elucubra
@elucubra@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on How to minimise the space taken up by windows partition? (dual-boot) 5 days ago:
Titus tech tip’s windows decrapifying tool is pretty awesome for removing windows shit.
His YouTube channel is pretty cool too.
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 week ago:
Time to order a few SanDisk cards
- Comment on Dual shaft (or through shaft) motors in series? 2 weeks ago:
I’m thinking torque rather than speed. I have converted an Ender 5 Plus to Hybrid core Y, with the Endorphin mod and I’m mulling adding an extra stepper on the X, and increasing power on the Y, either with a larger Y dual shaft or adding an extra stepper on the Y in series.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on good results so far with Elegoo Rapid PETG 2 weeks ago:
I really like elegoo rpetg. It really likes moisture, though. Not a problem for me with my redneck dryer, though.
I’ll be making a video with my setup soon.
I had a bunch of rolls of plain petg, and dumped them on a second hand market. Never looking back.
Also, Sunlu PLA+ 2.0. Great PLA.
I want to try Polymaker HT-PLA-GF. High temp resistance (150°C) right off the printer, more if annealed, and glass fiber. Should be a great replacement for many engineering filaments, but printable on vanilla printers without enclosure/filters.
- Comment on Ender 3 v3 se y axis bearings loose in carrier. 2 weeks ago:
Epoxy can be a bit of a crap shoot with plastics. It works wonderfully for some, a not at all for others. I have worked a lot with epoxy and plastics are always a “try somewhere else in the part” thing. Also, if there is grease on the part" forget it. Even with epoxy especially formulated for plastics.
If all you want is to use the epoxy as a filler, it may work.
- Comment on Good boah 3 weeks ago:
A trans clown?
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 4 weeks ago:
So micro soft?
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 4 weeks ago:
I use Xpenology on an HP Gen 8 microswrver, a pretty nifty piece of kit. Works great, but setting up and upgrading versions can be a rather involved process.
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 4 weeks ago:
Gamer desktops tend to be power hogs. Running them 24/7 can rack up some hefty power bills, plus noise, plus space, plus other tradeoffs.
Better a used thin client.
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 4 weeks ago:
If you have a 3d printer, or access, o know someone willing to print for you, there are many free models out there
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 4 weeks ago:
Definitely an option, but for the price of a Pi with all the extras, case, power supply, etc, you can get a used thin client that is way more capable.
There is a guy on YouTube that often reviews these things, and discovers some models that are surprisingly capable.
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 4 weeks ago:
Synology publishes a list of certified non-synology drives, and warns you that drives outside the list are not recommended, but, at least in non enterprise models, allows them to be used. I believe there is some rather easy way (some config file change or the like) to circumvent the limitation, but yeah, dick move.
- Comment on Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors 4 weeks ago:
Bargaining chip. Hehe, I see what you did there.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 4 weeks ago:
Tesla sells itself as a technology innovation company, but it sells hype.
- Comment on FYI (opinion.) don't buy an MMU 4 weeks ago:
Is that compatible with other brands? I believe most MMUs are only compatible with their own printers. That’s another advantage of INDX, and other toolchangers I’m sure are in the pipeline. I’m going to be installing an INDX in my heavily modded Ender 5 Plus, and if I ever decide to sell it, or retire it, I know I’ll probably be able to carry it over to another printer.
- Comment on Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe 4 weeks ago:
I can understand not providing general updates after ten years, things like QOL or features, but security updates should be provided much longer. That goes for mobile OSes too. My phone is not receiving them after 5 years, and being a flagship when bought it’s still a banger, 8 Gb RAM, 8K video, good screen, good camera, 5G, etc… The lack of updates is making me look into alternative ROMs, but the general population isn’t capable of doing that.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I understand that perfectly well. The question is: that thing is a tethered balloon. If they expect to have it float 10 Km up, it has to be tethered with a cable at least 10Km long, which should be able to withstand the forces created by wind resistance, plus its own weight, and be conductive, so some lightweight cable won’t cut it, metal will have to be involved, and not some lightweight signal cable, but hefty metal. Will that thing be buoyant enough to lift that cable?
