Overnight print is off to a solid start. I haven't done one this big in a while and I'm excited to see how goes the gradient filament. Also, the estimates for how long this print will take are crazy. Maybe it will still be running at 18:00 tomorrow?? That's not what Cura said. But we shall see!
#Taiwan's military mobilised forces & said it was confident it could protect the island, after #China started 2 days of #punishment drills around Taiwan in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".
The exercises in #TaiwanStrait & around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands…,come 3 days after #Lai Ching-te took office as Taiwan's new #president, a man Beijing detests as a #separatist.
Things people with #3DPrinters do instead of having fun outside :)
Printing and analysing temperature towers to have good print parameters per spool. It’s still annoying that you have to generate spool specific gcode or manually fiddle with the temperature while printing instead of telling the printer “I am using spool #3, that’s the orange PLA with 215°C for the first layer and 205°C for all other layers, as you know”.
I need to revise an opinion I've expressed about Creality's basic PLA, mostly back on Reddit.
Turns out there are two kinds not well distinguished.
The more-expensive single-spool packs of PLA are fine.
The two-spool PLA bundles are not.
I thought it was just a bundle discount. I was wrong.
The two-spool is adequate for drafts. But layer adhesion is worse, plate adhesion is worse, and cooling contraction over larger areas is much worse.
It does print, it doesn't clog and it's otherwise adequately behaved - but it is a much weaker filament and has proven inadequate for even lightly stressed test objects.
My opinions about the single-spool stand. But the double-spool combo is not worth the discount.
Dass #PLA nicht nur elastisch, sondern leider auch plastisch ist, führt zu dem Problem, dass es sich nur bei Hitze, sondern auch unter Kraft verformt.
Nach einiger Recherche habe ich zudem herausgefunden, dass PLA auch über die Zeit schrumpft. Nicht enorm viel, aber es kann für Kugelgelenke grundsätzlich ein Problem werden.
Ich werde die Kugel also in PETG drucken und das Gehäuse (und die Mutter) in PLA.