My non-matte filament is always matte when printed, only the last bit where it prints more slowly because of the cooling it is shiny. 
Yeah, doesn’t help for the tip though, just removes the visible artifacts. 
well… if it’s just the tip… does it count??
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Noooo? 
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In the cold hard light of day, the noticeable shiny bit is less noticeable when not placed under a lit camera lens, but I don’t know why the last twenty or so layers should be treated differently. Still, I’m pretty happy with the overall quality - it’s first class and that was on draft mode, I shudder to think what the .15 quality one will look like.
There is less to print so it slows down because of cooling. Don’t want your layers to not be hard when the next one goes on top of it. You could slow down the whole print if you wanted the same colour.
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So far so good, and it’s almost done - there’s a fold-down shelf almost finished to hold the dryer so it can direct feed, and inside two racks hold eights spools of filament with room to double that if I get stupid - am waiting for details of the MMU4/INDX before I make the bits to feed it out the back, but have a plan to heat and ventilate it to make it a drying cupboard if that works out.
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That looks like a way better solution than my kraken thingy… I still struggle with really good filament buffers/rewinders for those, but the good ideas won‘t come. 
This cabinet is “almost” 400mm deep, so the buffers could fit inside - but I am hopeful that -
- the MMU4 (let’s call it that shall we?) will lead the filament so I can draw it into the back of the cabinet,
- I won’t need a rewinder
- It can really handle seven heads (I have eight connected)
I admit that not much more than a year ago, I doubted the value of multi colour printing - but I have some projects planned in the distant future, and multi material will be a game changer for a couple of things I have on my list too! But I need to keep some of that stuff DRY baby! I could even compartmentalise it and dry at different temperatures, but that is getting ahead of myself!
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330mm is where the CoreOne draws the line - I would have preferred to have squared ends on this part, but one piece was worth the trade off.
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I haven’t been paying attention to the state of the art in material changes, so forgive me if I’m just now thinking of something other have already looked into.
I wonder if the sliding end of a self-winding watch spring might provide inspiration. I can see where something like the fixed ends of a recoil starter would be a problem as eventually the spring would be fully tightened and something would have to give. In self-winding watches, braking grease is applied inside the barrel arbor which lets the spring store an appropriate amount of energy for the watch to run for a couple of days, but it will slip if the spring is already “full” of energy.
The printer pulling the filament could “wind up” the arbor of the spool to provide the energy for rewinding, but a sliding spring end would prevent the system from storing too much energy.
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There is something like that already and it seems to work, but I haven’t got around to implement it because it doesn’t really fit the dryboxes. There are some good solutions, but none work together with what I would like.
Maybe the MMU4 makes the rewinding obsolete. Hopefully.
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Let me just put that up here real quick. You have a heck of an eye for design. I love to see the big guys notice it!!!
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Thanks so much! (I shall have a word with your spy! 
) I posted that on Twitter for the benefit of David (Prusa’s model maker extraordinaire) who’s designed some really nice accessories and I’ve been really chuffed with the reaction. 
It’s sort of embarrassing because it’s really just an MDF copy of the printer, but really satisfying to build and I am really pleased with the outcome. I am hoping that it will work to feed spools direct to the INDX, and I have had a very broad hint that “Formnext will be a very busy time for the team” - so maybe I can finish it by Christmas after all!
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That’s the big dude indeed!
You should be. Your work is outstanding.
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It wasn’t me! I swear! 
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The link you shared has #preview.8aunm at the end of the URL and (for me at least) that breaks the page, keeping it from loading completely. Not sure why.
However, if I remove the hashtag and what’s after it, the page loads fine:
Also, the same was true of the second link as well. It had #preview.lK3Ba at the end, and works better without that.
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Thanks Doug, I’m a bit puzzled by that - maybe I’ll just stop the inline links and do as you’ve done.
I went to modify the original post and I can’t see anything to modify - note the link address looks exactly the same in the browser when clicked.
If anyone can cast any light on this (forum behaviour?) it would be interesting to find out what is happening.
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Ah, I see what you mean about inline— there may be a bug in the forum code!
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