Random tangents
I mean, it’s a shed tour to me, but…
Been meaning to do this for a while. All those shop tours on Youtube, taking an hour to walk round a palacial shop with enough room to store between four and forty of my little shed and still get work done…. meh. I can do that in under two minutes 😀
And since we’re all locked down in Ireland thanks to COVID19 right now…… Read the rest
Over the last few weeks, the stringing problem kept going with the 3D printer. And of course, that caused things like the printing head snagging on a piece after 12 hours and dragging it off the bed…
Not great timing. I did reprint and it worked, this time with the experimental tree support structures which look really neat mid-print:
That orientation was pants though, so for the next segment, it was rotated through 90 degrees:
That worked much better.
Of course, when trying to plug one into the other…
Well, sod.
Print another in the right orientation though and…
Mind you, snapping those together was right on the edge of breaking them and it seems like PLA is *not* the right material. Also, that was the last of my first reel of PLA – I came within an inch or two of running out mid-print:
So I got some more, this time not from Creality because a lot of internet experts were sure that creality filament was the source of reliability issues with prints.… Read the rest
Lots of changes going on at the moment. That’s the nature of sharp transitions – lots of work to get over that step change and then we can settle in. In our case, we’re lucky, mostly we’re having to buy stuff we’d planned to buy over a few months in a few days, set up the home office so both of us can work from there (buying from Ikea instead of making stuff, the horror!) and doing the five million cleanup tasks round the place that normally we can ignore because we’re not here all the time. And the home schooling of course. That’s more a challange because we have to also do day jobs, and the gained time from not commuting every day isn’t quite enough to make up the gap.… Read the rest