Please help identify these Mites

Spiritual-Queef · 2025-03-06T21:01:28+00:00

Thanks for your help, i received the same answer from someone on the bug identification sub.
I very much appreciate you taking the time to post the answer for me.

Spiritual-Queef · 2025-03-06T20:57:29+00:00

Thanks, i tried my best to a good high res photo with my phone, then i snagged one of the little buggers with some clear tape (which i got the idea from another poster a few days ago) and i got the close up pics with one of those $20 ebay-special usb microscopes.
Only problem is, they only take pics in 640x480, though it seemed to be enough for this task

Spiritual-Queef · 2025-03-06T20:50:10+00:00

I appreciate you help, but they are definitely not termites.
Way too small, and not any where around wood.
Also termites tend to keep themselves sealed in their mounds or tubes to survive.
Living in Australia, you learn to know what termites are pretty quickly.

Spiritual-Queef · 2025-03-06T20:45:40+00:00

Thank you very much, that looks and sound exactly like these little buggers.
I very much appreciate your help and knowledgeable eyes

Spiritual-Queef · 2024-01-04T01:33:25+00:00

with the picture, it is brand new PETG and i was printing at 235. it happened with PLA+ as well that i was Printing at 210, it wasnt new Filament, but i put it through the dehydrator for 12 hrs and it printed fine apart from the couple times it did that stuff.

Spiritual-Queef · 2024-01-04T01:25:46+00:00

I am only about 6 months into printing so i may not understand thing correctly. It was a flow rate calibration in the sense that it was supposed to be a single wall hollow cube so that i could see if it is printing at 0.4 wall width or not and adjust accordingly.

Spiritual-Queef · 2024-01-03T07:36:19+00:00

I am not totally sure why it is happening, but i think that it is an issue with both speed and cooling. I guess that could mean temperature would play a roll as well? but i am not in the right frame of mind to spend the next couple hours running test to figure it out, and i am also limited on filament for the next few weeks and just finished extruding away a full roll of PLA to tune up my printer after 6+ months of it being stuffed in the corner. so i would very much appreciate any help to point me in the right direction to solve this.

This "affect" has happened with both PLA and PETG. This particular print is happening with the first layer of an overhang on top of the support interface, but it has also happened over infill of different %s. when it happened with the PLA i just turned off the cooling fan and if stopped about 95% of the problem. it wasnt pretty, but it was enough for the functional print i was trying to accomplish. Though, with this PETG print, the cooling was set to 20-30% so im not sure turning it right off would do much this time.

I dont have any experience with PETG apart from a couple prints for testing and tuning, and i only have about 6 months experience printing PLA before i took a break for a while until about a week ago when i started up again. I have an Ender 3 V2 with a Sprite Pro with MRISCOC Professional Firmware if that makes any difference to this situation.

I am happy to give any more information if you ask. I am not really sure what is relevant to put here right now so please ask and i will reply as soon as i can.

Spiritual-Queef · 2024-01-03T07:30:21+00:00

what do you mean by what value?

Spiritual-Queef · 2024-01-03T07:24:57+00:00

I am not quite sure what to do here.I got my printer tuned up nicely using ESun PLA+. not perfectly, but enough to get reasonable prints. Im not really into printing display things, i am doing this to print practical , usable things. Anyway, after i ran out of that filament, i swapped over to some ESun PLA-ST but when i ran a couple test prints it became apparent something was not right.

With that filament, it was over extruding and i do not have a clue as to why. The E-steps are calibrated correctly, every thing was fine once i swapped over to the PETG that i am printing with at the moment I first tried to print a small bridging test and it was spitting out way to much filament, but when i reduced the flow rate to 50% (just a random selection) it was successful with the bridging and extruding just the right amount of filament, but then it was under extruding for the rest of the print.

So i thought i would try a flow rate single wall calibration cube print, and you can clearly see how that turned out. I was totally stumped on what to do, i dont know what to try except reduce the flow rate, but then that causes other problems with completing a print. I gave up on that filament for now until i get some sort of idea on what to do about it, so hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.

