• Speedy

    Speedy

    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…

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  • Duallies

    Duallies

    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…

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  • The Real Story of SMJ1

    The Real Story of SMJ1

    The Snapmaker J1 is not a perfect IDEX 3D printer, but it is a very good one. That’s my personal opinion. Online and FaceBook user forums are available and have a lot of interesting threads (stories) of user experience. But forums are not a good place to seek service or repairs when something goes wrong.…

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  • The Quantum Domain

    The Quantum Domain

    The smallest common denominator when reducing anything to the basic truth, resides in the Quantum Domain. Where nothing is as simple as it seems. It’s why I can blame Quantum Mechanics when something goes wrong with one of my three dimensional prints. I know I probably overlooked a higher dimension. My reality becomes entangled. I…

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  • Bongos

    Bongos

    Hear the beat of the drums. Bongo drums. I wonder if it is a bongo drum or because there are two it should be plural? I think its a Bongo drum because the male and female (That’s what they are called) drums are joined as one and sometimes just called Bongos. If I made two…

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  • Speed VS Quality

    Speed VS Quality

    I recently ran a small test with one of my Cetus printers. Speed against quality. No doubt (again) that high speed and best quality do not hold hands.  I am saying “best” quality. High speed and “acceptable” are friends, they get no where close to “best” quality. Printing FDM at high speeds is much improved…

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  • Another Dimension?

    Another Dimension?

    I have been doing a lot of thinking about plastic material three dimensional printing. How three dimensional printing compares to true craft work with conventional tools and materials. Primarily when the entire item created is 3D printed. The frustration I feel is from my feelings about the low intrinsic value of the item produced totally…

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  • OMC works on UPS3

    OMC works on UPS3

    For some reason of which I am yet to discover, My Tiertime UP Studio V2 threw some error messages at me that went away before I could comprehend what they were saying. Something about registration of/or something.  I have been using the program for over 5 years so I haven’t a clue what that was…

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  • Why 0.40mm?

    Why 0.40mm?

    Quantum mechanics makes me look at things in new ways. A recent browse through current topics on 3D printing revealed some pundits are questioning how in FDM printers, did 0.40mm nozzle become so dominate with the 1.75mm filament. I am not going to explore the reasons here. Best to say, for the typical size prints…

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