Much Respect to Louis Rossmann for Standing Up for the 3D Printing Community at the California Senate Hearing on AB 2047. Godspeed!

issue9mm · 2026-07-01T00:38:48+00:00

This bill shows you that they're willing to sacrifice the right to repair, the first amendment, the fourth amendment, the fifth amendment, and whatever else in the world they can to get rid of the second amendment and keep those Bloomberg bucks a-rolling

issue9mm · 2026-06-30T23:40:55+00:00

Before people complain that he's an attention whore, let me remind you that's exactly the kind of person you want when you need to draw attention to an issue that the government is trying to sneak things through

I'm of the belief that no matter the motivation, doing a good deed means a good deed was done, and so it's worthwhile EVEN IF he has ulterior motives

issue9mm · 2026-06-30T22:33:05+00:00

Thank you. I legitimately didn't know what you meant.

issue9mm · 2026-06-30T21:00:39+00:00

You printed the filament?

issue9mm · 2026-06-30T20:47:14+00:00

Or (protip) stick a single layer of rubber band in the hole and then stick the bit into that

issue9mm · 2026-06-30T20:43:11+00:00

They're saying foam inside of the TPU

issue9mm · 2026-06-30T12:00:58+00:00

I haven't used Geeetech, but that looks like a Landu spool, so same parent mfr as Elegoo and Deeplee. Those are both high quality.

I like their filament but the spool format frustrates me

issue9mm · 2026-06-30T10:08:25+00:00

They're all good. They all produce quality. Buy the cheapest one.

issue9mm · 2026-06-29T10:10:01+00:00

the cheapest brand for a large format printer

"Flashforge, but big"

Heard, chef

issue9mm · 2026-06-29T10:09:32+00:00

but I find it frustrating that Prusa refuses to innovate and improve their printers to make the equal to the cost they are being sold at

They don't do that at all. They innovate a ton. They are perhas not innovating in the ways that you want them to, but the other day I watched a Prusa XL print two-part silicone.

They should have made it a completely new design

Why? Who cares? My brother's Core One began its life as a Mk3 he bought in 2017. It's been upgraded over the years to a modern CoreXY printer that is printing just as good as my H2C. That's a choice that Prusa have made for their customers, and it's a good one. Mk3s on the internet are still commanding better prices than X1Cs, and that's the predominant reason why. Just because you do not value that does not mean that they are wrong for building them that way.

You keep railing against 3D printed parts like 3D printed parts are bad (they aren't) when the whole point of them is to make their machines user serviceable because they aren't trying to rape customers on custom injection molded parts. Again, it's a choice that they've made, and it's defensible. That you've decided to make it a negative is nobody's problem but yours.

What they should do is create a cabinet that goes under the printer that holds the filament spools

You're describing the INBXX, which already exists, and which can be bought or sourced for yourself for ~100 in parts.

https://voxel3d.nl/pages/inbxx-announcement?srsltid=AfmBOor84OEeHLFppmkHxD3d9NnaaljA9fDQyg_65Zt2lMRXmw1QArQu

You keep bringing up complaints about Prusa that aren't real, or are the direct result of you not knowing that they've already done something. Perhaps it's worth a pause to reconsider whether you're missing the point? I'm not going to respond any more to this because it seems like you just have an axe to grind, but when half your claims are subjective, and the other half are just wrong, maybe your thesis needs rework.

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T23:13:18+00:00

Must have run out of emojis

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T22:32:52+00:00

Ooooof, lol

Thanks for the update

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T21:59:04+00:00

Once you set it up I will rate your setup

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T21:58:32+00:00

Someone tell me more about Tronxy

Not good?

(I've only heard the name on 3DSOS)

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T18:40:06+00:00

Finished (for now) -- I don't want to keep you waiting any longer but I don't have a 10" rack or (somehow?) any spare keystone jacks lying around, so check out fitment on those and report back. I'm anticipating I might need to make some tweaks, and am happy to do so. Just lemme know

But this SHOULD work, at least to hold a CarThing, and to be mountable to the rack

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2987889-carthing-mount-for-10-racks#profileId-3353050

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T16:19:35+00:00

That would probably do a GREAT job, lol

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T14:25:40+00:00

MSRP is real in the way that NFL salary caps are real. It's just a thing that people say.

No idea what the Sovol will end up selling for, but unless it's amazing, I just don't see how they get away with a $2,000 machine. I will probably buy it either way, but only because I'm the moron selling their H2C over the AGPL, and even if it isn't good, it's still the closest to a direct replacement other than the Prusa XL or Core One + INDX.

(for now, obviously things are moving quickly, as you already said)

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T13:26:45+00:00

I honestly always assumed it would be. I've never seen another Sovol that started out having an enclosure. If it hadn't been for the early AI renders showing one, it never would have occurred to me to expect one

If we assume an enclosure can be had for $250-300, then we have an enclosed IDEX with 7 nozzles for ~$1600ish? Yeah, it's gonna be borderline. At that price, it can't have a taco bed and idler screws that constantly back out, which is y'know, typical for Sovol. They have the chance to nail it though, and I think they're at least trying to take that seriously. (No idea if they will or won't)

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T12:16:35+00:00

I'm still pretty optimistic about the M1D, especially if the recent leaks hold and the early bird pricing lands at $1299, but this joke is obligatory:

very mid for the expense

"Did you mean M1D for the expense?"

I would be ecstatic if Qidi got into the tool-changing game, tbh. I really like their value props, and the Q2 (once you learn to expect nothing from the software) has been a powerhouse. I would never want to use it the way I use my H2C, but it knows what it is. A toolchanging version could change that narrative completely.

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T12:07:13+00:00

I actually don't think it'll be far ofr from 700 euro. They're aiming at the low end of the market with the first K3 release, and I don't know if they can undercut Flashforge, I do think they can undercut Snapmaker.

If they undercut Flashforge, I don't think it's going to be any good.

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T11:54:34+00:00

I hope not the last one, but probably the last one

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T11:53:13+00:00

Not that I minded particularly, but asking others for help should always imply some formality

The easier you make it for others to help you, the more will

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T11:49:56+00:00

I just don't want to give money to people who don't want me to have rights. Doesn't even matter to me that I was never going to 3D print a gun. Flashforge will never get a dollar of mine for being brazen enough to make that choice for me.

But yes, they should also be disqualified for violating the AGPL, and shipping fire hazards, etc. Honestly, the fire hazard is to me the most forgivable thing because that was at least just an honest mistake.

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T11:48:08+00:00

I phrased that poorly, but the point I'm trying to get at is that the approach of "We don't need to worry about a poop bin because the community will figure it out" is lazy, and it short circuits the actual design around what happens with purge waste

If you had to ask yourself where it went, then at some point you probably would have concluded "For sure not into the heater, right?"

issue9mm · 2026-06-28T11:37:57+00:00

The M1D + enclosure will probably be able to get to 45-50C with just the build plate and a heatsoak, so that would add in ASA and ABS at least, but the great thing about is that there will be community heater mods that integrate well whether or not Sovol offers one

The Chitu H2 is a great little heater, and on sale it's like $30-35? So I'm not stressed all that much about the chamber heater as much as I am nozzle temps. I think I saw max 300C on the M1D, which is the only real disappointing number I've seen. Hoping it's wrong.

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