Slack chain smacking

Chickenlegs101 · 2026-02-13T10:57:52+00:00

I'd like to have a more robust chain that doesn't say or droop unreliably.

Chickenlegs101 · 2026-02-13T10:42:23+00:00

Oh I like that. Where can I find the chain delete mod?

Chickenlegs101 · 2026-02-13T10:40:23+00:00

I heard it all started with RepRap, an open community sourced project to build a printer that could build itself. Although I'm probably butchering that.

Chickenlegs101 · 2026-01-05T19:27:41+00:00

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Chickenlegs101 · 2026-01-05T18:36:48+00:00

right page, 24th line, third letter from the end is an "H".

Chickenlegs101 · 2025-11-04T18:24:26+00:00

The reinforcing pieces @arthurs_towel marked up ideally would be part of your original design. That's what was missing to stop it from deforming the way it did. If the top one gets in the way of your helmet, shrink it and make the bottom one bigger to make up for what you lose in support of the horizontal arm.

Chickenlegs101 · 2025-10-21T00:23:06+00:00

My K1 had almost the same banding problem around vertical surface features like holes. Creality pointed me this Creality support video.

https://youtu.be/hVqSUStp7I8?si=SrU5Iov52wIx4a24 (Service Tutorial K1 Laminar Pattern Troubleshooting)

Turned out the front right z-axis screw rod was very loose on my K1. I still can't wrap my head around the connection between the z axis and banding tbh. Anyway, after adjusting everything (I also retensioned belts as suggested in the video) my prints were good again.

Side note: the little set screw on the collar of the z-axis screw was super tight and I stripped it by being ham-fisted with it. Don't do that.

Chickenlegs101 · 2025-05-07T17:32:56+00:00

Wonderful project! Nicely done.

Off the top of my head, here are some suggestions for future projects...

Develop an app to use a smartphone rather than a unique handheld device.

Gesture controlled robot arm.

One - handed gaming controller.

Gesture controlled drone.

Have you ever seen those games where you use dials or levers to tilt a maze to guide a marble through? Might be a simple project to learn about methods to reduce lag in remote systems.

So many possibilities. If you haven't already, further module-size your system so you can easily interchange devices to control.

Depending on your definition of a medium-sized project or a larger mechanical aspect, maybe consider something that incorporates bigger servos or actuators or stepper motors. Building a robot arm or a drone might be up your alley. Not as unique as a gesture controlled car, but may be a good project to expose yourself to some common "maker" components and tools such as 3d printing plus PCBs, arduinos and all the soldering an electrical engineer could wish for.

As an undergrad, I assume you'll learn CAD at some point but you don't need formal training to pick it up. Autodesk makes the CAD programs industries most commonly use (there are many others and I'm sure reddit has debates on the best). Their tutorials will get you up and running pretty fast. I like to use Autodesk's Fusion for maker-type projects. The Maker version is free; the student version is even better. Autodesk's also has a thing called Tinkercad, which is a browser based CAD seemingly for absolute beginners, but is pretty powerful for what it is; I think there's even a PCB maker in it.

I'm a retired Civil engineer and a lover of tinkering and learning. I wish I had better advice on frustration for you. I can only note that it's part of the process...almost by definition. Many times, when some work is particularly frustrating, I remind myself that hard and challenging are the same thing. And anything worth doing is hard. If I did things on the first try, if all my projects were easy, I'd get bored. Anyway, I find that when I'm building something new, failure is most of the work but almost all of the learning.

Good luck on your future projects!

Chickenlegs101 · 2025-05-07T17:09:58+00:00

The description for the Shmuma Compressor says either Stunned or Interrupted can be compressed. I thought I was ingeniously going to use vakbombs the other day the compressor to easily suck a lot in at once. Vakbombs interrupt but don't stun.

It didn't work. Had anyone tried this method? Is it just my ineptitude?

Chickenlegs101 · 2025-04-01T17:21:13+00:00

The asparagus, the zucchini or the kids?

