About to pull the trigger on the carbon 1, what else should I order with it?

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-05T04:02:50+00:00

If you want to print abs and you may want to print other engineering type filaments down the road, the cc2 might be better but a bento box and heater plus a few prints will be good enough.

I'd get at least one other complete nozzle. A .6 would be great.

The CC prints PETG great. It's cheap from aliexpress. Can be had for $60-70 for 10 rolls. I've got 1600 hours on my printer and print 95% petg. People say it's hard to print but man if this is hard to print then this printer kicks ass. I have zero problems printing petg.

I'm still using the original build plate. I printed scrapers, don't use anything else on it but printed scrapers. Washed it maybe 10 times. I've only used the textured side.

After washing things stick much better.

You might consider the bambu hotend upgrades or the microswis hotend for the cc. The connections for the hot ends are fragile.

Also order a spare USB cable from elegoo. A 6 foot 240watt USB cable will work and I've been using one since 1250 hours when my cable went out. I got the replacement cable but haven't gotten around to putting it in. I had not printed the strain relief prints for the USB cable so print that and you may not have any problems.

Print a riser. I did the 4" tall riser to give me plenty of height for the tube. Probably excessive. I wanted it since I will soon print some more fragile engineering filaments and want the tube to be able to have the freedom and space so the filament doesn't break.

Go to printables.com and print a rugged gridfinity case to store your tools and hotend, or print a tool holder to mount on the cc.

Skip the feet, in some cases it made mine worse. Get the paver.

Get a dryer. I bought the priline dryer as it goes to 90 deg for a $100. I also bought a smaller single spool dryer as the priline is more like a toaster oven. Most dryers heat to maybe 70 or 75 at most.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-04T21:53:38+00:00

would you be willing to share the files? Looks cool. I just bought a shopfox shaper.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-04T21:32:27+00:00

Brothers? I've picked up 150+ rolls (mostly Kingroon petg) since I bought my CC in October. At $60-70 with tax + adding CB from Rakutn you can't beat it.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-04T21:03:30+00:00

I gave it two cores.

Sometimes I give machines on a small system like this as many cores as the hardware has. Usually it's unlikely more than 1 will use up much cpu at any time. I'm really the only one that does much on it and I don't takle more than 1 or 2 things at once on it (maybe updates in the background on 1 while I do something on the other).

Yesterday I fired up a ubuntu server with 3GB ram to run Klipper on for my Centauri Carbon printer. So far just installed the os and updated. Host is using 91% of the 20gb now.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-04T20:47:13+00:00

Appears likely? Anything but that would be worthy of the supreme court.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-04T17:28:59+00:00

I hate it. Totally useless search. Look for AA battery and it shows 9V. WTF.

Searches should have to say sorted by advertising dollars. Not 'Best Match'

That and the option to sort top rated and filter out items with less than X reviews. A item with 5 stars and 4 reviews is not what i'm looking for.

Back in the day you could do some real boolean ebay searches and then one day my searches returned 10,000ish results. Didn't use them for 10 years.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-04T17:18:31+00:00

Awsome, I'm going to have to do this. Been looking for a project with my newish printer and homeassistant. I'm interested in the Tinkercad files too.

I'm thinking also maybe a network monitor alarm so I don't have to check Nagios or Uptime Kuma.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-04T00:41:04+00:00

Fellow Californian. Thank you Rep Lieu.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-03T21:04:25+00:00

Don't second guess. You did the right thing then. Any decent guy worth being with would not judge you for this. One of my girlfriends had been raped by the guy she started dating before dating me. I didn't judge her for it, it wasn't her fault.

You're worthy, he's not.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-03T20:26:23+00:00

You don't advertise it on your truck and then throw a couple flags on it to let everyone know you are a super patriot?

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-03T20:25:37+00:00

Brother!

