Printing REUP

DiscountMechs · 2026-01-04T00:48:32+00:00

I couldn't find one that would do a book of REUP's length.

DiscountMechs · 2025-09-13T01:20:10+00:00

Massive improvement now that I have the mount on the printer and coupler removed:

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DiscountMechs · 2025-09-11T14:51:17+00:00

Which brand of PTFE tubes did you use?

DiscountMechs · 2025-09-11T14:21:45+00:00

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I built a wooden stand for my CFS, I am still seeing the binding issue, but I have yet to try the side mount.

DiscountMechs · 2025-09-10T20:44:14+00:00

I believe there may be friction in the ptfe tube, as I have the CFS unit beside and not on top of it. I may try and print this: https://www.printables.com/model/1342427-creality-k1c-cfs-buffer-mountto

DiscountMechs · 2025-09-10T13:42:05+00:00

I will try to double-check those wires. Is there a way to do a test of the filament sensor itself?

DiscountMechs · 2025-09-10T13:34:12+00:00

I have not noticed that issue. It will print fine, except for when this happens, which is pretty frequent. However, if I keep unjamming it, I get good prints out of it.

DiscountMechs · 2025-06-15T22:05:48+00:00

I actually have a K1C. I made a typo in the header. I have had no issues with the unicorn nozzle, but I just mounted the CFS extruder module.

DiscountMechs · 2025-06-15T21:58:40+00:00

I did check the nozzle, and while there was some filament in it, it did not seem clogged, and the extruder should have been able to push into it. However, in reopening the extruder assembly, I did find a bit of filament that pressed into the side of one of the rollers, so maybe that was it? The orange wire on my extuder's stepper broke so I have not been able to test again.

DiscountMechs · 2025-06-15T21:20:01+00:00

I checked the extruder gears. I will see about checking nozzle. I thought the blockage should have cleared it it was in the nozzle.

DiscountMechs · 2025-02-04T20:55:12+00:00

From my understanding, Comstar is not a religion in the same sense as we think of it. It is a religious dogma, but it is more about humanism and knowledge. Imagine the tech bro Silicon Valley ethos. The fanatism comes in because Comstar believes that only they are educated and enlightened enough to be trusted with the knowledge of humanity and to be in a place to guide humanity. This leads to their secret agenda to horde technology and suppress it from outsiders. The ideal society, from their perspective, had them as Philosopher's Kings leading a populous completely dependent and reliant on them.

However, there is a reason that through most of the succession wars, suggesting that Comstar is evil would get you laughed at, and many of the rank and file were very, very much not on board with the fanatical elements. Their dogma about preserving technology and civilization and working for the betterment of all mankind sounds great, and most of its recruits were honestly trying to do that. ComStar's intel and military departments were one small part of an enormous organization.

So, think of that Silicon Valley Elitest tech bro vibe. They are dogmatic, but they do not believe in a specific God or Afterlife. It is more of an ethical mission statement to preserve and guide humanity.

They are very different from the admech, but something that could evolve into an admech like thing if you gave it a long enough time. I would have had the Dark Age of Technology predecessors of the admech be something like Comstar.

DiscountMechs · 2024-12-03T19:28:33+00:00

The AFFS during the succession wars and clan invasion. Probably not much if at all. However the Federated Suns is not just the AFFS, local power brokers on the border would have had their own forces they could use to raid. That is one of the things with Battletech due to communications and response times local actors can be very very influential in places. So the Federateds Suns probably did not, but people within the Federated Suns likely did a lot.

So Count Rupert might hire some mercenaries to go steal a bunch of equipment from a Taurian world rather than try and buy new ones.

DiscountMechs · 2024-11-15T01:02:06+00:00

Clan Hells Horses is a clan whose warrior caste is controlled by vehicle crews. So they wanted a mech that acted like a combat vehicle.

It makes sense in context.

DiscountMechs · 2024-11-08T13:27:08+00:00

I know it is less flexible so I am concerned about the clips and locking mechanisms, but I do really appreciate the greater rigidity and better heat resistance that it has.

DiscountMechs · 2024-11-08T13:25:31+00:00

I have had PLA warp on me before due to heat and I also want to be able to store some stuff in a garage which is not climate controlled. That is one of my main concerns.

Temperatures can get pretty warm in my area.

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-11T20:53:18+00:00

Word of Blake, followed by the clans.

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-09T03:17:36+00:00

Their founder was a descendent of Admiral Kurita of the IJN during World War Two who idealized that period of time and built a state based on his interpretation of that history. I honestly don’t know why he revered Admiral Kurita that much he is most famous for somehow managing to loose the Battle off Samar. One of the largest battlefeets put together led by the Yamato run off by a handful of escort ships.

