Category: Hardware

  • Creality K1C

    Creality K1C

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    Added a new printer to my collection. The Creality K1C. The “C” stands for Carbon. It’s a part of the K1 series. Here is the link to the website for the full product information. K1C Link  I don’t have a desire to repeat here what is readily available form the manufacturer. <grin> The K1C is…

  • Improved CETUS2

    Improved CETUS2

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    A lot of quirky events have been occurring with my 3D printing. Definitely tied to the “Quantum Effect”. My machines have been complaining about their workload as only machines know how. They start breaking down.  I wore out the bearings in the filament feed drives for the CETUS2. Probably a thousand hours on them. About…

  • New Resin Printer

    New Resin Printer

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    The resin [sic] I do this hobby is I like to design from scratch and then use 3D printing as the proof of design. I deliberately chose the word resin (line above) because that is one of the materials I use with 3D printing. I just ordered a new resin type printer. The Anycubic Photon…

  • Tech Talk

    Tech Talk

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    There is a side to the 3D printing “hobby” to which I have not paid much attention. It does not focus on printed item design at all. Printed product design is a totally different side of the hobby.

  • Cetus 2.2

    Cetus 2.2

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    Tiertime labels it just a CETUS2. It’s a two filament single nozzle FDM printer. Tiertime sent me a used prototype Cetus2 a year ago. I won it in a contest for writing a New Year’s Resolution. I also had an expectation of still receiving a first edition release version as I had invested in the…

  • Is Bigger Better

    Is Bigger Better

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    I installed a set of 0.60mm extruders on my Snapmaker J1s. I have probably run at least 100 prints with these nozzles.  My goal has been to design larger print projects that will take advantage of the thicker and wider layers possible with the 0.6mm nozzle size. Print times are faster. The layering visibility is…

  • Recomended

    Recomended

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    I really have a workhorse 3D printer in my Snapmaker J1s. It’s an independent dual extruder FDM printer with a build area of 210x324x200 mm. Extruder temp range is up to 300 C and the bed is good to 100 C. That provides the ability to print a wide range of materials. As you can…

  • Speedy

    Speedy

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    Print Speeds There is a marketing war with 3D FDM printer makers of who can advertise the fastest printing machine.  Within the last year, the brag print speed has moved from 100 mm/s, to 300mm/s, and now to 600 mm/s. Acceleration has leaped from 1,000 mm/s^2 to 20,000 mm/s^2 There are practical and physical limits…

  • Duallies

    Duallies

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    Been cranking hard printing on my two newest 2 filament printers. The Snapmaker J1 and the Cetus2. Best of both flavors, IDEX and single nozzle. Neither, do I consider perfect a printer. Once I learned their individual weaknesses and work with their strengths, it has been all production and fun. Use them properly and 2…