Tag: filament
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3d Printing Tuning
I am thinking it may be time to re-tune the basic extrusion details within my printer. Although the printing is running well, and very reliably, I have been having challenges with filament tracking and estimates. Using the FilamentManager Plugin for Octoprint, I can enter a spool of 1000 grams, but according to the numbers, I…
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Filament Choices
As I have been getting further and further into 3d printing, I have been experimenting with a number of different colors and brands of filament. In general, I have not found much significant different in quality for PLA between options, but for consistency, I have been tending towards the same ones each time. If curious,…
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Printing and more printing
Finished up a second batch of tiles on the printer while I was out of town this week, then upgraded the little Raspberry Pi computer that manages the printer itself. Now I should have sufficient space to at least do a timelapse of future prints, and potentially even stream live to YouTube. Still a bit…