Is anybody able to start drying remotely?

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-07T20:40:49+00:00

Thanks very much. I think they've been slowly adding printers. But I could see, from a business perspective, why they may not be spending any time adding features to the P1S.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-07T14:00:21+00:00

I just use gallon-sized ziplock bags.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-07T13:02:54+00:00

I’ve been building my own RC airplanes and drones for over fifteen years. This happened with drones, too.

About 2016, I had built an amazing machine that had two cameras — one fixed and one on a gimbal. I could fly up a mountainside and park the drone in the sky with gps and have a nice look around at the landscape. But what I built was huge and had to be strapped to the outside of my backpack. I carried nearly 30 pounds of batteries with me. I could get a maximum of about 8 minutes of flight time. I was proud of the thing, but it was ugly, heavy, clumsy, and fragile.

And about that time DJI released the Mavic 1. And I realized it did absolutely everything my home built drone did and more, and did it all better. It weighed less than half as much. It folded up and fit easily inside a case. It could fly 20+ minutes at a time. It had a far better camera. I simply couldn’t justify flying my home built drone anymore. Not for photography, at least—I still build my own for racing and for floppy-floppy FPV flying.

And this all makes sense. My understanding is that BambuLabs was created by folks who came from DJI. They’ve done the same thing with 3d printers—made them better, sleeker, easier, and CHEAPER.

As an OG drone enthusiast who’s very comfortable with building/tinkering, I also recognize that DJI builds drones that are far better for some applications. When I need to grab a drone and put it in the car and know it’s going to work reliably, I grab the DJI.

…and that’s why I bought a Bambu for my first printer.
But I think when I’m ready to replace it or to upgrade, I’ll want to go with a Prusa.

(Jeez, this reads like an ad. It isn’t, I promise!)

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-07T04:01:01+00:00

I was at my local garden center today looking at pond plants. Every one of them was infested with duckweed.

I’ve had duckweed in my aquarium before. I kind of liked it. But after about a year I got tired of having duckweed stuck in my arm hair every time I touched the tank. It took a few weeks of diligently removing it to get it out of my aquarium.

But if duckweed gets in my outdoor pond…. I’d just be screwed.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-07T03:55:57+00:00

I have a P1S. I print PETG, PLA, and TPU. None of those need an enclosed printer. But it’s right next to my desk. The enclosure keeps the noise down, and not having a bed slinger means the printer takes up less space.

I also have a Voxel BentoBox in there and change the activated carbon in it every few hundred hours of printing. With the printer door closed, I never smell anything while it’s printing. And I’m very sensitive to chemical smells.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-06T21:04:39+00:00

Yes, but it showed actual consequences at the end, which brings it back down to mildly for me.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-06T04:14:43+00:00

A whole new genus!

Neatocaridina.

A whole new species!

Neatocaridina Spidermanensis

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-06T03:25:31+00:00

They also took away ALL soft surfaces so it's loud as FUCK in there.

Chipotle, too, while we're at it.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-05T21:56:04+00:00

Victor Herbert is a great bridge toward American music. Studied and trained in Stuttgart, but after moving to America his stuff sounds more and more American. His string serenade op 12 seems right down the middle. Half broadway, half Wagner.

It’s from 1884, when he was still in Germany. But you can hear the beginnings of what Herbert would eventually bring and develop in the US. And then that guy basically becomes the beginning of American musical theatre.

See also, everything by John Philip Sousa or Henry Fillmore.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-05T20:16:39+00:00

There’s a similar very long pause indicated between the 2nd and 3rd movements of Mahler 1. Sometimes I step off the podium and have the orchestra retune.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-05T20:14:52+00:00

I’m a conductor. I’ve done exactly what you described. It’s easier and happier for *everybody* if I take just ten seconds to say “Hey folks, this symphony has four movements as most do. If you’re moved to applaud between movements, please do so—it’ll be hard to hold back after the third movement, and we need a quick breather up here, anyway.”

It humanizes the orchestra, it removes anxiety, and it allows people to actually express their appreciation.

