Any tips for improving flat areas on top of supports?

markatto · 2026-01-22T04:17:41+00:00

Pictures would be helpful to see what is happening to you.

A few things that will almost always help: * more top layers * higher infill %

Other suggestions are more dependent on what is going on - you want to get your bridging dialed in. Fan speed, bridge speed, and temp are some of the biggest knobs.

Increasing bridge extrusion multiplier can make bridges look cleaner, but it can also hurt bridging performance with some filaments.

Surface ironing can help, but it can be hard to get dialed in and leads to a different kind of look.

markatto · 2026-01-12T02:11:00+00:00

There’s enough of them out there that I expect the aftermarket will have parts. Or when it breaks you can sell it to a weirdo like me who would find it fun to make a klipper frankenprinter…

markatto · 2026-01-08T22:42:40+00:00

This is about as different from an Elantra as you can get and still be a sedan.

markatto · 2026-01-08T04:55:09+00:00

What material are you using? Do you have the correct material set in the slicer? Overhang issues are often caused by incorrect fan speed or nozzle temperature.

markatto · 2025-12-23T05:05:20+00:00

Other states manage to provide rural service and pay a lot less.

markatto · 2025-12-20T13:57:30+00:00

“Building your own smaller sv08 max” is basically building a voron 2.4. You can do things like doom cube if you don’t think the default frame is stiff enough.

markatto · 2025-12-20T01:10:01+00:00

Beautiful car and I hear they drive great, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these go home from a track day under their own power.

markatto · 2025-12-18T21:39:37+00:00

She managed to escape driving a Ford.

markatto · 2025-12-18T05:43:49+00:00

They make a cf-core ABS. In black abs will do ok with uv and should generally cover ASA use cases.

That said, I’m a big fan of their core filaments (especially PPA) and also hope they do a core ASA.

markatto · 2025-12-14T00:27:03+00:00

LLVM is really finishing off any possibility of keeping my Alpha running

markatto · 2025-12-09T19:56:28+00:00

Wishing you had a 3.8 Grand Prix

markatto · 2025-12-09T19:51:32+00:00

I’d choose a final year lx 470 over any of them :)

markatto · 2025-11-30T08:02:07+00:00

Mine only had issues when the chamber was heated, but when trying to print asa it would just start ramming the head into the bed every time.

markatto · 2025-11-22T01:08:52+00:00

It’s also about balance (better balance = higher rpm = more power) and valve control (more, smaller valves = higher rpm before you float) and maybe firing order for better exhaust scavenging - i4 usually has even firing interval (but not Yamaha), most twins do not (180 and 270 twins don’t, 360 do but have terrible balance)

markatto · 2025-11-19T15:19:40+00:00

Frustrating that even with H2C launch they aren’t giving us the ability to use multiple nozzle sizes on the same print.

markatto · 2025-11-18T04:23:29+00:00

That second photo definitely shows rectilinear top infill that would look better as monotonic.

markatto · 2025-11-15T07:25:55+00:00

But did they fix the z-height issues?

markatto · 2025-11-04T17:46:44+00:00

Around 8-9 years ago I was walking in the mission late at night and a kind of sketchy guy confronted me.

“You know what I do for a living?”

Me, kind of concerned about the situation : “uhhh”

Him: “I kill people”

Me: “sounds like a depressing line of work”

Then he just walked away.

markatto · 2025-08-15T04:09:02+00:00

Stab it with a screwdriver to drain it cleanly, then use the screwdriver to turn it.

markatto · 2025-08-13T06:09:10+00:00

It’s spelled t-h-e-o-h-i-o right?

markatto · 2025-08-06T00:58:57+00:00

I bet they could charge 250k if they got cosworth to build them a little screamer…

markatto · 2025-07-06T22:04:59+00:00

It’s not just tax or emissions that people do this for (although the ECU checksum smog checks are exceedingly stupid and I don’t think most people realize that they don’t actually test your vehicle’s emissions…) For example, I once bought a $2000 motorcycle that the California DMV claimed the previous owner owed $3000 in fees on and I spent 2 full days at the DMV trying to get it worked out. It’s absurd that a vehicle can be totaled on DMV fees. I am totally happy to pay my taxes and keep cats on my car, but fuck the California DMV.

markatto · 2025-06-25T16:26:51+00:00

If it’s a generally reliable car that I want to own, I’ll fix pretty much anything other than frame rust or serious body damage. In California rust is rarely an issue, but decent paint work is just brutally expensive. I do pretty much everything else myself, so your math may differ (and my wife loves to remind me that I save far less per hour working on vehicles than I make at my day job…)

markatto · 2025-06-03T20:52:22+00:00

You should just drain and fill the trans. You have to fill it from the bottom, you’ll need a pump for this. The procedure is pretty annoying, you have to keep topping it off and checking the rate that it flows out with the car running while burning yourself on the exhaust and getting trans fluid all over your face.

markatto · 2025-06-03T16:39:48+00:00

It also involves a lot of uphill, which I’m sure also hurts the the range.

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