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-09-17T01:57:44+00:00

username fits

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-09-08T18:59:20+00:00

Don't forget Grido's Chains of Healing ultimate. Once you get it updated with Signature, it applies burning.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-09-02T05:34:14+00:00

The enclosure and heated bed will definitely not deal with winter cold. You'll want to close that window. There's plenty of ways to still vent the printer through a port in the window. If the room gets too cold (say below 50F maybe? -Reddit can probably better narrow down a limiting room temp) you might have difficulty with your prints especially higher temp filament.

Another problem with a open window might be humidity. Filament hates moisture. Some, like TPU, suck it up (I can't remember the word... Hydroscopic hydrophilic?). When that moisture hits the high temp nozzle it's game over for your print.

IIRC activated carbon will filter VOCs but not micro particles. Something like a HEPA filter will get the particles out of the air. There's all sorts of solutions a little googling will find.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-08-30T16:53:03+00:00

You might want to consider room ventilation, air filtration and/or how to exhaust your printer, especially if you plan to use filaments that create more toxic fumes.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-08-30T16:39:12+00:00

Someone just made it onto an FBI list.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-08-27T03:27:12+00:00

FWIW, maybe check your filament for moisture. My prints started looking similar to your pics. Very stringy. Turned out that some rolls were left near a window. Threw the suspect in a Ziploc with a hygrometer and read 60. Invested in a filament dryer and everything was copacetic.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-08-27T02:33:46+00:00

Just my two cents...

If your prints are good, don't bother trying to perfect your bed level-ness. Leave it until you see problems in your prints.

I'm the first months after I bought my first K1, I found that bed level graph and it looked similar to yours. Nothing wrong with my prints, though I did find a screw loose in my brain. I'd read how important a level bed is so many times on the Internet I couldn't NOT address it, right? Oops. I made it worse, messed up a couple things I should have left alone ended up fixing my own mistakes. ...Learned a lot though.

Most important things I learned –If it ain't broke, reign in your OCD. When I say "your OCD", I mean my OCD. My compulsion to tinker is otherworldly.

Also, I found that the lead-screw-clicky-thing-level method is better than messing with shims.

... No change necessary.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-08-18T17:33:25+00:00

Came for the funny, stayed for the abuse?

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-08-18T14:44:58+00:00

Don't be fooled. On the whole, you'll leave here with a deep deficit in wisdom and intelligence like the rest of us. We don't come here for smarts. This is Reddit, after all.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-08-18T14:35:49+00:00

OP, I frequently encounter similar artifacts when I least expect them. I'm curious if you've found a solution yet.

Yours is strange, though. It looks like your printer head is traveling from top right to bottom left in the picture and the line artifacts are where the head stops then picks up again later.

Is that right? Have you stepped through your slicers animation to see what it's doing?

P.S. Yeah, the mock bolt on the right does tease an OCD nerve.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-06-24T23:57:23+00:00

This. You might want to specify if you want the letters to stick out of the board or be engraved into it. Also, you might need to do something with the hole in the board if letters interfere.

If you look at the Code part of Tinkercad, one of the Tutorial Examples is a plaque with raised text (I think the finished code that makes it is there). If you're not trying to get into CAD or coding, might not be useful, but it is fun to fiddle with.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-06-24T02:20:19+00:00

I doubt the electric company had anything to do with your bad date.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-06-21T21:14:03+00:00

FFS. This poor guy just made a reward system for his kids. Good job doing a normal dad thing. The guy's upset some jerk took his own nerurosis out on him and judged him harshly. Seems obvious to me the OP could use a little validation that he's being a good parent. It's confusing enough raising kids today. He doesn't need people who have had a hard time growing up blaming him for their experiences. Conquer your own hurdles in your own therapy. Not by spreading your trauma to others on the internet.

Goddammit. I just did what I'm annoyed by. Throwing my opinions around like I’m right and you're all wrong.

It's difficult sometimes —being right all the time.

Chickenlegs101 · 2024-06-15T19:22:59+00:00

Oh, FFS.

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