morbidcactus

@morbidcactus@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Prusa Mk4 has done it again ☹️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Says a lot that it can run pretty much maintenance free for a year and a half! I only had issues with my mk3s doing daily enclosed abs prints in the summer, the original petg softened and it ended up killing the idler end of the x axis (idler mount deformed suddenly under tension after like… 1-2 months of that). They may not be the fastest or fanciest but they’re easy to service and in my experience pretty reliable, I repacked the linear bearings after a year or so out of precaution when I did a full rebuild, but I don’t expect needing to do that for a long time.

  Here’s another prusa article for infill patterns, the prusa knowledge base is really decent and applicable to a variety of printers, I use my voron a lot but still refer to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Prusa Mk4 has done it again ☹️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Grid infill is crossing, get a decent blob or buildup and you could have nozzle collision, I personally like gyroid but it is slower.

  Had a similar failure on the mk3s, what does the belt tension test return? Stealth mode may help or be the cause, anecdotally I’ve seen mention of motor temps, the old rambo board running stock firmware they got toasty when printing in the enclosure in the summer, stealth helped me limp it along until I did a board swap and changed to klipper. I don’t know if this is an issue with the mk4 as that’s not using the older Rambo based boards, but something to consider as well, had it happen even after I did the first abs rebuild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll third it, I used Solidworks before, freecad was fairly easy to adapt to before the 1.0 release, workflow is even nicer now, trying to convince my dad to move to freecad over paying for a sw subscription now that he’s retired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keychain tool and text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how bambu studio does it (use prusa/superslicer) but chiming in because I was trying to figure this out last year doing a large ish batch of keychains for a friend and was fighting a bit with it, probably is a way of doing it all in freecad but the image was my biggest issue.

  I ended up doing things in blender to subtract the image and the slicer itself, did a text object, positioned it where I wanted, merged the objects and marked the text as a negative volume so it was subtracted when I sliced it, might help in your case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I too like to live kind-of-sort-of-dangerously⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering if it was some sort of alignment/clamp for something like pipes or rods, or maybe some sort of bushing/bearing holders (think linear rods). Your tuning looks great btw, look pretty nice even in the worst case lighting conditions, adhesion not an issue doing this way? My dad asked me to print some stuff he designed for his beekeeping tools, has a bearing surface that’s awkward to print accurately, I’m probably going to resist that with this as inspiration, other than the helper ears I see on the build plate anything else you did?

  To ask questions, for the application does dimensional accuracy actually matter? AFAIK rebar isn’t exactly the tightest wrt tolerances (I know flat products, not long products, but knowing what hotroll coils look like I’m assuming it’s similar), could probably have gotten away with a different orientation and could probably have avoided supports (I find arches print nicely). Having said that though, thinking strength might be another reason to print the way you did, face down and you have shear & torsion in between layers, thinking that’s still a concern if you printed it standing, but yeah, just thoughts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I get the clogged filament out of this heatblock?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Softening and that, maybe? But it really depends on the filament brand too, as far as I’m aware, acetone doesn’t readily dissolve in acetone which is what’s meant by not doing much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cassette Beasts, my favorite pokemon-like, is 50% off.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really liked what they did with type matching too, and that shines literally are a different type, had an absolute blast with the game, plays really well on the deck (though it absolutely eats battery life), sticker system was really cool too, just in general they really did a stellar job of interesting systems and the story was interesting too.

  Thinking about it now, I kinda almost want to call it a Pokémon/Golden Sun like? Golden sun had a really awesome system with Djinns where mixing different elements and changing if they were set would literally change that characters class, granted them totally different powers and stats, I’m operating on memory since it’s been a long time but it’s an amazing game, easily my favourite GBA title and I knew there was another game it was reminding me of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ender 3 V2 damage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Petg inside the enclosed though can definitely have a short service life, the original x axis idler on my mk3s gave up the ghost after a month or so of pretty consistent printing of abs in the summer, had expected it so i the first thing I did in abs was a set of prusa spares which lasted until I did a bear mod last year.
  There’s obviously variation in filament though so YMMV, petg is still a solid material to use if you don’t have an enclosure (though I’m always recommending then if only for gasses and fine particles while printing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Bambu lab transparent petg just suck as a material?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer as well as colour, some of the petg I’ve got has been chilling in my cabinet in the garage for at least 1 summer and it prints fine, just some stringing, other spools they’re a mess right out the bag. Still worth drying filament, but more so stuff like nylon which is extremely hygroscopic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keep Tabs On Your Vehicle’s Needs With LubeLogger⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t looked into it but do shops offer lube analysis services? Yeah you could send out your own sample to a lab, having it as a shop service would be way more accessible to people.

