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Rosemarie
Hi,
I enjoy listening to your podcast!
I have four Bambu Lab printers, each with its own issue as to why the printer is not working.
There are connectors with corresponding pins which constantly fail when having to pull out the pin to clear a clog, change a nozzle, or install a replacement part. I align the pin properly within the connector BUT it doesn’t ‘catch’. How do I remedy this issue apart from throwing all four printers out of the third floor window of my home?
Yours truly,
A very frustrated BL owner.

Matthew
I am new to the 3-D printer world and I just put in my pre-order for the Elegoo Centauri Carbon today. I have never done any 3-D printing and have minimal experience with Shapr3d generating 3-D models. What recommendations do you have for me to research/study so I can hit the ground running when my printer should arrive this summer. I am also a new listener so if you have any episodes you can reference for me to focus on that would be helpful. Thank you for keeping this podcast going.

JJ, Jerry and Guy have a great conversation on a lot of different topics. New printers, printer issues and other fun 3d printing things.

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I want to put a touch screen on my ender 2 pro without any knob on like I have on my ender cr-6se and was wondering if you know if I get a cr-6 one would it be plug and play?
Is there a community firmware for the ender 2 pro?
Thanks, William

I am looking at buying a new printer for myself as a Christmas present and right now there’s two big questions in my mind. One is the Qidi plus 4. Seems like everything I want on paper with speed, accuracy, build quality and most important to me – Is its ability to print high temperature materials with the heated chamber.
I am designing parts that could benefit from some more exotic materials like PBT, PP-CF, glass filled ABS etc. I know that there’s a recall with the heater heated chamber relay on the plus 4, but it really does look like they’re gonna make it right for customers. They’re gonna give what’s needed to repair it. I’m not concerned about repairing things, it’s easy for me to do a little bit of work for some maintenance and upgrades over the years.
On the other hand, I’m really really enticed by the new K2 max. I don’t particularly need its larger volume. K2 max does a lot of the same things that the plus 4 does as far as high temperatures and heated chamber and the K2 max seems to be from a brand and a company that’s a little bit more trustworthy. I don’t particularly want the multimaterial system, I don’t mind changing filaments. I am concerned about the price. It’s $1200 versus $800 and I love the idea of longevity, maintainability and buying something of high quality and having it last for years longer so maybe reality is the right answer for me but, wow, that $400 difference just is really hard to justify going all the way up to that Creality K2.
What other differences should I consider in my decision?
Tim

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I recently purchased a Elegoo Neptune 4 Max to print large things. It came with a 0.4mm nozzle for some reason. My plan was to replace it with a 0.6mm or 0.8mm nozzle. As a test I kept the 0.4mm on. I scaled the object in Orca slicer and chose standard 0.2mm layer height. Orca said it would take 7 days to print. I added a second Elegoo Neptune 4 Max printer in Orca Slicer but this one with 0.6mm nozzle. I chose standard layer height again (0.2mm). I sliced the model and Orca said it would take 9 days. Weird. I selected extra draft layer height (0.28mm) and sliced it again. Still, 9 days. What am I missing here? I expect a bigger nozzle and larger layers to print faster. Is there a way to “download” updated profiles in Orca Slicer? Adam

Crazy idea: How feasible would adding pigment to the filament during printing be? The thought occurred to me while listening to you all discussing multi material systems. If you could just load spools of white or clear filament and then change pigment while printing, imagine the possibilities!
Thanks for the podcast!
Loren

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Hey guys! Long time listener, first time caller!
I recently took home an old(ish) Fusion3 F410. (Our department at work wanted to get rid of it.) We also have a Raise3d Pro3, BambuLab X1C and X1E, so this thing is a real pain to use in comparison. About the only good thing it has going for it is the big build volume (355x355x315), other than that there are a couple of annoyances:

