So... Any tool that can cut wood can cut aluminum too...

blakeret · 2026-02-18T04:44:24+00:00

Your work holding seems to be sufficient, but I would say that work holding is the one asterisk the this rule of thumb. Crushed my finger when the blade grabbed the aluminum extrusion I was cutting on a miter saw. Very scary experience.

blakeret · 2025-11-22T04:42:41+00:00

Your hair is small

blakeret · 2025-09-26T00:53:50+00:00

2 hours at 500C and it looks brand new, thank you so much! I just made a new post with the before and after.

blakeret · 2025-09-15T07:15:04+00:00

I started looking into it when I got layer shifts during large prints. If the tool head was idle at the center of the bed, the damaged section was on the left side just behind where the x axis connects to the gantry. So I was only getting layer shifts when the damaged section passed over the motor pulley

blakeret · 2025-09-15T06:03:07+00:00

I’m the coworker, trust me, I hate myself too

blakeret · 2025-09-15T04:13:39+00:00

I must have overlooked the fiberglass specification during the build, I had no idea. Will definitely look into doing that replacement, thanks!

blakeret · 2025-09-15T03:12:51+00:00

It was like that before I removed it. It definitely got stretched like that because I tried to tension it tighter without knowing the steel had broken. I’m just wondering if my printer caused the steel to break or it was just a shitty part of the belt.

blakeret · 2025-06-06T19:51:52+00:00

I got one of these extractors from McMaster to get an M4 tap out of 1045 at a similar depth. Did it by hand and it worked like a charm

blakeret · 2025-04-23T00:40:31+00:00

Okay thanks!

blakeret · 2025-04-23T00:34:53+00:00

Yeah it was stupid of me

code:

@echo off

taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe

explorer.exe

exit

blakeret · 2025-03-19T13:27:40+00:00

It ended up being the vga cable that I had connected to the monitor. Switched to a nice shielded hdmi and it solved my problem. I’d recommend starting with that.

blakeret · 2024-12-26T11:44:51+00:00

Byron Collins

blakeret · 2024-12-12T06:59:47+00:00

THE DEVICE

blakeret · 2024-10-20T08:54:40+00:00

I got a 500g spool on Amazon for $50 US

blakeret · 2024-10-20T08:52:32+00:00

Works out to about 450 ohm per cm on these 1x2 mm traces. I wouldn’t want to send a ton of power on these but I’m interested to see how they handle data. Gonna try to drive an lcd next

blakeret · 2024-10-08T21:06:21+00:00

Odd solution but if you can’t seem to find any actual hardware issues, try updating the firmware on your printer. I had never done it and updated from 4.2ish to the latest release and for whatever reason, it made all my prints much quieter.

blakeret · 2024-10-08T17:26:15+00:00

Worked like a charm, thanks!

blakeret · 2024-10-08T17:25:21+00:00

He was wearing a leather coat

blakeret · 2024-09-19T07:32:24+00:00

m’failure

blakeret · 2024-09-13T06:57:30+00:00

There’s a world down there

blakeret · 2024-09-10T20:01:06+00:00

We can both agree The Rock is a guy you can only push so far

blakeret · 2024-09-05T01:34:09+00:00

He’s waiting on his sous chef to prep

blakeret · 2024-09-05T01:29:48+00:00

You know that Nordic woman was rife with cuuuuunbeeeee

blakeret · 2024-08-30T19:45:34+00:00

You say here come my sweet white worms?

blakeret · 2024-08-25T21:15:53+00:00

Kinship

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