mechanismatic

@mechanismatic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make this work? Or should I give up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bed adhesion is usually the biggest issue, often attributable to the z height being off, and a lot of older printers didn’t have z-axis sensors or the software to accommodate for the variances, so it involved the old paper test. Depending on the printer, it might shake itself out of its z height setting while printing. A lot of people ended up spending as much as the cost of their printer upgrading with after market parts to try to resolve some of these issues.

  I haven’t used the Monoprice before, but my research says that Monoprice doesn’t make their own printers. They just rebrand someone else’s. So the Monoprice Maker Select appears to be a rebranded Wanhao Duplicator i3, which looks like it came out sometime in 2016. So while you might have bought it six years ago, the actual printer design is much older and missing out on possibly 9 years worth of innovations.

  If you can eventually afford to replace it with something else, there are some sub-$400 printers out now that might give you a much nicer experience. I started with an Ender 3 v2, which was a pain, similar to what you experienced. I upgraded to a Sovol SV06, which was great (and recommended to me by a professional with a print farm and wide variety of printers). Now I’m on a Prusa CORE One, but I don’t recommend spending big until you know you’re really into 3D printing. If you do consider buying a newer printer at some point, I’d recommend seeing if you can see someone else’s in action so you can experience the difference. Makerspaces might be a good resource for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make this work? Or should I give up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, with the factors you mentioned, you might want to cut your losses because I’m guessing you’ll just become more frustrated if you try to get more out of it. There is a learning curve for 3D printing, especially with older models like the one you have. The quality of printers has vastly improved for beginners in the last six years. Without the ability/funds to upgrade to a newer printer, what you have may be more trouble than it’s worth because it would likely take a lot of effort and learning to get it working decently. You might also need new filament since anything old is likely brittle after absorbing moisture over the years.

  That said, I wouldn’t give up on 3D printing entirely. It can be a great experience. Maybe find a local makerspace that can help you or that has 3D printers of their own to learn on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking to get my first 3d printer, any suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For around $300, there are some newer models that are significantly better than an Ender 3. The Elegoo Centauri Carbon has been getting good reviews. I started with an Ender 3 V2, spent much of my time dealing with bed adhesion issues, then moved on to a Sovol SV06 which has a lot fewer issues and in some scenarios printed better than the Prusa MK4Ss I have at work. I recently upgraded to a Prusa CORE One, which is great, but I wouldn’t recommend spending the money if you don’t think you’re going to print much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D printing sites should require a printed model when uploading a design.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The website would have to verify the lack of a print photo. I’m guessing at this point it would probably be some AI image recognition filter so they don’t need to have humans verify all the uploads manually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let us celebrate our mutual experience of close proximity by touching our multi-fingered appendages to one another's - Person who invented the handshake, probably.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would guess someone invented the handshake in prehistoric times and we just have no medium in which a record could exist aside from an undiscovered cave drawing or something like that. Humans seem to naturally touch hands outside of any social influence or cultural history. Babies reach out and people touch their hands. It seems like a pretty intuitive human action. We touch things with our hands, so other hands seems natural as a thing to touch. The shake just seems like a minor variation on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D printing sites should require a printed model when uploading a design.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the same way that Printables has an option to hide AI-generated content from the search results, you could just have an option toe exclude models without print photos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for the happiness in finding the exact right word?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can coin a neologism if you can’t find an existing word.

  onomato- is a prefix that is often used to mean word or name felic- is a prefix that means happy ortho- can mean correct, but also straight

  So maybe orthonomatofelicity?

  Probably too long.

  Maybe just onomatofelicity?

  There are other roots you can find with similar meanings to mix up your own neologism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That note was both sharp and flat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your go-to sites to find free 3D files to print?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Printables and Thingiverse typically. Sketchfab is great for 3D scans of real objects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Renovation was right—and we're ahead of schedule⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NES and SNES were much more ubiquitous and often the exclusive consoles for a lot of games, so Sega was coming up with it’s own line of games that weren’t as likely to enter collective memory or later have movies made out of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sovol SV08 or Prusa MK4S⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently traded up my Sovol SV06 for a Prusa CORE One and have MK4Ss and an SV07 Plus at work. The Sovols are good budget machines in general, but the SVO6 was so much more reliable than the SV07 Plus, which required a lot more troubleshooting. The MK4Ss and the CORE One are great if you have the budget to spend on them. They’re reliable and good quality. The community of users is large and any issues you might run into have typically been troubleshot by others already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this my extruder squeaking? How can I stop it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard squeaking from an extruder that had little bits and shards of previous filament that was getting stuck during loading and unloading of filament rolls. You might try opening it up and seeing if there’s anything stuck in the channel or grinding against a gear.