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  • this isn't for you. this is for our children and their children.

    If we continue this trend no one will own anything. life will be a subscription model.

    Project further than the next 5 years, its going to get ugly if we don't start making real change.

  • been saying this over and over for a while now

    Make the 3rd home any entity owns taxed at 50% property tax rate. Make it prohibitively expensive to try and turn the American Dream into a subscription model.

    This is not for us. This is for your children who will otherwise "own nothing and be happy".

  • I can't express how excited this makes me.

    I have been saying for years now that regulation is the only cure for the housing crisis, and resulting homeless crisis.

    I wrote my Congresswoman about this a while back.

    Fuck. Yes.

  • considering I'm replacing the entire hotend it should be good!

    they provide a spare heater-heatbreak-nozzle assembly in the box (thankfully)

    Now I have to figure out how to put it back together lol. its like 10x as complicated as my Ender3 due to being super compact. It's like repairing an Audi vs a Toyota lol

  • GOT IT OUT! Thanks for the advice man. It wasnt the exact solution that worked but gave me hope to try more. Oven at 450F, got nozzle out finally, then torched it heavily until I was able to slide the heat break out. Took a while but I'm so relieved!

  • you can do it directly in CAD too. I put carbon-fiber textures on the back of my phone cases I sell. It's way more realistic feeling compared to the build plates that have the pattern on them.

    It's basically just a ton of little rectangles offset from each other. Then I ensure the bottom/top line direction is [0,90] in cura. You even get that cool depth effect when viewing at certain angles.

  • I did try sticking a small hex-key in the top hole in the heatsink and hitting with a mallet. It didn't budge at all. I don't have a vice though, so maybe I need more leverage to get it out.

    The throat, and heater/nozzle assembly, is able to spin freely. This tells me that the throat and body of the heat break are separated. Yet it they are still connected somehow.

    I am afraid to be too aggressive because if the throat breaks there is nearly no chance of getting the heat break out.

    I saw a reddit post where one guy had luck using a tapping bit, might need to go buy one...

    This is becoming a nightmare. The first printer they sent had a horribly bent/twisted frame. Second one has a bed leveling issue that caused permanent damage to the bed AND made the printer unusable due to a badly-clogged heat break

    edit: forgot to thank you for your time, I appreciate the tips!

  • whatever you do don't get a Creality K1.

    First one had a 10deg bend in the frame, the replacement had a bed leveling sensor issue that ruined my bed and fused my heatsink and heatbreak.

    There are no replacement heat sinks available, so now I have a $700 paper-weight until they finally reply to my email.

    I was a Creality fan boy until this, NEVER AGAIN. Thinking I'll go to Bambu