morbidcactus @ morbidcactus @lemmy.ca

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For shits and giggles decided to take a look at the site

Steel too, we produce a lot of specialty products used for automotive and construction, as well as a lot of tin plate used in food packaging and appliances. They produce material stateside of course but they do historically buy an awful lot from us.

When I worked in steel during the last tariffs, that company ended up eating them, with favourable exchange (see weak dollar) and tariffs jacking the spot prices they still managed record profits.

Is your shop/garage/space heated? That's really impressive if not, I'm probably going to look at something like the clicky-clack door if that's the case, I've been ducttaping the gap instead of figuring out a proper seal. The tiny space heater I have in the garage just can't cut it with it actually being cold this week, so doubt I'd be able to hit those chamber temps in the winter. That soak time tracks with mine as well.

How are you planning on mounting the radiant insulation? Like between the frame and panels? Very much considering going that route on both printers, be interested seeing how well that performs, be interesting if anyone did something with Vacuum insulated panels, maybe sandwiched between ACM or something to protect them, they're fairly rigid if I recall but it'd suck to accidentally puncture one.

As @renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net said, infant mortality is a concern with spinning disks, if I recall (been out of reliability for a few years) things like bearings are super sensitive to handling and storage, vibrations and the like can totally cause microscopic damage causing premature failure, once they're good though they're good until they wear out. A lot of electronics follow that or the infant mortality curve, stuff dying out of the box sucks, but it's not unexpected from a reliability POV.

Shitty of Seagate not to honour the warranty, that'd turn me off as well. Mine is pettier, when I was building my nas/server I initially bought some WD reds, returned those and went for some Seagate ironwolf drives because the reds made this really irritating whine you could hear across the room, at the time we had a single room apartment so was no good.

I vaguely recall seeing things like this over the years. You'd want a proper annealing setup IMO if you care about functional parts, assume you'd want a mill too as that'd probably have a really nasty surface.

That totally ignores the fantastic metal vapours and other stuff that a metal printer would give off. Don't get me wrong, I think metal printing is a super interesting idea, def think it's more industrial though.

On the other hand, there are products like BASF ultrafuse that are intended to be printed on fdm plastic printers and through post processing you'll end up with a metal print. No idea how well they work, but idea seems interesting and may be more accessible to hobbyists.

For lack of a better term I find it "interesting" that they're using the outdated term named for a Nazi collaborator

Misunderstood that then sorry!

I think you're onto something wrt to thermals honestly, the changes in translucency are odd. Do you get any inconsistencies doing large solid infill? Was having some issues that'd only show up on mid print solid surfaces, top and bottom layer were slow enough to mitigate, can't recall exactly what I did but changing spool and nozzle seemed to have helped plus I did a pid tune.

Mildly concerned I don't have a root cause, but it seems to be resolved now.

Edit: other thing I can think of with it having sat for some time, maybe you could have an issue with lubrication settling? Linear bearings can be a right pain to grease if you don't have access to them, but some light oil on the rails is better than nothing, what I've done when things sit for a while, though cycling things is likely doing more than any external lubrication would.

Definitely recommend the Ellis3D guides. There's a lot of inconsistency with walls, wobble between layers, extrusion widths etc means that measuring walls probably isn't going to give you an accurate measurement to base things off of, Ellis has some really solid (imo) steps to walk through and does have rational/explanations as to what their approach is.

Edit: Looking at your photo, almost looks like a woodgrain pattern, you said you changed your extruder, could possibly be the backlash setting? Too little or too much can apparently cause some recurring patterns.

Offtopic, how are you doing abs? An enclosure is a must, with one you should be able to do successful prints so long as you have a heated bed. Give it a good long heat soak at a high bed temp (I do 105-110c on the prusa) for an hour before you even start will go a long way. If you have enclosure or bed fans, even better, you'd be surprised just how hot you can get an enclosure with just the bed, this on my v2.4 so it's a higher than the prusa

Make sure your surface is oil free, dish soap and water if your surface allows it, some of the smooth pe surfaces I've had better luck roughing them up a bit with a scotchbrite pad or brass brush. I use a Buildtak surface these days but had success with standard sheets and a brim.

Great way of putting it!

