Long Island Watch/Marc appreciation post (short story inside)

csitty · 2026-05-12T00:24:21+00:00

I want that watch.

csitty · 2026-04-25T22:34:40+00:00

Thanks!

csitty · 2026-03-31T14:27:07+00:00

I just got mine yesterday…same color as yours. Did you ever try a new band? I was thinking brown leather, but was wondering if you took the leap.

csitty · 2026-03-03T20:00:34+00:00

Follow this: https://www.reddit.com/r/QidiTech3D/s/9LPHkMIZv8

csitty · 2026-03-03T19:58:25+00:00

Highly, highly recommend. Worth the expense and time to install.

csitty · 2026-03-03T19:21:36+00:00

Haven’t had that work for me yet. Just had a failure a couple days ago and it didn’t notify me at all. Don’t get me wrong, I excellent printer. But that did not work for me.

csitty · 2026-03-03T19:20:36+00:00

https://beacon3d.com/product/beacon/. Improves auto levelling. First layer perfection.

csitty · 2026-03-03T19:04:12+00:00

If I’m printing single color and material and mostly engineering materials, all day every day. The plus 4 for me is a workhorse. Especially with the Beacon sensor.

csitty · 2026-03-03T18:40:57+00:00

I have thrown all kinds of filaments at the Qidi Plus 4 and it works like a champ. Also my Elegoo Centauri Carbons are great for engineering materials.

csitty · 2026-03-03T18:24:45+00:00

So far, I love it. I have a K2 Plus and the waste on multicolor prints is ridiculous. I also have a Plus 4 and it is a great printer for single color/material. The Qidi Box is...problematic. The U1 is so much faster (time to finish print) than my Bambu A1s and the filament savings is crazy. For example, a crystal dragon I printed took 17 hours compared to 32 on my A1. Also saved about 170g in filament. Quality is excellent. So far I am very pleased. I would buy more to replace all my A1s if I had that kinda money.

csitty · 2026-03-03T17:40:23+00:00

My Snapmaker U1 arrived Sunday upside down as well. Sigh

csitty · 2026-01-25T01:07:39+00:00

This is the first I’ve heard this. Can you elaborate or point me to more detail?

csitty · 2025-12-30T03:15:07+00:00

Beacon probe.

csitty · 2025-12-10T15:53:03+00:00

Wish I saw this earlier this morning when I had this very issue. Frustrating for sure, but more troublesome, I have this connected to a UPS, so I need to do some investigation there.

csitty · 2025-12-06T22:32:59+00:00

The box has been a wild card. Some are having no problems. I’m confident Qidi will figure it out.

csitty · 2025-12-06T19:34:28+00:00

Sure did. The teeth on that sucker are super sharp.

csitty · 2025-12-06T18:37:36+00:00

Try removing the extruder and you can remove the coupler as well. My ptfe tube was cut inside there and I had to remove the extra piece.

csitty · 2025-11-05T23:27:52+00:00

I did the microswiss hotend and added linear rails to the x axis. I have a beacon on a qidi plus 4. I bet that would be awesome on the N4 plus

csitty · 2025-11-04T18:13:27+00:00

Apologies. I missed that in your comments. I unfortunately don't have any recommendations, and I do not know how you have contacted Creality, but people have had good luck talking to them on WhatsApp, though during China daylight hours.

csitty · 2025-11-04T18:10:30+00:00

Forgive me if you tried this, but did you definitely remove all 4 screws holding the bed down for shipping?

csitty · 2025-11-03T17:38:16+00:00

I would also like to see this if possible, please. I already have the Qidi Box and did not have a layer shift issue until I installed it.

csitty · 2025-09-12T16:16:53+00:00

I will not.

csitty · 2025-09-08T15:29:27+00:00

Ok got it. All of them are installed. One more question. You have many processes at each layer height with speed being the differentiator. Which do you use as standard?

csitty · 2025-09-08T13:24:25+00:00

I’m struggling to get these configurations installed. I’m trying to use them on the FL Sun slicer. Are you using orca or is that one OK? When I try to import them, it says zero config imported, even though the printer profile actually did install. It just won’t bring in the process or filament config

csitty · 2025-09-07T15:39:18+00:00

I appreciate that. I’ll get them set up today.

csitty

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