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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • It was actually very low effort! There are a number of image to STL converters. I used this one: https://imagetostl.com/

    Like you can see it’ll flub some stuff. I would have been better off filling in the areas of text and doing the emboss manually myself, but I just wanted to hit print. 2% infill, I think it was like 2.5g of filament and 20mins.

    It’s fun to screw around with that process. I’m tweaking one of my friends cabin to use to make a mold. My goal is cast concrete or something similar so I can pound some thin copper around it, and be left with a cool wall decoration.






  • I’m only going to be a pedant because that’s sort of the point of these conversations, that’s not a bad interpretation and I appreciate you posting it.

    Edit re-reading your answer we might be saying the same thing. Leaving incase this version lights someone’s bulb

    BUT, it’s not so much that it’s “distributed” as that, so long as the boat floats, there will be a mass of water displaced exactly equal to the mass of the boat. In this case it’s displaced off the bridge (off either end). There is zero force being applied up or downstream (except during the initial transition). That’s the fun thing about incomprehensible fluids, every infinitely small point at the bottom of a water colum ONLY has the force of the column above it acting on it. A pressure gage will read the same for a square mm or square m.

    Spot on with the bowl though. The displaced water can’t leave the system in that case so the masses add.

    Heres the action lab video BTW! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SUq_tM3yGTM&pp=ygUKQWN0aW9uIGxhYg%3D%3D







  • Me to! I was almost done with a batch of prints for a friends fundraiser (30x hat looms for knitting. Great little project, they’re knitting hats for the premies at the NICU, so they needed a custom model for the tiny babys). I think you’re right. With the oozing and whatnot that has to be it. I brought up the fundraiser because it had me making multiple prints of the same file. When I found a setting that worked (moving to the 0.20), the first few worked, but were a bit stringy, but by the 3rd/4th one they were printing flawlessly.

    I guess maybe when things got screwed up at 0.16 the nozzle had some funkiness, and with enough material it worked itself through? Still doesn’t explain why that brand new nozzle screwed up in the first place at 0.16 (which suggests the flow rate issue you brought up), but I’ll take the win.



  • correct. I initiated a return with amazon. I have had a 250g spool in the drier since about 10am today, and will try it this evening, but if that doesn’t work I’m just returning it.

    In trying to do a cold pull (which you do in this machine by attaching the nozzle upside down and manually pushing filament in), it was oozing and popping with the remnants of the previous filament, which to me says very wet filament?

    I had tried drying filament for ~8hrs yesterday with no good results. Is there something else that could cause the oozing issue? My friend brought up that maybe the temperature sensor isn’t working properly and it’s hotter than it thinks it is?