CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Printing PA, how it started and how it's going now.Lessons learned: mess around with temperature, slow down and bake the filament in a dryer at full blast.#3dprinting

@eff Is this being pushed by AI companies trying to make sure there's something out there that "requires" AI to even pretend to accomplish?AI is going to get it wrong, but there's really no other way that anyone is even going to come up with anything at all that even tries to address these stupid laws, like WA already passed.

Industrial FFF 3D printers are losing resale value rapidly, with used equipment now selling for near-zero prices. What was once a promising production technology faces a brutal market reality as the industry matures. https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/used-industrial-fff-printers-may-be-hitting-a-brutal-new-reality-near-zero-resale-value #3Dprint #3Dprinting #Industrial

@kbob That's actually very creative! I have this boxful of Snapmaker head cleaning towers and I've been thinking of making some kind of an abstract art work out of them!

@apzpins OMG, I love this!

This purge tower looks like a birthday cake. #3dprinting

I'm contemplating on using Prusament PA-CF for the final version. I may have to play around with it to see how much shrinkage happens in print. The FreeCAD model is measured as precisely as possible and the idea was to handle the shrinking in slicer. ASA has so far been pretty much what went into the slicer so this project will probably end up being more of a learning experience than my average pinball parts creations.ASA was surprisingly durable. I bolted one of the test prints onto a board and gave it some hammer to see how it fails. Typical parts I make never get these kinds of forces and I was pleased to see it needed some real effort to break this one, possibly so much that the ASA version would take normal use as well.I think I'll leave the ASA version in mine and see how long it survives.

@saustrup neat!