• Glass build plate
• Auto bed-leveling is hit or miss. It only probes the 4 corners where aluminum tape is used for conductivity.
• Reaaally long Bowden tube setup
• Weird kevlar string used for the X-Y motion system.. but I guess it works.
• Old Duet2 board and RepRap software
• Discontinued by Fusion3
  I volunteered to take it home because I have some ideas! I want to see if I can breath new life into it with some mods:
• Magnetic PEI build plate
• Direct-drive extruder on the toolhead
• BigTreeTech control board and Klipper
  Do you guys have any suggestions on how to get the above mods done? I’m not too familiar with Voron printers, but I wonder how much I can pull from their large-format printers as far as parts, electronics used, etc. I can design/print custom part solutions if needed, and have access to sheet metal for the bed. I also have some experience with Klipper, and I think getting that properly configured will be an undertaking on its own.
  Thanks! Matt

Hi guys,I recently stumbled over your podcast and really like the bandwidth of topics you guys talk about! Currently I own 2x K1 Max but will soon replace 1 of them by a K2 Plus. You guys are talking a lot about creating your own configuration settings for materials and such.
I would really like to know how should someone approach this systematically. Let’s imagine I have Creality print 5.1 which is splitting all settings on one side to a Filament setting and on the other side to the different layer height configurations.
Lately I had a standard PLA – which caused problems – and ended up by changing the temperature in the Filament settings and the max speed in the layer height configuration. This solved the problem but I will never have just one setting to load for this material.
So now there are actually two questions:

• How to approach a perfect setting for a material (and height) systematically?
• Any tips and tricks for Creality Print 5.1 on how to manage multiple settings?
  Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
  Michael from Switzerland

Guy, JJ and Jerry just haviung a great discussion of what they’ve got going on and what new and coming in the 3D printer market.

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Last Spring I printed a simple 100mm cube with a centered 25mm circular hole out of black PLA using standard slicer settings (2 walls, 15% grid infill). I intentionally left it outside on a black metal surface all summer, where it was exposed to plenty of heat (over 100 degrees some days), rain, hail, etc. Today the part seems to be in essentially the same good condition as it was the day I printed it. Yet I seem to hear that a lot PLA is not suitable for outdoor use, that other materials such as PETG and various others should be used for anything other than indoor decorations.
What are your thoughts on the durability factors of common filaments, and is PLA getting a bad rap?Thank you!
Justin

Hey all. I’ve just gotten into 3d printing. I have the a1 mini and have been thoroughly enjoying it. I’m not really into exploring the tinkering aspect of 3d printing, but I’m curious: Just in terms of dollar cost, are there savings starting with a cheap tinkerers printer and then trying to upgrade to something like bambu level reliability? Loren

What is a common “mistake” you see in personally designed 3d models which make the prints less likely to succeed with good quality? How can a model be uniquely designed for 3d printing rather than traditional manufacturing methods?
Ben

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So I built my first V2.4 almost 2 and a half years ago and loved the machine and process so much that I had to have every printer in their Git repository (-legacy….should probably build it anyway)
My second v2.4 under went a complete mcu/motor and hardware upgrade(ceramic bearings,gates GT3 belts leviathan 48v board LDO super power 2.8a motors,two seperate psu and CNC motion parts by Vitalli….now the question

Do you think that there is a mounting focus on speed?
When is enough enough?
If you took a Voron from 2024 to 2012 and showed Adrian Boyer would he have said “wow,we’ve made it!”

All these upgrade to my machines and I still don’t push them past 200mm/8000k velocity/acceleration

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Guy (& Guys):
Love the podcast. thanks. listening to it now while gluing magnets into prints…
Hey, I’m a purple-can-aqua-net guy. I use more than a fifties housewife.
What solvent do you use/recommend to remove built up aqua net from build plates? I print maybe 50 times between soaking with 99% IPA which works but it’s slow and sticky. Wondering if you have a better solution (both definitions of the word).
Thanks:
JC