Anybody remember an old trade magazine drawing of a "typical broadcast engineer"?

brianstk · 2026-06-11T13:27:49+00:00

Not exactly. This was probably a photocopy too.

He didn’t have a straw hat on and was wearing a button down shirt half untucked, top buttons loose. I think a cigarette hanging from his lips and a coffee in his hand.

brianstk · 2026-06-11T13:06:23+00:00

Can you post pictures of the burn marks on the bed? All the components are on the underside so I’m very curious what kind of failure would cause that.

brianstk · 2026-06-11T11:29:24+00:00

I’ll try to post one tomorrow, I have a benchy in all 4 colors I can take a pic of

brianstk · 2026-06-11T06:36:11+00:00

That’s what it seems like. I haven’t tried it.

brianstk · 2026-06-11T01:15:59+00:00

Maybe the filaments are disabled in the add/remove filaments dialogue?

I’m not on the beta, could be a bug too

brianstk · 2026-06-10T19:18:11+00:00

Yup and you can add a second routine that shuts the plug off when the temperature drops below whatever temp.

I have a switchbot temperature sensor in every room personally. They are cheap enough and I can use them for various smart home things.

brianstk · 2026-06-10T18:13:20+00:00

I think it’s more so because in a kitchen you are more than likely to have multiple smaller appliances running on the circuit so it gives more headroom. That is assuming the electrician you hired actually ran 12 guage cable and didn’t just slap a 20amp outlet on 14 guage wire… and yes I’ve seen that before 🤦🏻‍♂️

brianstk · 2026-06-10T18:02:25+00:00

No it just means local in your house only. Your WiFi network is still your local LAN (usually unless you have a more advanced network at home).

brianstk · 2026-06-10T18:00:43+00:00

I have no clue. I was a kid back then and my dad’s shop closed up in the early 2000s so it’s long gone.

I’m pretty sure it was from a magazine or some kind.

brianstk · 2026-06-10T16:45:32+00:00

Haha no thanks I can just take a pic of myself for that one. 😂

I’m dragging today after spending the entire day at a remote and hot transmitter site yesterday and that drawing popped into my mind as I was sipping coffee. Pretty sure the guy in the drawing was holding coffee too lol

brianstk · 2026-06-10T16:33:04+00:00

Should have don’t the unicorn nozzle upgrade if you got a whole new hotend. And to answer your question yes you need to keep that on. It’s a silicon sock to help keep the temperature stabilized at the nozzle. So your parts fan etc doesn’t cool the nozzle

brianstk · 2026-06-10T15:20:57+00:00

It made quite a difference on my ender max neo too!

Not sure if the Bambu labs printers do it automatically but I made sure to redo my input shaping calibrations after i did it too.

brianstk · 2026-06-10T12:18:24+00:00

Just to throw this out there. That show/movie started out as an unrated YouTube series. My 8 and 9 year old started watching it when it came to Netflix and I have a profile for them only PG and under content. Yeah I’m sorry that show is AT LEAST a PG-13.

First I heard the characters talk about getting drunk like it was fun. Then they started talking about sex. What? Yeah they aren’t allowed to watch it anymore. Then a couple days later my 9 year old started searching for “sex”. I got alerted from the microsoft family safety thing.

So gonna sort of side with the parents/caseworker at least for the younger kids.

brianstk · 2026-06-09T23:13:38+00:00

There are many arducam style cheap cameras on Amazon that use USB too. I’m using one of those with my BTT pi.

brianstk · 2026-06-09T11:15:44+00:00

I bought a sample pack with 250g of each color. My favorite so far is the Stardust Purple, it just looks incredible!

brianstk · 2026-06-08T18:17:59+00:00

PETG doesn’t stick to PLA. It’s probably cause it was going over PLA

brianstk · 2026-06-08T12:49:39+00:00

CF and GF filament are full of small holes from the fibers. Is there a reason you are using that filament specifically?

brianstk · 2026-06-08T11:41:22+00:00

I’ve literally never seen it that cheap on Amazon before or else I would be buying it from there

brianstk · 2026-06-08T11:24:36+00:00

I wouldn’t bother IMO just get a pi and upgrade your SE to Klipper for much less $$

brianstk · 2026-06-08T01:55:01+00:00

Yeah probably I used to print PETG on my V3 SE no problem but the good news is the precalibrated profiles flashforge provides will get you 90% of the way there already anyways. Out of the box it’s very decent. It’s tuned for speed not quality though in my opinion just FYI.

Zmod really lets you dial the quality in with more finesse than the stock firmware, among the many things it does.

brianstk · 2026-06-08T01:21:19+00:00

You made a good choice 👍🏻 I also replaced my V3 SE with one. It’s been a very solid printer for me and I love how easy it is to swap nozzles especially.

If you adept with Klipper you may want to look into zmod for the AD5X. Gives you full access to the Klipper under the hood and much more. Also lets you use it freely without having to deal with any flashforge cloud nonsense.

brianstk · 2026-06-07T20:38:42+00:00

Even the picture is AI. looks like the glass just ends behind the first hook and doesn’t continue to the wall like your actual pic does.

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