I for one appreciate the different angle. I like the thought that the beauty is so accessible to town.
Hey sounds great! You've made a good choice. If/when you have any issues pop up that you need a quick solution to, I'll be around :)
So you can get an Ender or similar printer for $100-200 and it would mostly work out of the box, but there is often a huge amount of troubleshooting that follows. I got a 3D printer originally to try to earn extra revenue but never ended up selling anything because the hobby took over for me. I spent hours learning how it works and hundreds replacing parts (trying to perfect my machine, not at all necessary). It's a bit of an investment of time and money but you may find that you end up enjoying it and using it beyond the scope of your current project. It's definitely something that takes a lot of commitment to learn unless you have a lot of money you're willing to invest towards a more no-issue printer like a Prusa.
It looks like there are a ton of makerspaces in Seattle. If you have the time, you can actually often volunteer to use the machines for free. And it would give you the ability to use other machines there, like laser cutters. I actually also volunteer about a couple hours north of you at the bham makerspace. If you happen to be in the area and want help printing stuff -- or you decide to get a printer and you want help learning how to do it, you should hit me up! I'm super passionate about it and I would be happy to give you advice or help out. :)
I love the texture, contrast, and quiet of this photo. The variety of the cobblestones is just so pleasing. I especially love the how you can faintly see the sky in the background. It might not have been intentional but it really makes you feel like you're there.
Nice design!! Also love to see the interactions you're doling out. Keeps the community alive. You seem like a nice person!
Not the person you replied to, but the PNW (OR, WA, and BC Canada) has some fantastic tap water. Seriously the best.
Absolutely fantastic.
This has so many lovely shades of blue 💙
Don't matter how far you walk if you start pointed in the wrong direction. :p
I'm ashamed to admit I do the same thing!! Both of those. Lol. If I'm putting out a bunch of boxes in the recycling I always worry people will think I've got valuables or something nice and target me. Also identity theft is no joke. It's annoying that credit card companies send so much semi-sensitive stuff via mail.
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Changing the nozzle isn't hard, you just have to be careful. All you have to do is heat up the hotend, hold the heater block with a wrench, and use another wrench to unscrew the nozzle (you might've gotten one with your printer for this). Holding the heater block is mostly just important imo so that the torque doesn't misalign other parts in your hotend. Remember that if you're facing down, then screwing directions are reversed. So you would unscrew the nozzle clockwise (righty loosey).
After you get the nozzle off, I would push some filament through the top to get your clog out. Then you can put the same nozzle back on. The main time you would need to replace it is if you're consistently having issues even after that or you've been using it for a while (the hole gets worn through bigger over time). You can also look into doing a 'cold pull' to get out clogs.
Of course your extruder would still work fine if you didn't have anything in it because it's only jamming due to trying to push something through a clog :p You have 2 zones in a hotend: the cold end (radiator) and hot end (heater block). Sometimes a clog can happen because of heat creep, where a bit of hot melted filament gets retracted up into the cold zone and resolidifies there, blocking the passage.