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3D

So much fun

A little fiddly to get the bed level (needed it almost every print at first, but I think the springs have stabilized), but the fancy 3v2 plate is nicely sticky and doesn’t appear to need any tape or adhesive tricks.

Ender sample filament worked fine (but not great)

Hatchbox PLA ends up a little shinier and feels a bit nicer

Adafruit Ruiz Brothers stands for Pi Zero and PyPortal are nice and printed really well.

Made some spaghetti with a really long skinny print, but overall success rate has been really good. The long skinny filament holder printed fine with a wide sticky raft to hold it down to the bed.

Found a pegboard hanger for my cheap calipers (another thing I’ve owned for a while but didn’t really have a use for until now), but it was just two pressure-fit pegs that didn’t hold at all. I cut the pegs off of a good model and stuck them on the caliper holder, and it worked pretty well. One curved upper peg slid during the print, maybe it wasn’t flush to the z-axis. I think I could have aligned things a little better, but it holds great with just three working pegs.


Dyson tool hanger worked well

Kids dyson toy hanger was pretty good, might be better if the flanges overhung the rest of the cylinder, at the expense of longer print and lots of supports.

Dyson tool hanger scaled down to 76% is a snug but working fit for the toy tool.

OpenSCAD and my DuPont holder with multiple lengths, and my long length that didn’t fit on my bed.