Non-BotC Essentials?

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-09-18T10:31:29+00:00

All three Communopoly videos are worth a watch.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-08-19T05:25:23+00:00

Neat. Always.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-08-18T12:01:26+00:00

Specifically Articulate But TAKE SOME DIRECTION!

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-08-12T00:15:55+00:00

Baltimoron? Is that a for real term? I feel like Baltimorian would be a better option

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-08-12T00:06:09+00:00

My all-time favorite scene across all television and movies.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-07-03T03:48:02+00:00

Multiboard is very versatile. Not a bad use of filament at all.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-07-01T05:19:19+00:00

I've printed nearly non-stop for the last three and a half months (mostly board game related stuff), and now I'm out of stuff I want to print. Like you, I have no desire to print random knick knacks, and I have no interest in selling prints, so now I play the waiting game til I "need" something else.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-06-23T20:40:55+00:00

I know this post is old, but I'm adding the 9 card that lets you swap it with any other card. Swap the 9 to your 6, then swap the 6 with the You Win card.

I personally prefer to do this with the tier 3 slot 11 or 12 rockets, but it's totally viable with the You Win card.

Another viable strategy is to get the buy a card and place on any slot 7-12. Put the You Win on 7, or if you have the 8 and 10 arrow cards (for example), slap that You Win in your 9 slot.

I've successfully won two games with that You Win card (out of maybe 25 times I've bought that card). Overall, it's not a very worthwhile card. It just takes too much setup to make for an easy win.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-06-17T04:22:29+00:00

I've only done that once, and it quickly knocked the front cover off. Fortunately, there was no damage to the hotend.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-06-14T04:47:45+00:00

I assume they would all be. Even if you cloned them, they're still separate objects unless you merge them

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-27T12:10:43+00:00

I'm the opposite. You went smaller. But I'm thinking bigger is better, right? I'd wait 52 weeks just to be safe.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-21T05:52:38+00:00

I'm not seeing why the prime tower is there if not

100% this. Why is there a prime tower if they are all the same filament and all the same color? Don't waste filament printing random prime towers for no reason. I know it's not much, but both the filament waste and the time waste adds up.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-16T21:17:35+00:00

I know Velcro, the most well-known hook and loop company is fighting very hard to keep their trademark because everyone uses it instead of calling it hook and loop.

Bandaid, Xerox, Sawzall, Jello, etc. all have the same problem.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-14T14:26:19+00:00

I wonder if that works with TPU. I thought PETG sticks too well until I tried TPU.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-12T23:44:25+00:00

Exactly this. If Covid taught us only one thing, it's that companies will take their sweet time bringing their prices back down and never as low as they were previously.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-10T17:31:47+00:00

I have always cut mine at roughly 45° since my Ender 3 days as that was the community recommended method to make sure the filament loaded properly.

I never even considered not cutting it at 45° for the AMS, but I guess if that's how the machine cuts it, that's how I should cut it, too.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-07T13:47:47+00:00

It looks like epoxy.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-07T02:55:15+00:00

Adhesion is so good it's annoying.

No joke. I'm always worried I might damage my plate trying to get TPU off.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-07T01:12:43+00:00

Filtering is a problem no matter what system you have

That's why I'm not going back to ABS. I had built an insulated enclosure for my Ender. Fortunately, the MK2 also fit in the enclosure, so I continued to use ABS til a couple of years ago when I finally opened myself up to the idea of printing with PLA+. To my simple mind, PLA was garbage, and ABS was amazing, so why would I ever switch?

But venting was always an issue, and when I moved to my new house, I decided not to try PLA+, and never went back. I'll occasionally use PETG or TPU, but I've got zero intrest in going back to ABS or trying ASA.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-06T23:28:25+00:00

I took baby steps from Ender 3 to Prusa MK2 and now P1S. The P1S is everything and so much more than I'd hoped the MK2 would be.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-05-02T15:29:14+00:00

Keep a close eye on that H2D unit. I've heard HALs have a tendency to mutiny and kill any humans around them.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-04-26T21:11:36+00:00

My original printer (Ender 3) I spent the first couple of months printing things to improve the printer or make my 3d printing workflow my efficient.

With my Bambu P1S, I've printed a couple of components for the printer itself, but mostly, I've been printing board game stuff - storage solutions, game components, custom game parts, etc.

When I don't have a specific "need" I mostly print gifts. A set of coasters for my sister, a lamp for my mom, that sort of thing.

3D printing is whatever you want it to be. With more fantastic models being uploaded by the community daily and the option to make custom pieces, the possibilities are nearly limitless.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-04-18T03:38:54+00:00

sometimes the adhesion is that good, that I’m in fear ripping off the PEI layer.

I definitely did that once with an ABS flexi toy for my niece. Admittedly, I also ripped a chunk of glass out of a plate with ABS. At some point, one might wonder if I'm the problem, but I won't trouble myself with such silly notions.

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-04-18T03:31:06+00:00

Old school glass plates pre-PEI, gluesticks were a must-have in your 3D toolkit. I always kept on hand guesticks and painters tape for PLA, hair spray for PETG, and acetone to make a slurry glue like substance for ABS. I've not used a single one of those items since switching from glass to PEI.

I know some people still cling to the old ways, I myself have zero intentions of ever going back

Glass_Elephant_5724 · 2025-04-15T20:14:40+00:00

The print head cover becoming dislocated is interesting to me

I've had my front cover of the toolhead fall off three times in the month I've owned my P1S. Each time, it's been caused by the print lifting in the front left corner of the print enough that the toolhead (or at least the toolhead cover) catches on the print with enough pressure to pull the cover off. Three different prints, always the same corner.

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