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. I've got a storage room full of woodworking stuff right now and no good way to organize the little hardware bits - screws, dowel pins, that kind of thing. So probably a small bin with dividers if that's an option tonight. Also kind of curious how tolerances work for interlocking pieces, like if a bin lid needs to snap on. Read a little about clearance gaps last week and now I can't stop thinking about it 😎 Conner's been asking to help so hoping to bring him along one of these weeks.
practical, or I'll never hear the end of it from Natalie. bin for the garage. bless the fun stuff later.
same boat, jordyn already has a list 💀
Kimball, 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. gonna print a bracket for the bathroom shelf that's been sluffing off the wall 🙈
Jacob, 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 too. I was gonna guess tighter was better but that makes sense, warping'll get you every time. Dividers work for me, I've got a drawer of screws and bits that needs it bad. Conner wants to watch tonight, might let him hit print 🤙
Kimball that's literally my drawer situation right now. dividers are smart. also 0.2mm noted for me too, tighter always sounded better in my head lol
Kimball, 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.
Went bracket route too but bumped speed up and paid for it with warping! Slow down, learned.
Andrew, week 3 taught me the same lesson the hard way. speed feels efficient till the corners lift. slow and boring wins hree 👍 🤙
Andrew, 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. brackets don't warp themselves twice. 🤙 🤙
Kyle, that's the drawer-tray logic right there, solve it once instead of buying the fix five times. Log the speed you settle on so bracket number two doesn't relearn the lesson.
fair. still recovering from the BELT disaster in week 3 🤙
Kyle, 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.