  Though, in my experience, getting people to commit can be a pain, lots of “yeah I know we have a long p-f interval and it’s super noticeable before it functionally fails, but it’s not that much effort so I’m doing needless maintenance anyhow just in case”, which end of the day you do you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always known your world is complex, working closely with accountants and actuaries the last 4 years doing data applications further confirmed that, there’s some legitimately complex math that shows up, and it’s a lot of work to model that correctly.

  “It’s just a …” Is a redflag to me, project’s going to be a gongshow.

  I find that mentality of not trying to understand the problem and its context totally counter to the engineering method.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I get the clogged filament out of this heatblock?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmmm, yeah that sucks, that first block I mentioned was an older style that wasn’t fixed in place and I must have twisted it accidentally after a nozzle change, super slow leak just enveloped the thing, didn’t help there either!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Print Data Recorder concept⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i was thinking along those lines for equipment monitoring stuff, klipper works with Prometheus & grafana (have metrics from my printers), was thinking about looking at using the extra accelerometers I have to do something like vibration monitoring.

  I could see using a second sbc for extra sensors as well for support, thinking about printers that don’t run klipper, so long as you can correlate data it should still be useful. Honestly kinda thinking something similar to PLC data, was fantastic for fault finding and failure investigations, also useful for process control + condition based maintenance, there’s a heck of a lot that could be done with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I get the clogged filament out of this heatblock?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What type of filament? Acetone doesn’t do much to things like pla or petg, stuff that works aren’t things you generally want around the house, industrial solvents and stuff.

  Cold pull as others recommended, nozzles are consumables, def should keep some around. Cleaning filament works pretty well in my experience if you have a partial clog. Have had some success soaking partially clogged nozzles in acetone (not the best but it’s something with long enough residence times), but that won’t get you up and running today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Klipperized Mk3s and A1⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kept them with linear rods, rails were more than I wanted to do at the time. I changed over to a dragon HF after liking it on my voron, just to keep common parts. Hey, its good to know at least that I can probably push more, tuning a profile for it is definitely going to be on my list.

  The ObXidian nozzles are really nice, I just have a 0.4mm and 0.6mm regular nozzles, I’ve used a bunch of hardened coated nozzles before, seem nicer than those but haven’t tested much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Klipperized Mk3s and A1⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bear modded mine at the same time and a few other things, biggest for me was that I liked my macros on my voron and I could share them and the motors are substantially quieter.

  I haven’t pushed it acceleration wise, do you have any print profiles for prusaslicer or the like? I definitely have room to work with on mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Audible enclaves’ could enable private listening without headphones.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ones I have have some speakers aimed at your ear to fill in that part, actually works really well. I can’t stand the ear buds you physically insert into your ears, the rubber tipped ones, these have been good to replace my on ears for activity. Plus you can hear what’s around you which is why my partner gifted me them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BRASSICAS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sprouts do well with Braising, this is roughly how I do them, based on a whim that turned out fantastic.

  1. Halve and clean your sprouts, salt and pepper them
  2. Sear cut side down in oil of your choice. Bacon is the classic but absolutely not required if you want to do it vegan, maybe use some smoked paprika to get the smokey flavour, add aromatics like garlic near the end, it burns easy.
  3. Deglaze with balsamic vinegar, add enough liquid to just barely cover the bottom of the pan, cover and simmer until happy.

  I know sprouts are far less bitter than they were when I was a kid, but I legit thought I disliked them. Borrowed a lot from braised cabbage recipes, just with a bit more aggressive browning. The sprouts hold up really well to longer cooking IMO (can’t say the same to leeks, braised leeks are great, but not how I did them, turned into a textural nightmare), they’re amazing hot or cold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make your complaints heard about bad games, says Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah, but "your $70 doesn't buy you cruelty"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Combat changes put me off initially but honestly, enjoyed it far more than inquisition, combat is far closer to me:a and that’s a good thing, me:a is easily the best mass effect game mechanically (and that’s coming from someone who still loves me1), skill tree is massive and you can respec whenever to try different things, as an RPG I personally felt it’s quite strong. Also, felt da:v was more focused wrt maps, da:i has really large, empty maps that I originally tried to do everything in, by the hissing wastes unless it was shards or an interesting side quest I ignored it.

  Felt them making companions invulnerable was a good idea too, da:i on nightmare they usually died almost immediately against things like dragons or dlc bosses unless you micromanaged the hell out of them.

  Story wise, it’s me:2; you collect a bunch of experts for an impossible task. Personally, I like bioware RPGs, they’ve always been cheesy. Shepard has lots of one liners that are sarcastic quips, “it’s a big stupid jellyfish” comes to mind immediately, half the dialogue between Shepard and Garus in the later games (especially me:3). One criticism is probably shared with me:a, we had time to experience the me characters over the course of the games, they weren’t immediately like that, but honestly it never really bothered me, jade empire has really cheesy dialogue and is up there for me flaws and all.

