Dry vs "wet" dessicant beads. The top orange is after a run through the microwave. The bottom is what I took out of the 3d filament bag that was holding at 28 percent. In the few minutes since I changed the beads, the bag is already down to 25 percent.
I just found out that my progress in the game Filament is lost. I thought Epic Games has cloud save for it, but after some digging, I found out the sourced of all the tragedy. The synced dir is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Filament\Saved\SavedGames while the actual place for save files is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Filament\Saved\SaveGames. No kidding. Just like that. Lost.
Oh, look! I made a thing. Parametric spool hub adapters for my drybox.
https://www.printables.com/model/1203560-parametric-spool-hub-adapter
A good video from "I built a thing" that may surprise you about carbon fibre filaments. Their only advantages are probably appearance and reduced shrinkage.
In addition to poorer mechanical properties, they may also be carcinogenic!
$143 CAD for 4kg (different colours) of PLA+ #3dprint #filament.
I blame you #gridfinity and #GOEWS!
#3DPrinting annoyance...
I have an #FLSun #V400 delta printer. A few upgrades, including to stock Klipper. I'm happy with it.
The issue: it's got a filament runout sensor up at the top of the print volume, right after the filament comes down through the top compartment of the printer, which houses the MCU and stepper motors. That works fine for detecting the end of a reel of filament.
But it's basically useless for detecting a filament break, because every break I've had has been between the sensor and the effector/hotend. The sensor happily indicates "filament good" while the hotend uses the remaining ~50cm of filament and then continues to print nothing, while cooking the leftover plastic in the hotend.
What do others do about this? Should I be moving the runout sensor to the effector, just on top of the extruder? Or I've seen what appear to be fancier sensors that detect filament movement, rather than being just a simple presence switch. Anyone have any experience with those?
I appreciate any thoughts from the more-experienced printers in the fedi. Thanks!
Buyer beware: I just had another spool of Paramount 3DPETG that had the final 80g of filament bonded to itself so hard it breaks rather than unspools.
I can see where it’s being torn from the other filament as it gets unspooled. Might have been spooled up too warm?
I really wanted to like their stuff but between this happening more often and their brittle PLA I think they’re not getting any more of my money.
My wife got me this as a birthday gift after seeing me jealously examining a friend’s Polyphemus dryer.
I’ve only played with it a bit but it’s so much nicer than my Easdry. Quieter, easier to load, built in timer, humidity control mode… all in all seems like a nice upgrade.
I usually use PolyTerra PLA, specifically Fossil Grey which is a nice matte finish. It's great because it comes on cardboard spools, is cheap, and photographs well for my Patreon models, and listings on My Mini Factory.
They are phasing the PolyTerra line out for a new line of filament which I don't like as much.
Any suggestions for PLA that is:
* Cardboard spools not plastic
* inexpensive
* Matte when printed instead of glossy.
* Available from US distributors
Answering the question: How much can you print with one spool of filament? This is especially interesting for 3D printing newbies like me! Check it out: https://youtu.be/6g_4bmZsvS4
#3DPrinting #Filament #Newbie #MakerCommunity #3Dquestion
#3DPrinter #AdditiveManufacturing
Does anyone have recommendations for online stores (in or that sell to the USA) for good quality PLA 3D printer filament? I had been buying exclusively from #bambu but am looking for an alternative vendor.
Being compatible with guest checkouts (the really fast ones via Apple Pay) is a big plus. 
#3dprinting #filament
3D Printers-people!
I'm building a rack from a Ikea furniture to stack 2 3D Printers one on top of the other and i'm stuck wondering where to place the spool holder now that i don't have enought space in height inside.
Any suggestion? Boost appreciated!
#3dprinter #rack #filament #diy
Making calcium lactate, precursor to #PLA from sourkraut and egg shells.
Any tips on making #3dprinting #bioplastic #PHA by fermentation #diy at home?
I'm quite stuck in making #PLA at home from sourkraut, I'd need high purity sulfuric acid to actually get this lactic acid out of calcium lactate (egg shells + pickle juice). I might try using citric acid and heating that up. But if that doesn't work, PHA seems even better and more homebrewable.
Anyways, making the #fff #fdm #filament using no paleotechnic products. That would be the most #solarpunk thing ever.
Trialing cereal boxes instead of vacuum bags for filament storage. I can’t get any vacuum bags to hold a seal for more than a couple uses, which makes their cost significantly higher than it would initially seem.
These are a bit higher up front investment ($4 per box, 60g filament, 4 608 bearings, +hygrometers if you’d like) but, if I added the ptfe fitting, I can print from them and they will hopefully last a lot longer.
I’m not in love with this design—it’s a little filament wasteful and not ideal to print—but it works until I design my own.
Further to the up-thread pics of the #bambuLabs filament on a re-usable spool with truncated edges, here is a link to the #Printables file so you can print it yourself.
This is my re-usable spool adjusted to fit on an #A1Mini print bed which is only 18cm square.
https://www.printables.com/model/1117923-bambu-labs-reusable-spool-for-mini-sized-print-bed
Got my first spool of Ambrosia ASA calibrated today.
It’s a lovely filament.
Flowed really well, zero warping or distortion, and very normal print settings.
The color is also really nice, but I wouldn’t have called it simply “Gray”. There is quite a bit of a green tone to it.