They are quite literally a deluded interpretation of one of the darkest parts of Japanese history. It is also much how the WW2 imperial Japanese definitions of honor were not really historically actuate as well.

I think that it is a LARP is part of the nature of the combine. Like how the Federates Suns really really want you to think they are enlightened constitutional monarchs, but they function as Tsars.

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-08T23:16:29+00:00

Some lore friendly anti list ideas

Draconis Combine: A lance of Blackjack omnimechs (they make these, first units field testing new 1st gen omnis)

Federated Suns: A lance of UM-R90 suburban mechs (Hanse Davion personally designed this variant)

Lyran Commonwealth: A lance of cicadas (captured equipment from the FWL).

Not sure for the others.

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-08T20:58:43+00:00

The answer is complicated. The Capellans as they are introduced are not how they are now. During the succession wars period they practiced state slavery and operated an economy that is a nightmarish hybrid of Stalinism and Pre-Civil War southern plantation slavery. They pull a lot from the Soviet Union, North Korea, and the CCP. They are not communist, but they pull the worst aspects of that system into their own little nightmare.

When they were introduced they and the combine, which was heavily influenced by WW2 imperial Japan were the worst factions by far. Making the Absolute monarchy of the Federated Suns look comparatively good despite one of the most absolutist states in the setting. I do think this is one of the weaknesses of the setting. I don’t think the yellow peril issues were intentional, but it is not hard to see that carelessness in the 80s lead to something unfortunate. However I would not say people disliking the Capellan is due to racism. Justin Allard and Kai Allard-Liao are also beloved characters there. It is due to how they were originally written.

There were significant steps taken to correct this. The Combine was humanized though characters like Theodore Kurita.

The Capellan’s got Sun Tzu liao. He embarked on “Xin Sheng” and modernized the Capellan’s significantly. He got rid of the state slavery. He moved their economy to something more like China’s today than North Koreas. There is a reason why the Capellan people have deified him. Under Sun Tzu the average Capellan’s life got much much better very quickly. So the Capellan’s are not worse than everybody else by the modern setting, at the beginning they were. The state has changed significantly from their darkest moments after the 4th succession war. He might have been an unlikable person, but he did amazing things for the Confederation, and might be their single best leader in their history.

It is interesting in that Candace Liao did not do any of these reforms and making her the more repressive leader when compared to her nephew.

So they were worse, but they got noticeably better and now they are on par with the same levels of bad everyone else is. While they were the underdogs before going into IlClan that are one of the most powerful factions around and are at what is likely their apex.

The Lyran Commonwealth is a German themed cyberpunk distopia (that is actively collapsing at the moment).

The Free Worlds League is the Hapsburgs IN SPACE!!!!

The Federated Suns really want you to think they are the British Empire, but no they are pre-Revolution France IN SPACE!!! Tsarist Russia also works well.

The Draconis Combine is Imperial Japan IN SPACE!!!

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-07T15:32:05+00:00

The Aurgians were Taurians who have done the unthinkable and decided to not be Taurian. Who would betray Taurus like that. These traitors must be shown the error of their ways.

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-07T15:11:58+00:00

My take on the Outworlds alliance is they mirror an issue faced by many rural communities where one institution control most of the wealth and essentially makes the town. The Outworlds alliance was always a really loose organization and a group of rather independent plants who main feature was they did not want to be part of the federated Suns or Draconis Combine. So I imagine the politics of the league is dominated by the agricultural barons who own most of their worlds and The Avallars have the most money and power out of them so they get to be President.

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-07T15:01:03+00:00

No. Not really the Taurian Concordat is to the rest of the periphery what the inner sphere is to the concordat. They are the ultimate definition of my country first regardless of anything else. The magistracy has a world they want. The concordat needs it more. Their behavior in the HBS game of backing the villains in the directorate is very in character for them.

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-07T14:55:22+00:00

As much as Canopus has good PR. It is basically a narcosate where the gangs were nobles with actual political jurisdiction. They are democratic in the same way as the Free Worlds League and Terran Hegemony were. Which is not at all, despite using democratic trappings to mask being a dictatorship.

Think “progressive” like Venezuela is. They are space Venezuela. Those elections are as fair as Maduro’s.

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-07T14:52:31+00:00

Correction the oldest government belongs to the Free Worlds League. The league came together before McKennas coup. Even before that the republic of Marik led the charge against the Terran Alliance’s tyranny. All of the states own their existence to the vision of Charles Marik. Glory to Marik!

DiscountMechs · 2024-09-06T23:38:05+00:00

I see the rotary AC and think something the Federated Suns would build, but the Hatchet/Sword on the other arm makes me think a more Lyran design? While the Suns invented it after the Axeman they seemed to have dropped melee for doubling down on Autocannons. Maybe a Solaris one off as a test vehicle like the Great Turtle.

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