@mibzman Mostly temperature towers, honestly. I’ve been playing with PHA, so I printed temperature towers for two new colours of that, and also I subscribe to the protopasta “endless filament” programme (at 150g/month, supersized samples really but I like it) and those showed up so needed one for each of them.
I _really_ like the bottle colours they sent out this month, particularly the blue. Just gorgeous.
@fedops@mibzman PHA is _pretty interesting_. More heat tolerance even than HTPLAs, but definitely also more flexible at all temperatures, which can be a plus or a minus - it’s kind of like a less-flexible but more-durable nylon, I think? I haven’t worked with nylon but from descriptions.
It also really wants a 0.6mm nozzle, though I have found - and this is what I did for these temperature towers - that the non-wood-infill PHAs can be consistently successfully printed with a 0.5mm nozzle, if the model is sliced for 0.4mm.
Also: Sure! I’d expect the pictures to work on actual Mastodon. But they didn’t make it to Lemmy replies. Don’t know if Lemmy even supports pictures in replies locally tho xD
@fedops@mibzman If you want to grab this purchase-advice reddit post before the walkout for later reading (or come back to it on Thursday), it isn’t bad at all, even if OP’s hate-on for Creality is overwrought. (It’s also not completely insane, but.)
@moira thanks, yeah! My preferences align quite well with that, interesting. 😄
The Neptune and Sovol are high on the list, though I am strangely fascinated by Deltas (I partly blame @Tay0 for that) and Klipper so the V400 is at the top right now. Prusa would be a good choice also I’m sure, I know a couple ppl who have them and like them a lot. @mibzman
@mibzman Mostly temperature towers, honestly. I’ve been playing with PHA, so I printed temperature towers for two new colours of that, and also I subscribe to the protopasta “endless filament” programme (at 150g/month, supersized samples really but I like it) and those showed up so needed one for each of them.
I _really_ like the bottle colours they sent out this month, particularly the blue. Just gorgeous.
@mibzman (Hi from Mastodon! Replies work, yay! But the photos don’t show up. Dang. xD )
@moira I had never heard of PHA before, thanks for that. Are the print settings radically different from PLA? Thanks!
BTW, I can see your attached pictures just fine in Tusky on Mastodon. 👍
@mibzman
@fedops @mibzman PHA is _pretty interesting_. More heat tolerance even than HTPLAs, but definitely also more flexible at all temperatures, which can be a plus or a minus - it’s kind of like a less-flexible but more-durable nylon, I think? I haven’t worked with nylon but from descriptions.
It also really wants a 0.6mm nozzle, though I have found - and this is what I did for these temperature towers - that the non-wood-infill PHAs can be consistently successfully printed with a 0.5mm nozzle, if the model is sliced for 0.4mm.
Also: Sure! I’d expect the pictures to work on actual Mastodon. But they didn’t make it to Lemmy replies. Don’t know if Lemmy even supports pictures in replies locally tho xD
@moira very interesting, thank you! I’ll have to keep that in mind.
Still trying to decide on my first filament printer. So far I’ve only been printing small models in resin.
@mibzman
@fedops @mibzman If you want to grab this purchase-advice reddit post before the walkout for later reading (or come back to it on Thursday), it isn’t bad at all, even if OP’s hate-on for Creality is overwrought. (It’s also not completely insane, but.)
https://www.reddit.com/user/richie225/comments/rnillw/generic_fdm_printer_recommendations_2022/
@moira thanks, yeah! My preferences align quite well with that, interesting. 😄
The Neptune and Sovol are high on the list, though I am strangely fascinated by Deltas (I partly blame @Tay0 for that) and Klipper so the V400 is at the top right now. Prusa would be a good choice also I’m sure, I know a couple ppl who have them and like them a lot.
@mibzman
@fedops @mibzman Oh, it does! But ones from Mastodon don’t make it, alas. (Maybe because I posted two pictures? idk)
Possible. Still seems like magic to me I can follow this community also in Tusky through Mastodon. 😄
@mibzman Link to photos since the embeds didn’t make it over:
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/110526824459593703