tap to run through all the holes instead of using the bolts to make the threads. This worked out great except a couple of spots, one being the frame for the AMS. I did the same thing with the second one for one of the corners and it seems to be more ridged than the first one and was able to use a M3X10MM rather than the M3X12MM on the first so I don't think it will interfere like the first. I have brass threaded inserts and it appears to be enough "meat" on those two parts to be able to insert them if this proves to not hold up over time.
Ordered extended six pin cables and PTFE tubes so everything can sit to the right or the printer and have nice smooth transitions.
Babo Duo staker for AMS - https://makerworld.com/en/models/1659712-babo-duo-ams-drawer-stacker?from=search#profileId-2087296
Babo Duo collection on MakerWorld - https://makerworld.com/en/collections/666853-babo-duo-organizer
Only two AMS' but this is somewhat where I'm going (and on top of a two drawer lateral filing cabinet not on the floor):
This is the part I had issues with the screws: