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For many people the size will be fine. Most people can get along with 180 cubed for probably 80% of their printing needs. Not a lot of people need the really large print volumes.

I would assume that a CORE kit would come with Prusa's excellent assembly instructions. Which should make it quite easy to put together.

I'm starting to think that Prusa is switching their focus from consumer grade printers to entry level pro machines and better. Prusa can't really afford to be in that market as the race to the bottom accelerates. But there is a niche for small business use and full blown commercial use. Qidi seems to be the only player in that market right now. And the CORE seems to offer all the goodies that Qidi has with a much better reputation for reliability and support that would appeal to a small business.

I'm not so sure Prusa will go out of business. But I can see them switching focus from consumer machines to "pro-consumer" machines due to the race to the bottom with consumer machines. It's impossible for Prusa to compete with Chinese manufacturers on price. The XL and the HT90 already appear to be moves towards that focus.

While I have recently added a Bambu A1 mini to sit along side my trusty old Mk3s+, that Prusa ain't going nowhere. You will get my Mk3s when you can pry it from my cold dead hands..........

Nah, you already know the problem, you just need to self medicate.

My money is on fusion before proper socialism.

There is always someone willing to twist the rules and game the system to get more money and power than everyone else. The 1% have always existed and so have the worker class. It will always shake out to that.

The underlying point of my answer is that there is very little new under the sun. Most everything we "enjoy" today, is merely an extension and improvement of an idea that someone had earlier. From assault rifles to television to space flight. We merely extend the path of those that walked it before.

I never have thought that the trope "If you want an answer to a question, post something wrong" was a good method. If you have a question about something, ask the question. The problem is, most people ask their questions in the wrong place. Don't ask a question about fixing your car in a hair salon. And don't ask about hair cuts in a mechanic shop.

Nope. There where several "assault rifles" designed and built long before the StGew44 or the AK47 showed up.

The Italians even adopted one in the 1890s. But because Italian industry wasn't, let's just say not very capable at the time, only small numbers were produced. Even the Browning BAR, adopted in 1918, predates it and lasted far longer in service around the world.

If there is one thing the Germans did give to the world was the Reinheitsgebot in 1516. Because beer should only be made from water, barley, and hops. For that alone, they stand tallest in history.

I wash my hands for nearly a minute. But most of that time is spent trying to get those stupid no touch faucets to work.

They often are partially recycled material. But recycled paper isn't like recycling aluminum or steel. There are limits to how often and how much of the cycled material you can add back to make useful paper products.

But paper towels can and does make great compost as most gardeners know. And a properly run landfill is a compost pile. But you need to keep the nasty garbage out.

Yes you can assume all people don't wash their hands correctly.

Sounds like it's fine for decorative pieces but less so for items that require strength if you need to place severe limits on top and bottom and perimeters plus infill.

Violence from the masses requires the masses to feel like they are starving, sick, and dying with no way out except death. We have been slowly accelerating towards that violence for a while now.

Watch for an increase for those CEO's, (at least insurance and pharmaceutical CEOs), to have much increased budget for private security measures. Both in surveillance and personnel. I think we will start to see more 'black limo caravans' like the the POTUS moves around in. And being surrounded by people in black suits with guns openly visible. They will do whatever it takes to stay alive and be evil.

The next question is: how long before politicians start becoming targets?

10 cent Near beer, (NA beer today), available for us kids to buy on street vending machines.

Some of my best memories was being able to get into town in the evenings after all the chores were done and playing baseball with my friends on a hot summer evening. And when we were done, we would walk uptown to the one pop machine that had Hamms near beer in it. At 10 cents for a 12 oz bottle it was amazing. So cold and so refreshing.

People today would absolutely lose their minds over 9 or 10 kids standing around on a sidewalk drinking NA beer today.

That's a small amount of old airplanes. It's not like there are 250 million 1947 Piper Cubs flying a 100,000+ Km a year.

Show me examples. And show that such examples haven't degraded over time.

I understand that the state has a monopoly on violence. Violence IS the ultimate power to rule no matter the form of government. What you don't understand is you can't limit that power. Once granted, even on what might appear to be a limited basis, and it's never limited for long, cannot be revoked. You can totally remove the power of the government to use violence and then hand that power to the populace-- but this is not a good idea. The only thing dumber than the government is the public.

The person I responded to stated plainly, they were for killing billionaires. They just didn't want the government to do it. So he must be willing to pull the trigger himself. Which is a valid political stance. Even though I think it's very misguided.

You have read into a plain statement something YOU believe. And if you don't understand that, then I don't know what to tell you either.

So you are a more hands on type. You are fine with the killing if it's you as a a worker class pulling the trigger.

There are a few studies starting to show up about FDM food safety. Very preliminary results seems to indicate it's not as unsafe as everyone claims. After all, think about all those plastic cutting boards in daily use in commercial kitchens and homes across the world right now. How much bacteria gets hidden in all those cuts?

But the upshot is that more comprehensive studies do need to be done to determine just how safe or unsafe FDM printed food items are. It's still at the point of YMMV and proceed with caution as determined by your own risk tolerance.

PETG benefits a bit from drying. Though I don't really get too excited unless I see stringing.

Adjust your retractions. Look at your retraction settings. You might need a bit longer and faster retraction. Or you might not want any retraction at all. YMMV per machine and filament and print. I like the scarf joint over straight retractions.

Wipe at the start and during a reaction.

Lower your print speeds a bit. I find running a bit slower helps with quality.

Lower your cooling fan speeds. PETG doesn't play well in a hurricane. Even keeping it off completely has helped me on certain prints.

Use temp towers to choose the best temp for minimal stringing.

Notice I didn't provide any numbers. That's because every machine and the environment it works in is a rule unto itself. But your slicer will give you a baseline to start from. It's up to you to figure out how to tune the settings you need to get the best results for your printer. There are no shortcuts here.

If they did, they wouldn't need engineers.

But it's more of a division of labor I think.

It is the job of the scientist to discover a new idea. It is the job of an engineer to kill enough people to make the idea just safe enough to turn loose on the public.

Remember kiddies, scientific principles are written in ink. Engineering principles are very often written in blood.

So pasteurization does nothing?