3D Printer General Chat

Too cheap and easy to buy filament at so many other places now. Locally and online of course.

 

that's the problem with fast change rainbow. the only other places I can find it cost substantially more.

 

Bondtech INDX has been delayed by at least a couple of months.

Not surprising and I want them to polish it before releasing so I'll be waiting patiently to see more in the future.

 

Jeez they had some sexy filaments!

 

Yeah I loved their Uluru Sunset

 

not surprised 3dfillies is gone tbh, I've seen some of the costs behind the scenes and it's pretty grim. All about how much volume you can churn more than anything and the guys just running stuff out of a garage or small warehouse can't keep up with the bigger outfits.

 

Being able to get stuff from ebay or aliexpress cheaper and in higher volume with the same shipping times makes it incredibly challenging unless you have a customer base that really likes to see things in person before buying.

If you're printing as a hobbyist you're probably getting it from jaycar or amazon, if you're printing as part of a business operation every dollar cheaper counts if you're ripping through 100 rolls a month saving $5 on each of them adds up real real fast.

 

And here I am trying to get the guys at work to stop using the stratasys filaments at $750 a kilo.

'oh we had trouble with the X1E layer adhesion'

 

how do you even have issues with X1E layer adhesion, with a basic PVA glue stick i've applied a total of twice on my P1S I haven't had an adhesion issue in months, and I don't even wipe dust off my print bed when I barely use it

 

No idea! This was 3rd hand info my the time it got to me.

Didn't help that the guy that bought it, whom I helped set it all up, got made redundant, and the other guy in that department has suddenly been dumped with a lot of extra work

 

Might have not cleaned the plate properly? Even if it's brand new, there might be some oils/dust from storage or from the packaging.

 

Made a start on the filament swatches.
Took a while to get the Brother label printer printing the correct size label, not supported by the filament web app.
If nothing else, it's a good opportunity to sort out the filament stash


and of course some gridfinity to store them

 

Got panda lux lights for the P1S and a1 on aliexpress, holy hell I can see inside the P1S with the door shut now

 

finally got around to trying sunlu PLA+ I might switch to it and ditch creality's hyper PLA.

filaments to keep:

• Sunlu PLA+
• Elegoo PLA+
• ESun PLA+
• ESun PLA+HS

 

I just did it with a touch light strip lol...think it was $5 off ali

 

I spent $10 on the P1S light and $8 on the a1 light, and they are integrated into the printer controls

 

Oh ok that's decent

Link?

 

Got the panda lux for the X1C and I can now see stuff on the camera! (got a spare if anyone wants it)

 

The poor cameras with these 3D printers, starving for light. Though the K2 Plus' camera is not bad, the LED upgrade/mod does make it so much even and easier to see (and spot) any issues that may come up.

 

P1S camera is the biggest fkin potato lol