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I wonder if you could use the part cooling fan on a 3d printer to help cool the bed after printing, or if that would affect the quality 🤔

Social media posts should operate under the same rules as tv broadcasts. If someone is in the video, get a fucking release before posting that content somewhere 😒

I have this specific spot on my print bed that always seems to lift for some reason, despite it being probed with the auto bed leveling multiple times. I have no idea why, its been like it since the day i got the printer, its usually ok so long as the bulk of the print area is covering that spot, but if any corners or such are in that area, its almost guaranteed to lift.

Thanks Creality😭

I think im gonna print them in red. The waltzer im basing the design on is mostly red, and i have red loaded in the printer, so might as well use it. Surprisingly its only going to take 2 print plates to do all the shutters, and the print time isnt too bad either, i managed to get it down to about 3 hours.

do i print the shutters for the waltzer in red... or random colors 🤔

I know i said im going to sleep, but my brain wont shut off.
I wonder what year would be considered the most favourite year. For me its probably 1999, It was the last year i remember being a good happy year for me, after that it all went down hill.
It had good music too 😂

Walkway Batch 2 is almost halfway done.

im going to sleep

I never really understood peoples liking of Jack Black, Ive never been a fan of his acting, except in Shallow Hal (which im pretty sure was poorly received) and I liked that song Tenacious D did, but that's it 🤷‍♂️

i dunno what it is, but when the printer stops and returns back to its home position, it always manages to unravel the filament a little bit, and always to the back of the machine so that i have to return it back to the spool, if it fell forwards, i wouldnt have to touch it, because it wouldnt be in a situation to be tangled. i need to design or find something that i can add to the side of a spool to prevent the filament slipping off 😭

It only does it on fresh spools because of how full they are, after a quarter of a spool has been used it doesnt slip anymore 😒

The first batch of walkways is about to finish printing, kinda temped to run the second batch as soon as this one finishes, that way i can start fitting it all together tomorrow.

Not sure if i wanna start a 5 and half hour print this late at night tho 🤔

Added a copy link button to the posts incase i need to go refer back to it at some point 🤷‍♂️

just saw this on reddit.

its a 3d printed fallout 4 themed mame machine. looks amazing, but i know i wont use it if i ever made one, and im not even a fallout fan lol, i just like that 50s style.

https://old.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1lc2zx7/diy_3d_printed_fallout_4_themed_retropie_arcade/

Incase your wondering about the domain name, i saw it on schitts creek when they thought moira died. i was gonna try and recreate the website from the episode, but eh, cant be bothered.

in torn with what to do about the waltzer, so if i throw the current stuff (its being replaced like i said earlier) away, i feel bad, cause i think i should keep it for reasons im not sure of yet. But also, it does work... so... it seems a little wasteful to throw it away, but then again, i dont have space to keep it around really, it would just sit in a box somewhere.

I think i just convinced myself to chuck it 😂

The good thing about printing things vertically, is when you have to remove them, if the footprint is small u can just yank them off (kinky), but if u print them flat, you have to wait for them to cool a little otherwise risk warping them. The only problem with vertical prints is that they take fucking ages😭

I hate time and math, im printing some of the walkways and they are 7% finished in 20 minutes, so my brain instantly thinks "well that wont be THAT long to finish" despite the slicer saying it will take 5 hours, i dunno why but 7% in 20 minutes feels way quicker than 100% in 5 hours. Maybe im just an idiot 😭

Over the last year and a bit, ive been designing and 3d printing a 'Waltzer' funfair ride, which are pretty common in the UK and i think Germany.

Im just printing the walkways now, i already did it the other day but i was lazy and didnt want to redesign the gates that the walkway sit on, so i ended up just using the existing gates, problem is, i didn't realise how unstable the walkways would be on them, so ive now redesigned the gates and walkway to better fit together, its just gonna take me another 12 hours to print all the walkways :((

I printed 2 test pieces out and they seem really stable, even just holding them together, so hopefully this will be the last time i print them.

The whole ride is being designed in CAD, but the tolerances for 3d printing can be pretty wild in my experience, so it might look good in cad, but after being printed, not so much lol.

I have a real blog (i wont be posting the link), but i can never find the motivation to sit and actually write a post, which is why i setup this site. Now i can post all the random crap that comes into my mind.

I wonder what the most ironic song is. I dont mean like Born in the U.S.A being a song about how the us treats its vets, but being used as a "yay usa" type song. I mean songs where they have released a song about.. i dunno, domestic abuse, but then gone on to be accused / convicted of domestic abuse. hmm

You know when some kids die in tragic circumstances and the parents / family always seem to indicate the kid was gonna go on to do great things, like cure cancer or some shit. I wonder if any of those kids would have actually done that, its pretty unlikely I reckon, but possible.