Just digging back thru various makes
Did this for Christmas
Tweaked the model a bit to adjust hole tolerance and fit. So I can take it back apart for storage
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Has anyone printed something like an Ironman suit or Fallout Power Armor? I want to start building the skills to make something along those lines and wanted to hear some advice.
In other news, when you start pushing an Ender 3 with an upgraded extruder and ask for advice, you get told to run it slow and wait… 
Apparently upgrading the extruder, installing a CHT nozzle, enabling input shaping and pushing the printer as fast as you can while getting nice prints is beyond what most people do.
Anyways, I’m debating if I should install the CHT nozzle on my crapy creality high flow hotend. The CHT on the MK8 is better than the high flow hotend with a standard brass nozzle.
It’s probably a good way to decrease the pressure advance setting but I’m hesitant as that hotend has given me enough headaches in the past.
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I’d love fallout stuff to print
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I’m primarily thinking about mecha cosplay, but the Fallout stuff is tempting.
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Nope,
I’ve only printed a morning star… that’s the closest I’ve gotten to cosplay… except that this is legitimately dangerous…
…I maaaaay have gotten carried around and accidentally made the spikes genuinely sharp 
I do want some cool robot gloves and embed some tech into them
Imagine something like an arm gauntlet, embed a flash drive inside it, and rig up either a usb c port or a retractable cable…. 
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Same, a resonant repeater is the first thing that comes to mind. Now, get out of my head! How did you get access to Amal’s dials!?
I think that I’ve got a clogged CHT nozzle, any advice on how to clean out one of these?
It’s a genuine one so a cold pull is supposed to work, however I’m not having any luck with this.
I have a spare but I’d like to clean it as these are not as cheap and easy to get as regular nozzles.
I never had a cold pull works …
find a metal rod the same diameter of the wire, heat the nozzle as high as you can and push the metal rod from the top to force all the crap out the nozzle.
I think they make them with handles on them now.
edit:
like this:
I’ve been able to get successful cold pulls out of standard nozzles but never out of a CHT.
Anyways, I just dug out two pneumatic fitting teeth out of the heatbreak. Needless to say that I replaced the fitting on the top of the hotend… Hope this fixes it.
Not sure how that’s supposed to work when you have one of these in your printer:
the whole point of it is to create pressure ahead of the nozzle, the rod doesnt go all the way into the nozzle.
its not perfect, but it what I’ve had the more success with.
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What we’ve done in the past with truly useless nozzles is remove it from the printer, take it outside on concrete, and hit it with a map gas torch for a good 30 seconds or so. Only recommend this as a last resort. It sorta works, but the nozzle doesn’t love those temps for that long
I took mine off and droped it in acetone for a couple days. I was just making things up but it worked.
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I’ve kinda avoided cht nozzles for this reason… super cool idea but idk if it’s worth it for me as I don’t like to print as wicked speeds….
Bambu standard is already faster than my brain defaults to… but damn if it doesn’t look good
Well, the problem was caused by a piece of metal that made it’s way into the heatbreak. So it wasn’t the nozzle at the end of the day.
In any case, I would like to thank you all for actualy being helpful and not berating me for pushing an Ender 3 to 18mm^3/s.
“You should go slower, here’s a long explanation on how I misunderstand the difference between sine and square waves why I think that you should take into account the square root of two for square waves, I have an engineering degree but I don’t know what an inductor is” can’t fix a problem caused by a chunk of metal in the heatbreak. Normal humans…
With that out of the way, here’s something worth printing:
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I don’t think this forum does much berating besides the tinfoil visitations
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I think hackers are more inclined to encourage rather than discourage pushing beyond its limit…
I love to see what they can do… Enders are impressive machines… it’s just hard considering what new stuff can do sometimes
…that being said there IS a conversation at some point of “yea….but it’s still an ender… is the effort worth it at some point” lol
I loved the shit out of mine, but once I upgraded I can’t bring myself to even bring it out of the closet lol
I’m glad I didn’t pick up the pallet system back when that was a thing and waited for the AMS system
Maybe I’ll turn the ender into a plotter or something 
I’ve considered maybe donating it or something to someone… but that feels like handing down a used car that’s held together by zip ties
I say this not in a gate keeper way, but everyone should start off on something like and ender… they need some time in the trenches lol,
But now I would go back kicking and screaming lol
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Definitely! Glad to be a part of this population even when I’ve never worked in infosec.
I’m pushing mine as fast as I can while getting good and reliable prints. And it now takes me half the time to get my parts done. I’d say that I managed to squeeze about 80% of the performance of Bambu without an AMS out of the Ender.
I agree, you learn a lot on something like a basic Ender 3 if you pay attention. Although at times I would’ve preferred a nicer machine, maybe there are better options for beginners now that still provide plenty of learning opportunities?
There are still plenty of myths about 3D printing that require debunking and many people still miss. Many people miss that belt tension affects the dimensional accuracy of the printer, that belts are not as accurate as you’d expect, that the hotend that you use makes a huge difference when printing ABS, and don’t get me started on the people applying the wrong formula to a square wave while talking about the RMS current… I guess that I should start writing, making videos, or something.
That’s where I’m at with mine TBH, and living in south america makes me think twice about dealing with international shipping and forwarding services when it comes to other printers. I’ll probably get a Sovol SV08 at some point.
Well … I’m thinking of converting mine to wire edm 
Might spend a few times more doing that than I put into it …
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Admit it, we’ve all thought about doing this particular conversion:
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