Lol! I totally agree! Doing the CornerR now with a 2mm brim to see what happens. It was a longer road then getting my LR2 dialed in, but now that it’s working I’m super excited to start making cool but totally unnecessary things. Lol! Just ordered some glow in the dark PLA for Xbox keychains https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3261009/files (the center Silver will be glow in the dark) I am printing out for my son’s 11th birthday in 2 weeks. We are having a mobile gaming truck come to the house.http://www.rollingvideogamesnh.com/ and I figured they would be a cool gift for his friends.
This MP3DP is going to get me in trouble with all the filament I’ve bought this week… Black, Red, White, Yellow, Green, Purple, Blue and now Glow in the Dark White. Lol. Tomorrow I am getting a airtight storage container and desiccant to store them all in when I’m not using them. Not sure if I should get a hard plastic container to keep them in, or just get those reusable vacuum storage bags and store each filament color with its own desiccant bag in a single vacuum bag. Any suggestions?
Once ypu decide you want a brim, the size doesn’t hurt. It’s the same amount of work to clean off a 2mm brim as a 5mm one.
Whichever storage solution doesn’t let it soak up moisture. Also make sure you hold onto the end. If you let go, and it wraps under another loop, it will make a knot.
Just think, if you had noticed the broken nozzle back then you’d be printing so-so things now with no idea how to get them better. You ended up with so much more knowledge this way.
So true! Now I’m just fighting with filament squishing out around the hot end somewhere. I know (or at least I thought I knew) that the nozzle and the throat were tight to each other but now I dunno. I just ordered a package of throats, insulation and heaters to see if those help. They arrive on Wednesday - how important is the insulation until then? Lol. I have a lot to print and not much time to do it (I’m off next week and I’m printing stuff for my son’s birthday in 2 weeks), plus, I just don’t wanna stop. lol.
There is a trick to getting them close together for real. It seems to have to take into account that this stuff changes size when it heats… Assemble as normal with the throat and nozzle touching and the nozzle just slightly out from seated against the block. Turn the heat on without pushing any filament through, wait for it to come to temp and tighten the nozzle against the throat again. Surprise! there was like a quarter turn or more of room there. Now they are tight for real.
Bill, that’s awesome advice! I’ve factored in heat when leveling my bed, but not in tightening up my nozzle! This time I seated the tip to the heat block, ran in the throat and tightened that to the tip as much as possible, then threaded on a nut and screwed the whole thing onto the extruder assembly. I then threaded the nut up and till it was almost touching the extruder and then used the heat block to tighten the nut up which also helped to tighten the throat to the tip. So far, so good, but if it starts leaking again, I’ll do what you suggested… I really would like to take my Tig torch to it to bond it all together, lol. I don’t think that would be a great idea though!