I'm super for making hobbies accessible, and let's be real, I'd be willing to assume most of us have probably been burned by something like this in the past. Probably not a bad idea to have some sort of community resource for information, guides etc, might help some people in the future avoid it if it's something they care about.

Also going to be realistic, I absolutely care and advocate for open products that you fully control, but I know that it just doesn't matter to everyone.

I use Spoolman with labels to manage that, plugs into klipper so tracks usage, can swap filament on the screen. It supports qr code labels too, wanting to do something with scan in/scan out in the future but just having my filament tracked is helpful.

Anxiety over missing my meds keeps me (mostly) on track, I do however forget to request refills until the last bloody moment though, love how the process for ADHD treatment is so anti ADHD...

Unironically yeah, sitting on the other side of the table it's painfully obvious when people do resume projects. I'd rather talk to you about something you're passionate about.

First off, on reading, yeah sorry. I meant no offense, was the headline on the article I chose and I said, it really bothers me how disengaged Canadians are from our political system to the detriment of us all.

To be pedantic, Arthur Meighen was a Tory PM appointed after Borden resigned, and again after the Byng-King affair. More recently, Kim Campbell was appointed after the resignation of Mulroney

I do agree with you wrt our system needing changing, I'm vehemently in favour of literally anything but fptp but prefer something like stv. Personally, I'd also be in favour of rescinding the mandatory election dates put in place in what, 2007-2008 and really would like to return to the per-vote subsidies (just get money out of politics period).

While I can get your intent in that you feel that the PM should have a mandate (again, arguably that mandate is fulfilled if they are capable of maintaining confidence of the house), Canadians are ignorant about our system of government (anecdotally, I know Canadians who consume more American news media and pay attention to their elections, but don't do the same domestically, likely contributing) which is a problem (and a point of irritation for me).

Our system is fundamentally different than the presidential republic that the yanks have, you do not vote for the PM, you vote for your rep. The PM is the person with confidence of the house, which often is the plurality party leader, but there's no requirement of this at all, there's history of the PM not even being an MP in Canada, two of them were senators who took office after the PM died.

Your MP is your voice, tell them to vote non confidence if you truly feel that an election should be called, I feel fairly safe to say however that once parliament resumes we're going to see that happen anyhow and the writ dropped shortly thereafter or the PM asking to GC to dissolve parliament.

Oh for sure, I'm firmly on the side of building a kit or sourcing your own for something like a voron v0.2 for people unfamiliar/uncertain; not a huge investment, will learn a lot assembling it and you'll have an abs capable machine that's yours at the end of the day. I do still absolutely recommend prusa kits too or second hand older ones, super easy to modify and there's and absolute wealth of information (and mods) for them.

Board swaps and conversion kits more for people who already have something and would rather modify it than buying a whole new machine, less waste than tossing the whole printer and getting a new one. Could use as a platform for something like a switchwire, there's an Ender 3 conversion out there for example, and looks like there's an anycubic Viper one too and another

Seen some threads on reddit of people swapping out for skr boards, found a git repo doing that for an adapter kit but does look to have things documented.

End of the day, it's just some steppers, sensors and heaters, klipper supports a bunch of different printer types (bed slinger, core xy, core xz, cartesian, polar, like seriously a lot). Hard part on some of these would more likely be connect components to the board, need to know voltages and pinout for example, but if you can figure that out you're good. Klipper is amazing and you can replicate a lot of custom stuff in macros.

I have to wonder if some of it is comfort or familiarity, I had a negative reaction to python the first time I ever tried it for example, hated the indent syntax for whatever reason.

I'm fine with bash for ci/cd activities, for what you're talking about I'd maybe use bash to control/schedule running of a script in something like python to query and push to an api but I do totally get using the tools you have available.

I use bash a lot for automation but PowerShell is really nice for tasks like this and has been available in linux for a while. Seen it deployed into production for more or less this task, grabbing data from a sql server table and passing to SharePoint. It's more powerful than a shell language probably needs to be, but it's legitimately one of the nicer products MS has done.

End of the day, use the right tool for the job at hand and be aware of risks. You can totally make web requests from sql server using ole automation procedures, set up a trigger to fire on update and send data to an api from a stored proc, if I recall there's a reason they're disabled by default (it's been a very long time) but you can do it.