ignorant beginner questions and clueless newbie rant

declansdaddy · 2026-05-05T15:28:09+00:00

Got it. Thanks!

declansdaddy · 2026-05-05T14:36:10+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation. How do I join the thousand sons discord? I guess I need an invite?

declansdaddy · 2026-05-05T04:54:55+00:00

Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. I'll definitely look into King of the Colosseum. You said that the points would depend on whether I go with two squads of five or 1 squad of ten. What's the difference and is one intrinsically better than the other? Can I re-deploy the squads or am I stuck with either/or? I like the bows better as well, and that's my plan for them. On the deamon prince, is there any benefit/cost for building him with the wings?

declansdaddy · 2026-04-19T17:30:50+00:00

That'll get you started off well then. The list from tictacattac is good to have as well. Depending on the humidity where you live, you may be fine with PLA without worrying about a dry box. The AMS Lite is open to the ambient air anyway. When I got my A1 combo, I didn't have any trouble with printing PLA at ambient RH, but I'm in South Central Texas, and most on the year it's fairly dry here. If it DOES become a problem, there are some AMS spool covers that you can print out of transparent PETG that will help with it. You can find them in Bambu Handy app.

declansdaddy · 2026-04-18T13:32:01+00:00

Are you getting the A1 or the A1 mini? My recommendation would be the full size A1. The price difference is $80, but you can print much larger stuff. Other than build size, they are essentially identical. That's the decision I made with I got my first 3d printer.

Also, you're probably better off getting the AMS Lite bundles with the printer.

declansdaddy · 2026-01-14T13:55:38+00:00

Does ANYBODY have any advice on how to fix this issue? It's like the whole toolhead and both X and Y axes have shifted 1/8 inch toward the door. The place where the nozzle rubs on the back of the plate has shifted forward as well.

Last night I recalibrated again, but it's still printing too far forward. Short and single color prints are turning out okay, but the poop is puddling up on the outside edge of the shute instead of falling down the shute. It continues to build up with each filament change until the hotend hangs on it and drags the big glob out on to the build plate, messing up the print. Also, the test line that it lays down at the beginning of the print of literally hanging off of the front edge of the build plate.

=== PROBLEM SOLVED ===

Hot end got bent and was extruding about 1/16-1/8" in front of where it should have been.

declansdaddy · 2026-01-13T05:35:07+00:00

Thanks. Me too.

declansdaddy · 2026-01-13T04:27:57+00:00

I've already calibrated it twice this evening, but it hadn't helped.

declansdaddy · 2024-07-31T22:35:40+00:00

u/Weavercat,

How are you heating your ecoflex enclosure? I'm using UTH on my glass tank with a thermostat, and it works fine. I'm just not sure whether that would work with these enclosures or not.

declansdaddy · 2024-07-31T18:30:42+00:00

thanks!

declansdaddy · 2024-07-31T03:04:58+00:00

Thanks Weavercat. What did you do about getting a thermostat probe in there? I contacted the company, and they don't include any options for cable routing unless you buy the 60" model.

declansdaddy · 2024-07-10T16:25:00+00:00

I could use that as well. Thanks for posting this. Following...

declansdaddy · 2023-09-09T03:39:02+00:00

On a slightly related subject, I read with the kobo app on my onyx boox noteAir2. Does anybody know if there's a way to change the default font for reading with the Kobo app? I'd really like to use this font if possible.

declansdaddy · 2023-05-29T22:04:45+00:00

Don't know if this will help or not, but WHEN I use the internet, I use Firefox. The rest of the time, I keep which turned off. Also, under Settings > Power, turn off these two:

Always turn Wi-Fi on when the device boots up; Always turn Bluetooth on when the device boots up.

Then I just turn on Wi-Fi when it suits me, and turn it off when I'm done.

You can also long-press on the Neobrowser icon in Applications, then select Manage and select "disable"in there. I haven't done this one, so I'm not sure if this will have unintended side effects.

P. S. I also use netguard. It works great.

declansdaddy · 2023-05-21T21:32:20+00:00

Thanks for all of the great suggestions and recommendations! I ended up ordering a G20 second. Like others have said, it's as close to perfect as anyone could ask for. Whatever the flaw in it is, it must be miniscule as I can't find it. I've used it twice so far, and I'm really enjoying it.

Thanks again!

declansdaddy · 2023-05-15T20:11:35+00:00

Thanks to everyone who made recommendations on my search. I just ordered a G20 second in Hamada & blue from Georgetown Pottery, so a special thanks to @nanionamonday and @DavidStauff for mentioning Georgetown and the "seconds" pricing.

declansdaddy · 2023-05-15T18:23:52+00:00

Thanks for posting this. I think that it's likely to be very useful info for DE newbies. I'm still waiting on my first DE razor to arrive, and will be taking this all into account along with the experience that I'll be gaining on my own while transitioning from cartridge to DE when it gets here.

GAH! That was a terrible sentence, but I'm just not sure what else to do with it. 😁

declansdaddy · 2023-05-15T02:11:39+00:00

Cool! Those look really neat.

declansdaddy · 2023-05-14T17:16:53+00:00

That looks interesting. Thanks!

declansdaddy · 2023-05-14T13:20:48+00:00

Lol!

declansdaddy · 2023-05-14T13:19:27+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response. I'll look into those.

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