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chaos_engineer said:
You will be excited to learn I'm picking up a monoprice voxel tomorrow from a friend who upgraded to a Bambu A1,

Free.99! Works fine, he just wanted a bigger plate printer that wasn't as finicky.
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Welcome to the mad world of 3D printing. The best advice I can give is set a finite time per day for playing with the printer, otherwise if you have a partner now you might not have them after a few weeks :lol:

Its addictive!
 
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Redbrickman said:
Welcome to the mad world of 3D printing. The best advice I can give is set a finite time per day for playing with the printer, otherwise if you have a partner now you might not have them after a few weeks :lol:

Its addictive!
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Oh I've been printing for a bit. This is just my first FDM machine. My existing setup is resin SLA, so now I will get to explore the joys of jammed nozzles, funky extruder heads, and all that jazz.

Which reminds me. Anyone have favorite filament brands? I ordered some elegoo to play with while I learned. Their resin is pretty good so I'm hoping that translates to filament as well.
 
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Stringy on the fine detail at this scale. Bed was 55c nozzle was 221c. Both within spec for the PLA. However, I"'m taking it as a successful learning lesson.

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I had some stuff queued up to run once I got access to an FDM, so I'm knocking them out in rapid succession. Did 3 of these little bud vases yesterday to go with the roses I printed last month. Image is shot in front of a mirror to show the color variation in the PLA. The odd-looking "parting line" at the shoulder is some kind of defect in the first one I ran. It's all one piece and the other 2 don't show it.

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Up today is a "slip over" cover for the pod camera/microphone combo that lives on my desk for work.
 
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Before/after. This camera has a habit of resetting the USB connection and re-enbabling itself. So, I have it a little hat.

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Or maybe someone/some other connection from outside is enabling it :eek:
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I think it was my garbage lenovo laptop. I needed to have it re-imaged for Windows 11 a couple of weeks ago and pulled some strings to just get a new one instead. Hasn't happened since.
 
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