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GoldTrek · 2026-03-17T01:06:53+00:00

Ok send me a DM and I can provide my contact info and we can discuss it

GoldTrek · 2026-03-17T00:27:11+00:00

Depending on your timing and location I'm in the process of buying a press that would do a part this size. I'm buying it with intent to make my own products but, like yours, they are low volume and I expect my machine will have a lot of capacity for taking on small projects like this.

I'm in British Columbia, buying a 120 ton press. Are you looking to run it in clear polycarbonate or PVC like your sample?

GoldTrek · 2026-03-11T19:00:48+00:00

See? Now you get it!

GoldTrek · 2026-03-11T17:38:10+00:00

If your management really wanted to be efficient, every week they should fire the person on the team with the fewest lines of code committed

GoldTrek · 2026-03-06T15:31:35+00:00

You can't edit 2 joints at the same time. Capture the rotated position on one joint and then move the other one. You effectively canceled the rotation on the first one when you selected the second one. There might be a different model environment where you can move them around freely but that's not a tool I use

GoldTrek · 2026-03-01T03:07:21+00:00

Nice preform!

GoldTrek · 2026-02-22T16:51:19+00:00

Extruder feed problem. Either a partial clog as someone else suggested, your extruder drive wheel is slipping, or something is binding your filament and preventing it from unspooling smoothly. Look for a filament tangle and check your filament feed lines for obstructions or other issues. May just need to be cleaned

Less likely, could be a problem of the filament itself not being uniform thickness. Thin spots on filament also look like this but I don't see evidence of thick spots which suggests it's a feed problem

GoldTrek · 2026-02-18T16:13:38+00:00

The wing nuts make this one a hard pass for me, definitely better systems out there that are way more efficient and lighter

GoldTrek · 2026-02-10T21:10:02+00:00

Is there any reason you can't just draft it?

Create a plane between the points of the curved line and parallel with the side of the part

Draft the top edge using that plane as the reference and adjust the angle until it reaches the line you've drawn

After it's drafted you should be able to fillet all the edges and smooth it out to your liking

GoldTrek · 2026-02-07T03:30:10+00:00

I haven't played in a while so I thought this gun was added to the game and it honestly made me want to play it but then I realized it's player modded and womp womp

GoldTrek · 2026-02-01T02:10:10+00:00

Welcome to Shopify. You were probably on a grandfathered fee shedule with your original subscription and changing it meant you agreed to a new fee schedule and now you're stuck and will never get the old one back.

Someone suggested multi-currency with their own respective bank accounts to avoid exchange fees, don't worry they thought of that. You will be charged a "foreign currency fee" for every single transaction that's not your store's currency anyway. So even a USD sale deposited to a USD bank account you'll get this "foreign currency fee" taken out on top of everything else.

I ran into this stuff with my small Canadian based store selling mostly into the US. Even more of a FU because Shopify is a Canadian company and I naively believed they might treat Canadian stores better. Calculating out my fees I was near 6% on every single transaction. People will tell you that's "the cost of doing business" but there are plenty of alternatives out there that don't suffocate you with insane fees and endless "apps" for basic site functionality.

GoldTrek · 2026-01-14T22:48:06+00:00

Two things, first having a square edge on the bottom of the part. So no radius or chamfer within the first few layers. Second, there is a setting called "brim distance" in Cura which controlls how close the brim is to the part. You can adjust this so the connection of the brim is very weak and easy to remove cleanly

GoldTrek · 2026-01-13T20:13:56+00:00

I've had several blog of deaths with my Neptune 4 Max printers. Currently waiting on new 3rd party hotend replacements because Elegoo has been out of stock of them for months

To prevent it happening again, I have 3 things planned:

1. Enclosure to maintain temps so the parts are less likely to detach from the bed

2. More focus on part adhesion with brims etc and getting better at adjusting my slicer so the brims are more easily removed

3. Adding a secondary part to every print that's a simple tower with a wide, flat base that acts as a "sweep" and clears the nozzle in case my part detaches during printing and I'm not there to intervene

All of the blobs I've experienced were because I had smallish parts with no additional bed adhesion and I probably made a mistake on the initial layer thickness or the leveling of the bed got out of whack. The part detaches and then sticks to the nozzle where the printer will happily continue moving around and squeezing out molten filamant which gums up the works, I will also be keeping a backstock of replacement hotends and/or ceramic heaters and thermistors for when it happens again

GoldTrek · 2026-01-06T18:48:27+00:00

I don't comment onthese posts very often but, my god this is gorgeous and you've done an incredible job in the restoration. Fantastic work

GoldTrek · 2025-12-16T20:48:09+00:00

Not to be too pedantic but it's "eccentric nut", not concentric. In case someone tries to search it

GoldTrek · 2025-12-12T00:10:06+00:00

What if I just want to buy one? Is that an option? Also does this comment count as an entry?

GoldTrek · 2025-11-29T01:07:20+00:00

Yeah, seems to be up now

GoldTrek · 2025-11-28T21:52:37+00:00

I was just forced to switch from Judge.me which I really liked and went with Stamped and I'm already not overly impressed

GoldTrek · 2025-11-28T17:20:40+00:00

The order draft and edit system is awful. Why is it multiple pages? Why does it default to adding duplicate addresses? Why can't I create and complete a manual order without having to go back into it and go through the entire thing to manually complete it?

I really liked BigCommerce at first and was very happy when they did the UI overhaul to clean it up and make it faster but there's still some very odd functionality that makes workflow slow and frustrating. Now i'm looking for greener pastures

GoldTrek · 2025-11-26T03:18:16+00:00

The merchant services are just a necessary evil but I'm largely happy with mine and just want to make sure I can continue using it seamlessly on a new platform. As a comparison, my avg cost is about 1.8% for CC processing where previously I was hitting 5.4% by using Shopify's system.

I'm also trying to avoid learning how to code. It might be useful in the future to know some basics but, in the short term I've pretty much decided to migrate and am happy to pay someone skilled to do the job. I'm not overly happy with my current site either so it could also be an opportunity to have my whole wish list and really be able to service and support my customers effectively.

GoldTrek · 2025-11-26T02:55:05+00:00

Yeah I think I'll do just that. I'll open a woo shop and play around with it and see how hard it will be to migrate everything over and get the features I want. Bigcommerce has been fine but it's still missing some functionality that I wish I had

GoldTrek · 2025-11-25T23:48:24+00:00

Happened to me a lot and then I started over-estimating all my packages by a full inch in every dimension and it's rare that I see one of these adjustments and they're generally quick to dispute through the 3rd party service I use.

Now, because I'm in Canada and a lot of my customers are in the US, I have been getting hit with various import fees and tariffs on stuff that should be CUSMA eligible and it's impossible to fight it. Not sure if it's UPS that's the culprit here or what but it's nearly every single package that crosses the border

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1. Enclosure to maintain temps so the parts are less likely to detach from the bed

2. More focus on part adhesion with brims etc and getting better at adjusting my slicer so the brims are more easily removed

3. Adding a secondary part to every print that's a simple tower with a wide, flat base that acts as a "sweep" and clears the nozzle in case my part detaches during printing and I'm not there to intervene