3D Update
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