What did you 3D print today?

[Chuck E Ducky]

Printed a hide for my son’s Leopard Gecko, and this wall mount for my longboard.

[Spider!]

I've been working on a knife sharpener setup using my welding table for a few weeks now. Learned more stuff about my printers, sharpeners, and my scrap pile.

The little rack for the ruixin hones was a leftover from trying to organize pocket knives. I think I cleaned out four partial rolls of old PLA.

It's fairly modular, so I still make changes in shapes and filaments of the separate parts which has been interesting.

[BrickHaus]

Well, so much for that venture.. layer shift after 13 hours. I don't think my belt skipped. Seems my x stepper has developed a weak spot because I made it cog out of position trying to pull my bed sheet.

IT happened after I got up, because I took one of these pictures about an hour ago.


I don't think Im willing to try again with this being such a slow and material intense print.

[BrickHaus]

I've been on a tear all week, churning out wigits for kids. Mainly just trying to burn up old filaments. But my niece asked for a labu-bu. And with my limited filaments I gave him red pupils and a red smile. It made her cry.

So I bought a roll of rainbow tpu and I've been having a riot with it today.

Currently trying a 5 walled TPU nova insert case In the stuff.. its gonna be bout 12 hours.

[Chemical-x.....ahain]

Fwiw. I had an air fryer given to me a few years back, while it never really saw use in the kitchen I fir certain purposed it for drying filament. Its important to know the temp range as too hot will cause it to melt.


The ninja air fryer will get as low as 120 which was perfect for my use. Hit up your local goodwill and salvation army for the used appliances, typically they are dirt cheap.

The ninja ended up not liking the duty cycle and took a shit after id used it about 2 dozen times which was pretty good for a free item but not something id reccomend at new price. My S4 dryer was about $160 when I bought it but im still on the fence about its ability to recondition rolls and ive used it a lot.

Now ive not heard anything about the new AMS 2 or the mod units to bring an ams up to drying use. I am intrigued and may end up with an h2c but im still on the fence. And id like to see if BL has any larger units on the horizon.

[lhamilton1807]

I’ve found that pla isn’t as sensitive to moisture as petg or others. It’s pretty forgiving. Getting a used food dehydrator works as a filament dryer just as well. I picked one up that is just a bit bigger than a spool and cut out the tray floors. Works wonders to revive filament.

[BrickHaus]

I have a whole pile of purple glue sticks for that reason
. But honestly with the new orca slicer being way smarter than creality slicer ever was. It just prints now that I've dialed in my g code a bit ( changed the offsets and wipe protocols.)

Im seeing a lot of pocks in the parts though, and you can hear the little snaps as water boils out of the nozzel. I saw a few pocks develop as it printed so Im concinved its water.

The silk has way less pocks than my normal green pla Im trying to burn up.

[Chuck E Ducky]

I found I could get the old stuff to print nice with a lil bit of kids paper glue skimming the plate to get the first layer adhesion to stay put lone enough to get the print going. After it gets a good start it don’t seem to matter how wet it it is.

[BrickHaus]

Who would have though, the 2 year old brittle silk pla that has to be at 48% humidity would turn out like that...
guess a matched lid is on deck

[lhamilton1807]

Rock on! Having two printers means you definitely have a mini factory going. OctoPrint makes managing it all much easier 👍🏼

[BrickHaus]

This is ChoSanJuan 's design. He was gracious enough to give me the files. Still need to order the magnets.

[evilfishsticks]

I was going to draw one of these now nova insert cases in sketchup to print last week but never got around to it.

[BrickHaus]

Printed a nova insert case today. Then some electrical stencils.


Then I started an articulating skeleton shark. For the laughs of it. The neices and nephews always want my wigits.

The I got the dust knocked off my second printer and got it on octoprint.

Making a second rainbow nova insert case now on that printer, just because I knew the g code was solid. I didnt expect this old wet silk filament to work out.

[Chemical-x.....ahain]

Another tweak, I'm happy with this now. Now onto the next part.

[Chemical-x.....ahain]

Minor change up, working on a printed slider. At this point youll just need the sear, ill probably send out for scs machined triggers if this goes well.