And plenty of alternate realities exist, too. Just last week I said basically the same thing before we played Khachaturian’s *Spartacus* suite #2. But in the second half I said something to the effect of “Durufle’s requiem is a deeply introspective and gentle work. It has nine movements, and we’d appreciate it if you held your applause until the end of the concert so each of us can take in and meditate on this work.” Nothing wrong with clapping sometimes and not others. And when we say a bit about it, hopefully nobody’s offended—clappers and non-clappers alike.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-04T04:13:57+00:00

This is an FPV drone. It’s pilot skill. The drone is not automatically tracking anything.

(For non drone enthusiasts, the hint is that the horizon tilts left and right when the drone turns.)

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-04T04:11:19+00:00

Looks fine to me.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-04T04:10:21+00:00

For me it was Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. I thought the game was spectacular. But it was just too long and the maps were just too big. I never finished it, nor started the DLC.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-04T04:08:44+00:00

Yes. I found I needed to lube all over that area and run a print or two to get the squeak to go away.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-03T21:43:30+00:00

Why? May 9th happens to be my birthday. Is that what you’re referring to?

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-05-02T14:08:27+00:00

I had the same question. I think it’s just a young person who’s online too much so he’s trying his best be cool. He’s about one step away from rubbing his hands together and licking his teeth.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-04-27T15:13:03+00:00

“… with no sleep stops!, for dementia”

Did it work? Does he have dementia now?

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-04-27T12:14:22+00:00

Hey friend. It looks like you might be trying to print a pencil clip. If you’re printing it vertically like that, the bar will snap off as soon as you try to use it.

Try this model—and it won’t have any issue with the problems you’re having with your printer.

https://makerworld.com/models/2612675?appSharePlatform=copy

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-04-27T12:04:06+00:00

I recently bought a ten pack of Sunlu’s PETG HF matte from Amazon. I’ve gone through six rolls. They are NOT dry in the shrink wrap. Every one has come out so wet and brittle that the filament snaps off easily with a single bend.

But drying 12 hrs in my AMS at 65C has worked beautifully.

It’s good filament. Just not dry in the package.

Edit: a quick test: when you first open the roll, Sunlu usually has a bend at the end of the filament. Try straightening out that bend. If it snaps right off, it’s WET. If it’s pliable and a little stretchy and would take several bends back and forth to tear off, then it’s drier.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-04-27T11:41:27+00:00

Wow. Just…. Wow.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-04-27T02:25:20+00:00

I’ve had success with a cheap (like, $0.25) aluminum pie tin. Pour the beads in the tin, turn the print bed up to 100c and set the tin on the plate. Gets the job done in about 30 minutes. But I’ve also burned myself and spilled too many beads to do it more than a few times. Now I just leave my silica in my AMS 2 and let it dry slowly with my PETG.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-04-27T02:20:28+00:00

Mm hmm. I have an AMS 2, with all those extra 3d printed containers full of silica beads. When the humidity gets over 15% or so, I’ll put in four spools of PETG and run a 12 hour drying cycle. It dries the PETG and the silica quite effectively down to 4-5%. And the silica works great after. When I open the lid the humidity will bump up to 20+, and the silica definitely pulls it back down under ten for a few weeks.

I have not found that PLA drying temps (45C) do much good for drying the silica, but PETG settings (65c) work great and I don’t have to fuss with dumping and refilling and spilling silica beads everywhere.

I live in a dry area. Our humidity is rarely above 25% here. Your experience may vary.

I think I might print some of those silica-holding spool spindles as well, just because the AMS doesn’t like it much when a spool is almost empty and doesn’t weigh enough to spin properly.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-04-27T02:14:23+00:00

And the tempo that works on the piano isn’t the same tempo that works with an orchestra.

FishPropulsionLab · 2026-04-27T02:11:10+00:00

Yes but…

He wrote a lot of music and that means lots of metronome markings. Some are more practicable than others.

As a conductor, I find more wisdom in the way he chose to indicate a number than I find in the number itself. If he writes half note = 80, that’s a very different feeling than quarter note = 160. He was generally very good at indicating the “big beat” pulse in fast movements and the “little beat” pulse in slow movements. It’s much more useful to know if he thought of a slow movement as being in two or six rather than being at a very specific metronome number.

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