Intersectional feminist. #3dprinting catboy. Haskells occasionally. Prusa critic. On the spectrum. He/him.

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@koz@chaos.social avatar koz , to random

It has been 0 days since I found a resin trap in an OPR model.

I seriously don't understand what's up with their QC process. This is, no joke, the fourth time I've had this problem. What is their bizarre fixation with having people print resin grenades?

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@koz@chaos.social avatar koz , to random

Ugh, just had another refillable spray bottle fail. Typical americanesium. Just goes to show, if you buy USA-made things, they're not going to be as good as something decent and name-brand. Imports suck.

... that was sarcasm and satire, in case you missed it. But no, seriously, just had another refillable spray bottle fail in just a few months.

@koz@chaos.social avatar koz , to random

Recently, I got my hands on a free Ender 5 Pro, whose Z axis was so bent it looked like a forklift drove over it. Because of that, I can finally do an build!

This thread will be an extended sojourn into this project, where I will aim to use random workshop junk whenever possible. I won't make this a hard rule, but I'll try and avoid buying new if I can.

First things first, gotta strip down the frame! So much useless junk there.

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An Ender 5 frame, without the electronics box at the bottom, the display, the front top Y cross-beam, or the Bowden extruder. Some cabling from the extruder loom is hanging down into the middle of the frame at the bottom.
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@3dprinting Been a few days without an update, but not because I haven't been working! I've since mounted the X rail, (most of) the X tensioner, and even started on the toolhead. However, I'm bottlenecked right now, because the belt clamps don't align with the belt path. The fix for this should be easy enough, but I've been a bit stalled because of that.

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Bottom-front view of a modified EVA toolhead on a modified Ender 5 frame. There is an E3D V6 hotend mounted into the toolhead, with a black pair of cooling ducts either side. The hotend has a bright orange silicone sock. The cowl of the toolhead is made of a bright red plastic. You can see part of an extruder at the top, as well as a 4010 cooling fan inside the cowl.
Front view of a modified EVA toolhead on a modified Ender 5 frame. There is a modified K1 extruder mounted to the top, and a 4010 fan inside the cowl. You can make out some black cooling ducts and a little bit of bright orange silicone sock on the hotend, though the hotend itself isn't visible. All the printed parts (apart from the ducts) are made of a bright red plastic.
Top-side view of a modified EVA toolhead on a modified Ender 5 frame. There is visible misalignment between the belt clamp mounts and the channel of the 2020 extrusion where the belts are meant to run. An extruder, a hotend, and a 4010 hotend fan are mounted into the EVA, but there are multiple holes with brass heatsets in them still visible. All the parts (other than the ducts) are printed out of a bright red plastic.

Top-side view of a modified EVA toolhead on a modified Ender 5 frame. There is visible misalignment between the belt clamp mounts and the channel of the 2020 extrusion where the belts are meant to run. An extruder, a hotend, and a 4010 hotend fan are mounted into the EVA, but there are multiple holes with brass heatsets in them still visible. All the parts (other than the ducts) are printed out of a bright red plastic.
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    koz OP ,
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    @3dprinting The observant members of the audience are probably yelling something like 'WHERE ARE THE CAT EARS KOZ', which is a fair question. I'll definitely have some, but I'm not 100% sure if this cowl design is the one I'm going for. To save myself potentially re-doing a bunch of work, I'll first figure out how all the parts fit, and then remix as appropriate.

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