  IMO one thing bioware has always done well is world building and veilguard isn’t an exception to that for me, I like that the set the game in a region only really mentioned in previous games.

  is it the best game I’ve ever played? No but definitely an enjoyable one, I personally feel we’ll see retrospectives in a handful of years like I’ve seen with me:a recently (another game that was actually solid and had some interesting ideas and concepts)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re golden then, I do Wii and earlier on mine, 360 games run but I haven’t really played much with them. I quite like the deck for emulation and it runs old titles well (and recent stuff too, I really liked Nine Sols, it’s not a demanding game though, apparently cyberpunk plays well on the deck, not tried that though)

  I bought an LCD model when they were really cheap, still a good model and solid device, but I got my partner an oled one as a gift, I highly recommend that one if it’s in your budget, it looks better, has HDR and a better battery life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're on the fence about building or buying a 3d printer enclosure, please let me give you a push.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bit of a, bit of b, thermal protection on printers sets a minimum hotend and bed temperature, it’s configurable but 0c is pretty common. Drop below that and the firmware will trip an emergency shutdown in klipper, some (mk3s) set off an alarm beeper when that happens.

  Higher ambient helps with chamber temps too depending on what you print. I let my printers heat soak for at least an hour before I print anyhow, the space heater gives some stability in ambient temps.

  Also done prints where I’ve just blasted the hotend and build plate with a heatgun to get above the min temps to be able to get a heat soak going. Vorons have a decently powerful bed heater (~600w if I recall), my mk3s isn’t nearly as powerful but still capable of sustaining itself (would definitely benefit from insulation)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're on the fence about building or buying a 3d printer enclosure, please let me give you a push.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t live in the coldest place but it’ll hit -20s c at the coldest in the winter with -10 +/-5, summer is 30 +/-5. My garage isn’t climate controlled but not the largest, a space heater is enough to bring ambient up enough to be comfortable, certainly enough where the printer firmware doesn’t kick out on low temperatures.

  I have enclosures so it helps some, mk3s doesn’t get super warm as it’s currently setup but I do regularly successfully print abs on it, petg and pla aren’t an issue at all, voron gets substantially warmer. Summer, enclosures need to be open to print pla depending how hot it is. Even with all that, I’d recommend it, I do it primarily for air quality reasons, I’ve printed abs indoors without an enclosure in the same room exactly once a long time ago, 0/10 don’t recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your ideal ambient humidity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stuff that’s in use I try to keep inside the enclosure, no humidity control in my garage so at the whims of humid continental climate, gets nasty in the summer. I keep things vac sealed with silca gel for long periods and print from dry boxes or enclosure mounts to take advantage of the lower humidity while printing.

  Working on a powered dry box using solid state dehumidifiers like used in this, hope that’ll help with humidity issues.

  Some filament isn’t super sensitive, my experience pa6>petg>abs=pla.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Microwave Heating To Locally Anneal CNT-Coated FDM Prints⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick look, found a place that offers some They’re not cheap but you can definitely get them.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Microwave Heating To Locally Anneal CNT-Coated FDM Prints⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably, it’s not pleasant stuff afaik, was looking at it earlier and it seemed like you could probably source it domestically fairly easily too, didn’t seem like you’d need special licenses or anything. Not stuff I want to keep around though, not that a lot of solvents that work on thermoplastics are nice to be around for one reason or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any better mechanical keyboards that don't break the bank?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ducky has programmable keys FYI, while you don’t have dedicated media keys it’s really easy to bind media key macros, fn+pg up/down are volume, fn+end is pause etc on mine.

  Razer keyboards I’d shy away from personally, found their build quality isn’t great, mice specifically, the ducky is more comfortable for me to use anyhow. My partner has a one 3 tkl in white with clears, I have a black one with browns (used blacks for years, prefer tactile+clicky after having used them).

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada | 'I did not expect to be a slave': Amnesty International report exposes abuse of migrant workers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just search TFW on the CBC’s website, program is just rife with abuse, both of workers and “improper” usage, it’s abhorrent to me.

  • Wage suppression? √ (through companies skirting requirements)
  • Class of workers with no path to citizenship (some got extended pr during covid, I may be mistaken but my understanding is the permits have a hard end date)? √
  • Multiple instances and allegations of both physical and sexual abuse of workers? √
  • Horrendous working and living conditions, contributing heavily to covid excess mortality? √
  • I recall reports some workers had their passports confiscated, and some places charge a lot for lodging.

  It’s made worse that everything I’ve mentioned is from headlines over at least the last 2 decades. It’s not just agriculture either, Tim Horton’s has has them, so have other fast food places.

  To be clear, I’m for these workers being here, they deserve to be safe to do their job, a good wage and if they want to stay, a way for them to become citizens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden is Building the World’s Largest City Made Entirely From Timber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought that too when they started doing wooden condos in some areas of Canada, but it’s an engineered product (cross-laminated timber), not just plain wood. Apparently it’s super dense and chars instead of burning outright, some tests had them self extinguishing from this abstract (using a specific adhesive)