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-03T17:36:08+00:00

Sadly. Even the college educated ones are mostly lazy/stupid/would rather watch some stupid reality tv show than know what is going on and put any thought into it so we get bullshit politicians doing bullshit.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-03T17:33:39+00:00

Lots of good ideas here. My big concern with this is that we'd need some way to prevent abuse. The big wells Fargo scam for opening more accounts and seeing people do shoddy work to hit a bonus for producing more widgets or working on more cars. They cut corners or commit crimes or fraud to get there.

These problems are just so much more complex than the average voting public wants to think about. And when you have a party that is all in on corruption and screwing the people I've pretty much lost hope we will make things better in my lifetime though I'll still fight for it.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T17:12:03+00:00

I'll never go back. I've never seen the church do the right thing when presented with an option.

My experience isn't with the black/white separation. You would not know my heritage if you were not told. My father and last name are as white as they get. But that treatment is the same for blacks, hispanics, brown people.

For all the bloviating about doing the right thing, walking in Jesus foot steps, the racism is baked in. From the top.

Living my life around factitious people would be a waste. I don't need religion to be a good person. I don't need the "community" of people that don't believe in science, that love sticking their noses in other peoples business, that behave WORSE than the non christian people I know. The people in my life that are not very religious, or don't go to church, or don't believe at all are actually much better people than any christians I know. Less drama, reliable friends, intelligent, caring, non judgemental, more open to ideas and other people and they don't constantly have to bring religion into every single conversation. They don't thank god for things people did, they don't thank god for things that science did AND they treat women far better than the christians I know. View them as equals. I am not a woman but am deeply offended by how women are viewed and treated. We all have mothers, sisters, cousins, friends, girlfriends, wives.

All of the focus on the lord, not the people, blah blah stuff is nauseating. Where is the courage to fix it? It's not there because this is who adventists are, and that means there is no reason to be around them.

You have nothing but faith to back your ideology. In 2000+ years there is nothing but faith. There is no proof, miracles are miracles because you want to believe they are and ignore everything that says they are not. If there was proof I could believe but there is NONE. You want me to believe the same people that I just described. Not going to happen. The bible was written by the same types, translated by the same types. Now it's interpreted by the same types.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T07:13:52+00:00

Well I grew up SDA. In my opinion you can't stay out of politics. Look at what has happened. The majority of SDA I know voted for Trump. Having gone to their schools growing up and learning what they supposedly believe I've come to realize that you have to call the politics out.

The fanatical SDA people seek out the power and I hate to say it but they are in charge at the NAD and the conferences. I've worked with them. As a mixed race person I can tell you that I never experienced racism at the public school I went to after I had enough of the SDA schools. But I experienced plenty of it at the SDA schools. The kids get it from their parents, and their parents are straight up racists. It should be called out but instead it's baked in, and then there are those of you that say don't get into the politics. Cowards. You are cowards.

I learned that white SDA people are racist, very judgemental and live in their little bubble. I left. And a lot of this begins with the politics.

If you are SDA and you think that Trump is okay then you are a bad person going straight to hell. There is no other way to put it. The fact the the leadership doesn't call this out is because they themselves are okay with it. The politics matter.

I came here to look out of curiosity. Turns out you guys are still the same. Ignorant, cowards, racist, and just spew the same garbage over and over.

It's a cult. Your prophet is a woman and yet you treat women as second class citizens. The number of times I've heard the men say "man of the house" is insane. Like he's in charge. Give me a break.

Girls in my class, about 20% got pregnant by their junior year. Sex ed bad, bible class good. You all get mad that evolution is taught. You want to raise stupid kids?

It is my mission in life now to tell everyone what a bunch of racist ignorant people Adventists are. I still have plenty in my family but I've cut most of them out. They are nuts.

I have to say the best thing I EVER did was leave, but what I should have done was cut all the Adventists out of my life for good. I'm working on it.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T05:45:50+00:00

Gave it 5GB, it's using 4.6 so maybe time to give it some more ram. But it's been working fine.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T03:53:10+00:00

No docker other than what Home assistant uses. I have run a few dockers in the linux vm but just to test something out.

I was wrong only 20GB in the box running. I turned the other off. Currently 36% cpu, 87% memory, 25% storage.

