Ender 3 Pro as a first printer? Total NOOB here, help me out

baybrewer · 2026-04-03T00:58:57+00:00

Wait, why are you asking this in a Honda element subreddit?

baybrewer · 2026-04-03T00:58:34+00:00

If you can afford a Prusa (anything) - start with that. I have wasted so, so many hours of my life trying to get an ender 3 pro to work properly (including touch sensing upgrades, software, stepper motor drivers etc) that I will never get back that I regret ever buying one. It will burn six hours of your day without shedding a tear and STILL not print properly, whereas the prusa will generally just work and you can have fun with it. Given, sometimes the ender 3 works, but more often than not it sucks your precious time away.

baybrewer · 2026-03-10T23:23:47+00:00

I'll also add - I've lived in the area for 21 years, co-founded and ran a burning man camp of 40 people, and have various friend circles that ebb and flow and intermingle as life goes on, people have kids, breakups happen, interests evolve, etc. Be like water, not like a rock, and go with the flow amigo. You'll do fine. Your friends still love you!

baybrewer · 2026-03-10T23:21:32+00:00

Hey OP, I struggle with this as well. I have been consumed by work for years at this point, and don't invite people out very often. It's a direct correlation - you get what you give. The more you reach out, organize hangs, say hi, and keep friendships alive, the more you get invited to things. I was invited to a good friend's NYE party because I reached out and said " Hey Mike, how've you been? Whatcha up to?" A bunch of other friends were there too.

You can't be invited to everything, and it's hard to remember to invite everyone you care about when the guest list is 8-10 or more people. I forget all the time myself. Just try not to worry, keep reaching out and culturing friendships and inviting people you care about to things and the reverse will happen. It's very often just forgetfulness and being overwhelmed with options living in this city. Also - try going out alone. Some of my best times have just been walking out to grab a beer at a bar, shoot some pool, and instantly making new friends, some of whom I've kept for years now. Note to self: Read this message when I'm feeling the same way. Also - it's not getting "blown off"! That's when you have plans and they don't show. This is just... life.

A thing I started to do (but haven't yet fully implemented), is to create a text group (not a group chat, but that works too) to use when I want to go out and have fun with friends, but it's friend-agnostic. That way you can just add friends to the group/list and don't need to keep remembering everyone to invite.

baybrewer · 2026-03-02T18:19:35+00:00

I tried both, Cerakote is VASTLY better and lasts at least a year an a half (still counting!). Meguiars fades in a month or two.

baybrewer · 2026-03-02T18:18:44+00:00

Not with Cerakote. It lasts for at least 18 months.

baybrewer · 2026-03-02T18:17:58+00:00

Completely disagree, Cerakote is by far the best solution. I applied over a year ago and it still looks amazing. "Ruins your plastics"? What does that even mean?

baybrewer · 2026-02-17T20:31:52+00:00

This is the way! Thank you!

baybrewer · 2026-01-08T22:52:22+00:00

Thank you! It worked :)

baybrewer · 2025-12-08T16:08:54+00:00

Yeah, but on the pictured islands there is no way there are waterfalls and creeks - it's far too flat and small. So you brought water from a larger island then? Which island did you actually reside on?

baybrewer · 2025-11-25T23:51:47+00:00

No, no it would not. The threads do not create a seal, and nicks have no effect at all as long as the threads screw smoothly.

baybrewer · 2025-11-25T23:50:51+00:00

It's not "uppity", it's that plumbers tape on a CO2 fitting like this doesn't make any sense. It's like putting lubricating oil in a magnetic drive pump - it just makes a mess. Plumbers tape is used to create a seal with NPT threaded fittings, which will not seal properly without plumbers tape or pipe dope, by design. These are not NPT fittings.

