So ... 3d Printers....

[yotsuya]

Btw, on the Anet FB Group, most people are saying to switch to Marlin. They said even the Skynet developer recommends this.

[Slippyblade]

From what I've been able to piece together, Skynet was a fork of Marlin back in the day, but they recently re-absorbed into the main Marlin codebase.

[Nephasth]

Star Wars instead of Star Trek... 

[yotsuya]

[pbj]

Those are pretty cool.  They lack a hidden pacman, though.

[yotsuya]

Gonna hit them with some spray glitter for that wonderland effect!

[05SRT4]

did you design them or just pick them up on thingy-verse?

[Slippyblade]

That's so cool!  I am totally doing that.

[yotsuya]

I grabbed them from Thingiverse. No time for love, Dr. Jones!

I’ve been printing them all week.

[Malenko]

got my carts from Haruman

[Slippyblade]

That gold one is just so sexy.  You gonna print some labels to go on those?  Make em look faux real?

[Malenko]

That gold one is just so sexy.  You gonna print some labels to go on those?  Make em look faux real?

yeap, Im just torn on repro-ing the real lable, or making Parody labels.  Gonna get them professionalyl printed too, no lame sticker paper.

Haruman hand painted the gold one for me.

[yotsuya]

[Titchgamer]

Well I treated myself to a big Steel ruler last night.
And confirmed my glass is bowed...



So someone suggested taking it off to prove its the glass...



So yeah need some new glass I think.

[Vigo]

can you upgrade it to an aluminum bed or some nice borosilicate tempered glass?

[yotsuya]

[Titchgamer]

can you upgrade it to an aluminum bed or some nice borosilicate tempered glass?

The heat bed is Aly but is slightly bowed also.
But its only thin so no real surprise there.

I have emailed a local glazer with my requirements see what they suggest.

[yotsuya]

You should complain, Titch. That’s too new to have a bad bed already. If it shipped like that, they should at least make it right. Get on your lappy and fire off an email ASAP.

[yotsuya]

And overnight I printed another cell phone holder, this time for my desk at work.

[05SRT4]

You should complain, Titch. That’s too new to have a bad bed already. If it shipped like that, they should at least make it right. Get on your lappy and fire off an email ASAP.

I agree, reading online the ones that have said something ended up getting replacements.

I ended up swapping the glass plate with another one I had. The one Creality sent had to many deviations. The Heated bed actually wasn't that bad. Running the Dial thingy I got from Harbor Freight and a custom gcode I made I was able to compare everything. The heated bed never went over 5 microns (.005) The Mic 6 Casting plate I got was the same, although there wasn't as much change throughout the entire plate. just a couple areas went near the .005 tolerance it stated.

Doing the test on the glass Creality sent the dial was all over the place. Some areas dipped in and out of the 10-15 microns, no consistency at all. This was tested on both sides. 10-15 microns doesn't seem like a lot but you could see it in the bottom and top layers.

Titch one thing you can do to try to help is change the first layer thickness maybe to 150-200% this will put down a fat layer that will help fill in those dips.

[Titchgamer]

The bed itself is not that bad tbh and can be straightened out using the adjusters.
I suspect a good piece of glass would pull it straight also.
Like I said its only thin Aly.

But the glass is way to far out to do anything with so ile just buy a nice new flat piece somewhere local and roll with it.

Just gutted my £20 sheet of PEI is wasted

[Howard_Casto]

Somebody wrote a little article about our baby. 

https://hackaday.com/2017/12/08/how-cheap-can-a-3d-printer-get-the-anet-a8/#more-284994

I'm still trying to figure out how it took this guy 12 hours to assemble.... maybe he's disabled or something but I got mine together in about an hour and a half. 

[JDFan]

I'm still trying to figure out how it took this guy 12 hours to assemble.... maybe he's disabled or something but I got mine together in about an hour and a half.

Well he does say :

Just peeling the protective film off of the many, many laser-cut acrylic frame parts took me two and a half hours one evening

[Howard_Casto]

Yeah I got a chuckle out of that.... there aren't that many parts, and you are really supposed to peel those off (except for connecting points) after it is assembled so you don't scratch anything.  I mean the way the bolts and nuts attach via those cut slots is a pain in the butt, but once you get the hang of it, it isn't that bad.  Being honest it probably took a little longer than an hour and a half as the final assembly videos I watched were a little sketchy and I had to go back and re-watch them a couple of times, but certainly not for 12 hours. 

[pbj]

This was a big hit today.

 

[05SRT4]

  Waiting to see the pirate......

[Howard_Casto]

Somebody print out a Pikachu Taser cover. 

[jdbailey1206]

Nice brah.

[Titchgamer]

My new boscolite glass came the other day and instant difference noticed!

First few layers have stuck, surface temp more uniform and my first test run to last more than 2 mins is still going well!

Some separation ive noticed on the base layer but sod it ime printing!!!

[05SRT4]

So I ended up taking my glass off, now i just print straight onto the heated bed plate and a sheet of PEI.

Looking good though Titch

[Slippyblade]

I'm loving glass.  I'm just using plain window glass from Home Depot.  Single coat of hair spray and it's golden.

[Titchgamer]

Ime finding the adhesion to the glass bed is excellent!

A wipe of alcohol and warm to 50 and it still like superglue until the bed cools.

Printed 4 of these today.

[yotsuya]

PEI 4 Lyf bitfhes

[pbj]

Could someone send me whatever nerd files print those nerdy Star Wars snowflakes?  I got glib at a party.

[Titchgamer]

My first non printer part ive managed to print:



Settings need tweaking a little but getting there!!

[HaRuMaN]

I printed that thing too:

[yotsuya]

Could someone send me whatever nerd files print those nerdy Star Wars snowflakes?  I got glib at a party.

Start here:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1186315

[pbj]

Thanks, bro.

[yotsuya]

Thanks, bro.

[Titchgamer]

I printed that thing too:

Ha cool! Yeah its a ace model!
Is that full size? I scaled mine down to 25% to test it first.

Out of interest is it the light or are his front teeth slightly moulded together?
Mine did but I was wondering if it was because of the scale down.