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 5 weeks ago:
Is that thing going to be able to float itself and support the weight of the cables at the altitudes they talk about?
- Comment on FYI (opinion.) don't buy an MMU 5 weeks ago:
I may agree in a DIY setting, but for a business it’s a sunken cost fallacy. I’ve owned 2 businesses where productive equipment were integral. Replacing machinery where there is a substantial improvement does make absolute business sense. Also, if you allow a machine to wear out you are shooting yourself in the foot. It’s much better to unload them in the second hand market, and renew. I haven’t owned a print farm, but I’m certain that amortization is fairly quick.
- Comment on FYI (opinion.) don't buy an MMU 5 weeks ago:
The industrial ones may be tough, but the one in the video looks janky and the abundance of printed parts does not inspire confidence in its longevity. Also, it is an addon to an MMU, making the whole multi color set up closer to $500, and limited to bowden, which precludes flexibles. Once a tool has been swapped it must be heated to the proper temp for the filament.
I’m not intimately knowledgeable with subtractive CNC, but I own and have used a lot a hand router, so I’m familiar with the business end of the things. Reliability is not going to be the same with a dry tool or toolhead, than with an oozy nozzle.
The system is for bedslingers only, which are inferior to cartesian or CoreXY cube printers.
The INDX is way more capable, simpler (thus likely more reliable) made by Bondtech, which has a proven reliability and performance record.
The only scenario where I see this being equal or superior to a toolhead changer is, well, none.
- Comment on FYI (opinion.) don't buy an MMU 5 weeks ago:
If you have a print with supports, having a support filament that adds little extra time, compared to an MMU, is much more than nice. Being able to use rigid and flexible prints reliably in the same print is more than nice. From what I have read, flexibles in MMUs are prone to failure.
- Comment on FYI (opinion.) don't buy an MMU 5 weeks ago:
The swapper may reduce poop, but it looks like it won’t reduce print times.
Also, it looks like it has a ton of failure points. Tool changers are much simpler and faster.
- Comment on FYI (opinion.) don't buy an MMU 5 weeks ago:
Most MMUs are in the 300€ range. For that money you’ll soon be able to buy an INDX tool changer from Bondtech.
No Brainer.
- Comment on Filament blobs 5 weeks ago:
Wild guess here:
Maybe your hotend thermistor is failing, but not dead, cutting out intermittently, which could cause the hot end temperature to be fluctuating, thus alternatively under or over extruding.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 30 comments
- Comment on Is there no good inexpensive CAD software? 5 weeks ago:
That’s my take too. Also, while pre 1.0 development was kind of slow, it looks like it’s picking up speed. I guess releasing 1.0 may have given it much needed visibility, and probably attracted some developers.
- Comment on Filament blobs 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s caused by a 3D printer.
Now seriously, what printer is it?
- Comment on Venezuelan president's YouTube account offline as tensions with US escalate 5 weeks ago:
Im really worried that YouTube is a near monopoly in self made video streaming, and it’s currently the only safety net for people like Kimmel, Colbert, et al.
The moment that Google bows to Turd, reaching mass audiences with independent content will be much harder.
- Comment on Which Core XY printer? 5 weeks ago:
I had a micro print farm making covid stuff, like face masks, ear savers, and stuff. I had 2 Ender 5 plus, an an Ender 5. I wound it down and kept 1 E5 plus. My machine is heavily modded and tuned, so it suits me fine, except for multi color.
I’m deciding on the evolution of my setup. My first logical option is mod my E5+ more, and add Bondtech INDX later this year. I’ll have a hybrid coreX, fast, multicolor XL printer, but it only makes sense because I have eliminated most of the E5+ weaknesses, and intimately know the printer. At that point it will essentially be a custom one-off machine.
Another option would be to buy a Snapmaker U1, which is an insane value, and is, with the Prusa Core one a true next generation multicolor machine. AMS, And other MMUs, (multi material units), are evolutionary dead ends, made obsolete by tool changers.
A good option may be an enclosed Sovol SV08, essentially a rebuilt Voron, upgraded with the INDX tool hanger.