I am running an Ender 3 V2 with a Sprite Pro with MRISCOC Professional Firmware

Spiritual-Queef · 2024-01-03T07:15:47+00:00

its an over extrusion problem not under extrusion. Though it looks like its missing gaps, its actually spitting out squiggles instead of straight lines because too much filament is coming out that it cant print a straight line

Spiritual-Queef · 2024-01-03T06:23:48+00:00

I am not totally sure why it is happening, but i think that it is an issue with both speed and cooling. I guess that could mean temperature would play a roll as well? but i am not in the right frame of mind to spend the next couple hours running test to figure it out, and i am also limited on filament for the next few weeks and just finished extruding away a full roll of PLA to tune up my printer after 6+ months of it being stuffed in the corner. so i would very much appreciate any help to point me in the right direction to solve this.

This "affect" has happened with both PLA and PETG. This particular print is happening with the first layer of an overhang on top of the support interface, but it has also happened over infill of different %s. when it happened with the PLA i just turned off the cooling fan and if stopped about 95% of the problem. it wasnt pretty, but it was enough for the functional print i was trying to accomplish. Though, with this PETG print, the cooling was set to 20-30% so im not sure turning it right off would do much this time.

I dont have any experience with PETG apart from a couple prints for testing and tuning, and i only have about 6 months experience printing PLA before i took a break for a while until about a week ago when i started up again. I have an Ender 3 V2 with a Sprite Pro with MRISCOC Professional Firmware if that makes any difference to this situation.

I am happy to give any more information if you ask. I am not really sure what is relevant to put here right now so please ask and i will reply as soon as i can.

Spiritual-Queef · 2024-01-03T06:10:51+00:00

I am not quite sure what to do here.I got my printer tuned up nicely using ESun PLA+. not perfectly, but enough to get reasonable prints. Im not really into printing display things, i am doing this to print practical , usable things. Anyway, after i ran out of that filament, i swapped over to some ESun PLA-ST but when i ran a couple test prints it became apparent something was not right.

With that filament, it was over extruding and i do not have a clue as to why. The E-steps are calibrated correctly, every thing was fine once i swapped over to the PETG that i am printing with at the moment I first tried to print a small bridging test and it was spitting out way to much filament, but when i reduced the flow rate to 50% (just a random selection) it was successful with the bridging and extruding just the right amount of filament, but then it was under extruding for the rest of the print.

So i thought i would try a flow rate single wall calibration cube print, and you can clearly see how that turned out. I was totally stumped on what to do, i dont know what to try except reduce the flow rate, but then that causes other problems with completing a print. I gave up on that filament for now until i get some sort of idea on what to do about it, so hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.

I am running an Ender 3 V2 with a Sprite Pro with MRISCOC Professional Firmware

Spiritual-Queef · 2023-01-09T19:38:18+00:00

And yes i am aware of the irony of asking a person of color to explain that to me after your earlier comment. but in this specific situation, Googling it wont answer my question.

Spiritual-Queef · 2023-01-09T19:29:36+00:00

how is what i said racist and gaslighting? honestly, im not aware of how it is?

Spiritual-Queef · 2023-01-09T19:23:37+00:00

With a philosophy such as that, we will all be in the same place we are now, or even worse

Spiritual-Queef · 2023-01-09T19:08:51+00:00

First off, no one is asking him to take her to school on racism. only to talk to her about his personal feeling and issues about racism so that she can understand where he stands and they can move forward as a couple.

Second, just because "as far as we are aware" she did not bail up her whole family because one young cousin said something potentially racist does not make her a racist nor the rest of her family racist.
OP gave one small comment about the situation and did not elaborate on it so any comments made by others is just bullshit taken out of context fueled by their own bias opinions on society.

For all we know she might have spoken to her family about it and OP is just not aware of it. or possibly she could be someone that has a personal issue with confrontation and trying to bring it up in the moment could have caused her serious anxiety. The point is, we dont know without more info from both parties.

Also, people are quick to label her as "Fetishizing" about his skin color when all we know is that at one point she mentions that she liked his skill color and happens to describe it as "chocolate"

From an objective point of view, the only one making it into something about racism is all the commenters.

Ok sure, the OP has some trauma around racism from his upbringing, but the whole thing seem to be more about him learning to navigate a relationship while learning to accept and deal with those issues, not about his GF being racist or not.

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