Quick poll before we slice anything
For your first real print, are you leaning toward something practical (a bin, a hook, a bracket) or something just for fun to test the machine? No wrong answer. I'll use the results to decide which models we load up for practice tonight.
Practical for sure.
Practical, or ill never hear the end of it frmo Natalie lol. bin for the garage i think... ill get to
ok the word "slice" just sent me thinking about ward party cake instead of brackets lol. practical for me, a bin for the garage. though now im hungry
andrew now im picturing someone slicing a bracket like its cake 😂 practical vote here too, i need a drawer organizer bad
you two are why the ward cake never makes it to the end of the line lol. practical, every time :)
ha fair. ok back to actual printing. bin it is for me
same boat lol jordyn already got a list going, dividers are at the top. whats a good clearance gap for the snap fits?
Dividers are on tonight's list. Clearance gap answer: I run about 0.2mm per side on snap fits, tighter feels satisfying but warps ruin it fast. Andrew, Natalie approves in advance, we'll get you that bin.
0.2mm noted, writing that down before i forget lol. gonna go with that for a bracket im printing for the bathroom shelf, thats been slowly sliding off the wall for like a month now
That bracket's a great pick, real problem solved is the best kind of first print. Just measure the wall gap twice before you commit to the design, that "sluffing" tells me the old anchor points might need to shift a little.
Oh man, 0.2mm per side, writing that down to. i was gonna guess tighter was better but that makes sense lol, warping will getcha every time!
Dividers work for me for sure, I've got a drawer of screws and bits that needs it bad, been putting it off for weeks it's at the point where I open it and just sigh and close it again. conner wants to watch tonight though, might let him hit print 🤙
kimball thats my drawer situation right now lol... dividers are smart, i need to do that instead of just thinking about it, i keep saying i wlil and then dont also 0.2mm noted for me too... tighter always sounded better in my head for some reason lol, guess thats what class is for, figuring out what actually works vs whta i assumed
Let Conner hit that print button, good memory to have. And yeah, tighter clearance is the intuitive guess but plastic doesn't forgive itself the way you'd hope. Dividers tonight, screw drawer's days are numbered.
mine too honestly 😂
I went the bracket route too but bumped the speed up and paid for it with warping lol! learned my lesson the hard way i guess... slowed it back down after that and its been fine since 😂
So Andrew, week 3 taught me this the hard way to lol. speed feels efficient until the corners start lifting on you. slow and boring wins here for sure
That's the lesson that sticks because you watched it happen in real time. Corners lifting is the printer telling you exactly what it thinks of your settings. Slow it back down tonight and log the speed you land on, future brackets will thank you.
practical every time . hope that came out right, rewrote it like three times
That's the practical logic right there, solve it once instead of buying the fix five times.
so still recovering from the BELT disaster in week 3 🤙 not over yet lol
The belt disaster deserves its own shelf next to my melted boat. That's the one where tension was to loose and everything shifted half a millimeter per layer, right? Hang onto it, that one's a keeper for the fail shelf. Good reminder for everybody still printing this summer: check that belt before you trust the print.
ok the "fail shelf" idea is kind of based honestly, kyle's belt disaster next to jacob's melted boat should just be the class trophy case. still bummed we're done, no thursday zoom to look forward to now 🥲
Kassandra, im into the trophy case idea, honestly might build a little bracket to display them side by side. missing the Thursday Zoom too, it was the highlight of my week for six weeks straight. keep printing this summer, and fingers crossed on a fall session