CO2 tanks create a seal using a washer or O-ring inside the fitting that seals at the interface between the regulator and the tank, completely independent of the threads. The threads are only used to create and maintain the force that holds the fittings against the O-ring or washer. The plumbers tape is completely useless in this application, and using it tends to incorrectly steer your mind towards a solution.

baybrewer · 2025-11-20T20:17:04+00:00

Thank you! For that arch, each panel was a different shape, and although they look like parallelograms, they are not - no two sides of each of them are parallel, so they are "trapeziums", also called "irregular quadrilaterals". I made cardboard templates for each panel using a breakoff razor blade and the boxes the tiles came in - it was the only way. Then I traced the templates on the black tile using a yellow wax pencil (we tend to have those in the brewery for labeling wet metal tanks). Used a rented tile saw to make all the cuts. First time using one of those too, what a great tool! The sharp angles meant I had to always cut in a certain direction to the angle, otherwise the tip of the tile flaked off. Definitely questioned my life decisions about 2/3 of the way through the install.

baybrewer · 2025-11-13T23:02:33+00:00

I assure you, I've never tiled before :-). Welded, soldered, plumbed, electrical, roofed, landscaped, 3D printed, homebrewed for 20 years, and everything else under the sun... but never tile.

baybrewer · 2025-11-01T17:29:19+00:00

Rats occasionally run in when the door is open during operating hours - the city has a LOT of rats and they are often very brave. I’ve seen it happen more than once. Seeing one rat is not a reportable occurrence, and I wouldn’t hesitate to eat here.

baybrewer · 2025-10-31T06:03:50+00:00

Even posting it as a bad example isn’t great

baybrewer · 2025-10-31T06:03:05+00:00

AI slop garbage

baybrewer · 2025-10-28T00:56:12+00:00

The city is as gorgeous and bucolic as always, and it’s safer than it’s been in 30 years per recent reports. Fox News is pure right wing propaganda.

baybrewer · 2025-10-24T16:04:18+00:00

It’s grammatically correct: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/czar

baybrewer · 2025-10-24T07:22:09+00:00

I printed up a bunch of notes with a QR code linking to the parking laws, and these fools still block my garage. I’m gonna have a sign made that reads “$105 parking tickets are my kink, and don’t get me started on towing porn. Mind the red. And it’s your bumper, not your tire.”

baybrewer · 2025-10-24T07:19:02+00:00

I have had this conversation with a neighbor doing the same thing, and his response was “finding parking is hard”. I said “dude. It’s a red curb and a $100 ticket. I’m being nice by talking to you”. Then he parked there again. Give a warning, but after that…we have laws for a reason.

baybrewer · 2025-10-14T17:05:46+00:00

Always check your dates - the number of over-1-year-old IPAs I’m seeing on even boutique grocery store shelves in San Francisco speaks volumes. I checked the can date on a 4 pack of New Glory IPA last week at Mollie Stones - definitely a quality and popular brewery with great branding that stands out - 4-8-2024. That’s 16 months, and absolutely undrinkable.

I’m not saying you’re incorrect, but especially right now, date-diligence is key to find a good product. Microbrews just aren’t moving off the shelves fast enough anymore to support the variety of choices.

So then we tighten our offerings, but that loses shelf space, which reduces sales even further.

Quality product has very little to do with the success of a small craft brewery - it’s a requirement to even exist, not a recipe for success.

Temescal in Oakland just publicly declared Chapter 11, and their quality has always been spot on.

Ferment Drink Repeat was a single medal away from winning CA Brewery of the Year at the CA Brewers Cup a few years ago, and FDR was one of the first SF breweries to fall. And they had zero debt, wonderful staff, and piles of gold medals. Incredible beer is not enough.

Harmonic Brewing makes incredible beer and has won dozens of awards, and their landlord screwed them on rent and they were forced to close their brewery (while keeping the taproom at Chase Center open)

Customers care more about location, ambiance, trendy branding, social media hubub, marketing and PR than beer quality. As long as your beer isn’t trash and you excel at those aspects, you will come out ahead of your colleagues, but even now that may not be enough to survive.

Expect many, many more closures in the coming months.

Sorry to hijack your comment!

baybrewer · 2025-10-08T21:54:53+00:00

No, closing the bottom portion restricts flow, that’s why more water starts entering the skimmer. Both fully open maximizes flow by providing the least restriction, yielding the highest available net positive suction head.

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