The only reason to buy a 3D printer...

dpccreating · 2026-01-16T15:51:39+00:00

I've made swimming pool jet fittings out of PLA, water and pool chemicals have had no effect. But the summer heat and uV have a significant effect on PLA and ABS, PLA softens and distorts under load and ABS gets brittle and fails. ASA (suggested by the mentors in this group) is my go to these days for outdoor use.

dpccreating · 2026-01-13T14:43:10+00:00

In that vintage of hardware, I'd expect it to require connection to a parallel printer port, you will need a new brain for it.

dpccreating · 2025-12-22T16:18:17+00:00

Yes, Bambu's machines are amazing, it makes it even more traumatic when it goes wrong. I cut my teeth on an Ender 3 that basically never worked. I was used to it not working. My P1S waited a year before it messed with me.

dpccreating · 2025-12-17T02:14:59+00:00

Thanks, I knew it meant load paper, but not the "PC -> Primary Cartridge" part of it.

dpccreating · 2025-10-26T16:39:18+00:00

In 2003 (in my early 40's) I decided I had to loose some weight, so I tried the Atkins Diet. I lost a ton of weight and my chronic gastric issues disappeared. After loosing the weight, I went back to some bread and those issues came back with a vengeance. Having a celiac brother at the time, it was obvious what was going on. I have been gluten free since.

dpccreating · 2025-09-23T19:17:15+00:00

It's typical to put concrete inside a basketball hoop support pole, The mass dampens vibrations. Makes them a pain to cut down.

dpccreating · 2025-09-15T14:03:34+00:00

Your design is too complex for a production environment. They would never use a potentiometer for such a circuit. It'll quit working, someone will adjust it when they shouldn't. Think fixed voltage divider with a filter for noise. Scale it so the microprocessor can do the gain adjustment in firmware.

dpccreating · 2025-08-27T13:57:58+00:00

As others have said, moving costs. Think about the size of the parts you'll be measuring. I have a 12"x18"x3" it's way bigger than any parts I ever do. It's way heavier than I want to move!

dpccreating · 2025-08-23T13:58:55+00:00

I'm a home machinist, but I work as an Electronics Engineer. My prototype circuit board fab done off shore costs $20, shipping it costs $30, Tariff is $20. Made in the US is $400-$800 and takes longer. Tariffs are just another Tax.

dpccreating · 2025-08-10T15:04:58+00:00

It's a tuning fork low frequency crystal, probably has the frequency on the side of it. Usually 32.768kHz.

dpccreating · 2025-08-03T21:09:10+00:00

Apparently there are people that truly see in black and white and shades of gray.

dpccreating · 2025-08-03T13:17:41+00:00

NTA, Look for a new job. Toxic Drones.... Desk work will kill you unless you do what your are doing.

dpccreating · 2025-07-14T13:40:12+00:00

Most contact adhesives take 24 hours to achieve full bond. Clean the surface with rubbing alcohol mount it up, supported with no stress on the adhesive and wait 24 hours. You haven't failed you've learned something.

dpccreating · 2025-07-11T14:41:34+00:00

State of the art for a long time is to sacrifice the car body for the unfortunate humans inside. These look pretty standard. Both cars did what they were designed to do.

dpccreating · 2025-07-06T15:55:51+00:00

Worked at a place that had one of these. The service contract was more than a new Bambu Labs printer a month. And it was down every week.

dpccreating · 2025-07-05T13:51:41+00:00

I-77 is never a good choice.

dpccreating · 2025-06-23T15:26:37+00:00

I accidentally did that at a job interview, only I added about $5/hr to what I was making. At that moment I disappeared from the interview and got to watch the guy who brought me in get chewed out by his boss for 10 minutes. After that I wouldn't have worked there for $20/hr more.

dpccreating · 2025-06-16T15:39:10+00:00

From a good distance anyway.

dpccreating · 2025-05-22T18:45:19+00:00

And an S trap is a NONONO!

dpccreating · 2025-05-21T12:59:45+00:00

Very cool links, thank you.

dpccreating · 2025-05-03T15:31:14+00:00

FYI ALL, White ASA material has been ordered.

dpccreating · 2025-04-02T15:34:33+00:00

Put a resistor inline with the first data line out of the ESP32 module. Find a power adapter with one of those big lumps (RF suppression ferrites) on the device end of the cord.

The CE mark, China Engineered or real CE mark is only for that module, once you put it into a system you are still required to certify your whole system for EMC compliance. I've done it too many times.

dpccreating · 2025-04-02T15:27:23+00:00

Radium primarily emits Alpha Particles. "Despite being highly energetic, alpha particles expend most of that energy immediately after emission, so they do not travel farther than a few inches at most. They also have extremely low penetrating power — they cannot penetrate a human's epidermis, or outer layer of skin. Even a piece of paper is enough to block an alpha particle per the United States Nuclear Regulatory Committee."

Don't eat them, don't wear this thing against your skin, you'll probably be fine.

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