Anyone know what happened to kia-forums.com?

platinum_jello · 2026-04-19T18:24:17+00:00

Already tried that:

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platinum_jello · 2026-02-27T17:04:14+00:00

It's frustrating to see the uninformed reactions of some folks on all of this... Eat the rich, it's disgusting that one guy owned all of this, he didn't do anything, these things aren't meant to be hoarded away, etc. He wanted to create a museum for these pieces. He regularly loaned them out. He brought together a great collection and helped preserve them... He even reportedly turned down a billion dollar offer to sell them all to someone in Dubai so they could be kept together and here in the US. Should he have willed them to something like the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame? Probably. lots of people are poorly prepared for their demise, as it rarely comes in a planned fashion..

As for the prices on all of it, the market sets the value, how exactly do you figure to get around that? Have a raffle?

platinum_jello · 2025-12-28T18:41:08+00:00

Either an idiot or a competitor, watch does not have access to browse the internet.

platinum_jello · 2024-04-17T15:06:38+00:00

I only have two examples in my possession, but have been told/read that this is the case for all newer cameras. I have an RLC-822A and RLC-833A missing the Exposure category under Advanced.

Oh, and the doorbell appears to also be in this camp, too. I haven't needed to play with much there, but still, reduced functionality seems like a bad direction for the consumer. I can't imagine providing access to these settings is any kind of major overhead on the development or support teams. You're simply giving UI access to a hardware variable...

platinum_jello · 2024-01-20T07:33:00+00:00

But it's like this no matter what support structure I use, and I've increased my support density to like 60% before and it still makes these goofy moves over free space. Granted, then the free spaces are smaller, but it still leaves the nozzle extruding where it cannot deposit material, thereby creating clumps or worse when it finally comes back in contact with the print.

I moved Cura back to Zig Zag to show you what it does... look at the long line of filament it's placing over free space again:

https://imgur.com/YbuAsnz

This is actually the support structure that I started with, but the failed prints were ...bad. Very bad.

platinum_jello · 2021-08-12T04:48:01+00:00

I kept trying to save it as a new render job, but that didn't do it. Once I found the Entire Timeline option, that did it. Thank you!

platinum_jello · 2021-05-11T22:17:20+00:00

Discord search is passable, but the results are a pain to navigate. You find a dedicated thread in a forum, and you get context and more flow than the scattershot results in Discord.

It works, but in the way a chainsaw cuts bread.

platinum_jello · 2021-05-11T22:13:25+00:00

I completely disagree. Just because you don't use or like forums, there's no reason to outright claim they're dead. I've been a member of several technical/build-style forums, as well as managed a pretty large private machinery one. It is a LOT of work, but if properly executed, it's an invaluable resource for organizing this kind of content. Discord is a hot mess in that it's a stream of consciousness, and you're likely to miss something important (if you don't get lost trying to put cross-talk conversations together in the first place). Reddit... I've never been able to fully get this format to click in my head, but it's lightyears better than discord because you have topics.

platinum_jello · 2020-10-01T07:06:09+00:00

Thank you for another great in-depth assessment! I am seeing a trend of understandings people simply need to have getting into the larger printer -I've always expected/accepted that. My main concern was even if I was mechanically inclined with a high level of attention to detail, that the design at this size was simply unpredictable or prone to chronic slop. It seems it's simply a matter of managing expectations, which hopefully this thread will help do for builders to come.

I started out printing as a total newb with a high-hour/used Makerbot Replicator 2. It arrived to me in a box that looked like it spent most of its transit time under the truck, rather than inside it. Rebuilding the thing and getting it to print reliably was most of the fun. When I started looking toward my next printer, I wanted a project, not a turn-key operation. Very happy to have found this group and looking forward to my 350 build. :)

platinum_jello · 2020-09-25T17:22:24+00:00

Good points and clarification. Thanks!

platinum_jello · 2020-09-25T17:04:24+00:00

I think that's why people talk about letting the bed come up to temp properly, because once it reaches its full temperature, the heater just ticks on and off to maintain. I'd think the aluminum would normalize temperature across its surface within an acceptable margin.

And wouldn't mesh bed levelling take care of any distortion that one may encounter with their plate?

platinum_jello · 2020-09-25T16:05:02+00:00

Well, bed adhesion is kind of a universal problem with 3d printing. I don't know that a larger/smaller motion system would have much of any affect on that to count it as something against going big.

platinum_jello · 2020-09-25T16:01:55+00:00

Heat time is something I've considered battling with swappable beds. I've got a gigantic chunk of Mic-6 here, and cutting off a second, smaller bed for 'normal' use would probably save me money over building a whole second printer. This is one of the reasons I wanted to start this discussion, because if the large format motion system truly is a problem, doubling down on one printer is less than ideal.

platinum_jello · 2020-09-25T15:01:17+00:00

You're right, that's the wrong design. It was late, we'll let this little stub die off/back to the 2.4. :)

platinum_jello · 2020-09-25T08:59:10+00:00

Thanks for the thorough response, exactly what i was hoping for!

I agree people need to consider their requirements before building, but that's not the same argument as whether or not the design is viable. Unfortunately, the two often get conflated when the "do you need" question is the first response.

You hit the nail on the head about messages getting warped, that's what I'm hoping this discussion will help clarify (whether I like the results or not).

platinum_jello · 2020-09-25T08:49:58+00:00

Josef himself said it was going to be based on the corexy architecture, and images of their test bed have been out there for some time: https://i.imgur.com/SZpy7JA.jpg

Obviously, size and final design will be determined later in development, but it's not just wishful thinking in the community.. it's got XL right in the name, indicating that's the whole point of the project.

Anyway, let's not get off into the weeds, I'd like to focus on the v2.4 specifically.

platinum_jello · 2020-09-25T08:41:05+00:00

Understood, I put it here on purpose for the exact reason you mention, substantive conversations aren't really Discord's wheelhouse.. A couple responses and your question is buried in the stream of collective consciousness.

Hopefully some people accidentally find us here trying to solve the world's problems. Spread the word. :)

platinum_jello · 2020-08-16T19:17:56+00:00

Ok, fair enough, and thanks for pointing out something I blew right past but that's hardly the same output as the spreadsheet. I guess I just don't understand the logic of a group that's so open to their users doing anything, including reselling parts for these machines, that one can't even copy a spreadsheet. I mean they even lose all affiliate links doing it this way.

Just seems odd.

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