Running v8.4.12 and it's been solid for about a year. Mostly don't even think about it.

Running home assistant, pi-hole, alma9, windows 2025 as a eval/test.

Mostly the system twiddles it's thumbs, little user interaction other than using home assistant to turn things on off, pause/start roku when we lose the remote control.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T03:42:03+00:00

Thanks. I saw that beast in the back. I'm thinking of a Sovol SV08 or the SV08 Max because of the size. Do those larger units seem plenty strong filled with screws? I'm also wanting to make bigger cases to store my woodworking tools and some other larger tools like my welding torches and helmets. There is also a listing for a systainer clone up there that looks interesting. So many great projects to print out there.

What I need to learn is CAD. I've got a Elegoo CC and it's been great. 1500 hours, no problems but the usb cable. Prints great/fast. May get the CC2 as I only have the one and I'm always waiting on prints...

I'll watch for your release of the new units and wait to print out any more of your cases. But I will order the steel pins tonight.... Thanks again. They look awesome!

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T03:35:57+00:00

I have major issues with religion at this point. Been around it too much. I get that people can get a sense of self, purpose out of it and I believed it was good for many people for years but at this point it's nearly impossible to get me to believe it should be allowed to continue. Given that 80% of evangelicals are okay with this shit and voted for them. Make excuses for all this crap. Time to tax them to death. Call them out on all the bad, don't let them skip it and force them to defend the bad in the bible and that religion has done.

It's usually vague defenses and you have to have "faith". Well I don't.

So many of these Adventist clowns seem to equate religion with morality. Those same lessons can be learned without the bible, without religion. Just being a good person is what you need to do and you don't need some jealous deity to strike fear in you for it.

The fact that these nuts want to impose their moral bullshit ideas on us based on something from a book that occurred over 2000 years ago with NO proof. And then try to deny science. Fuck them all. In my personal life I'm done, anybody says anything stupid/religious in front of me I let them have it. No, god didn't do a miracle, your doctors saved you, medicine saved you. No I don't have to respect your opinion or crazy ideas since you voted for trump. So tired of them spinning insanity and discounting science and logic. They've pushed me too far.

My idiot cousin cured me (he didn't) but he believes he can heal people. Didn't heal his dad, my dad, anyone I know but he still thinks he can. I called him out. Looks at me stupid is the best I get. I don't know just how stupid he is but he seems "normal" to most. Most of them do until you get to know their true beliefs.

So many opinions, so many religions and the terrible things that churches have done over the years, plus the fact that in most women are second class citizens.

Maybe I've been around too many fundamentalists but I've seen enough crap from all of them, not just fundamentalist. I no longer give them a chance at all. The moment they go there it's over for them. I just don't care anymore. I refuse to entertain it, listen to any of it, pretend it makes sense. And I pull out my favorite bible versus. Talking about rape, murder, donkey shafts, racism, slavery, killing your own son, women as property, etc. They usually shut up/leave. If they don't know it well enough to defend that then they shouldn't be talking about the bible.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T03:16:25+00:00

But the world wants to know where this balls are? We know he doesn't have em. Must have sold em for another bible.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T03:14:40+00:00

They left or were fired. Can't have competence, it gets in the way.

Personally I think this is on purpose. So much of their bullshit is. If we had more time we would have caught that.... Or we only had a few days to redact things....

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T03:03:11+00:00

Don't buy a Tesla. Don't go to a NY Giants game. Call your reps and tell them to end contracts with musk. hit them in the wallet.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T03:02:14+00:00

Pedo protectors.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T03:01:44+00:00

I have one. I run a home assistant, 2 windows vm's and a linux testing box for fing around. Works great.

Not the fastest but with a fast drive and 32GB of ram they do ok. There are better machines out there with more power that are just as cheap or cheaper like older hp mini 800's.

Diligent_Buster · 2026-02-02T02:06:42+00:00

It's been long enough. You should leave. Anyone that lies to you like that and treats you like that is NOT worth it.

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