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  1. chaos_engineer

    I CAN have nice things, right?!?! Pulling the trigger on a Bambu Lab H2S

    Can you print some anti vibration feet for it to help with the shaking? Use your old printer and run them in TPU. See if that helps. Even on my little (by comparison) A5M, the feet made a big difference. I notice in the vid that @Tony4597 shared, 2 of those printers also have what looks to be...
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    I CAN have nice things, right?!?! Pulling the trigger on a Bambu Lab H2S

    Are you close to a Microcenter? Phx store shows them as sold out, but they do stock them.
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    I CAN have nice things, right?!?! Pulling the trigger on a Bambu Lab H2S

    Can confirm, H2S is not in the current stable build of Orca
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    I CAN have nice things, right?!?! Pulling the trigger on a Bambu Lab H2S

    I've been having pretty good success with PLA+. Seems to fail less, stick better, and print smoother (so far).
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    I CAN have nice things, right?!?! Pulling the trigger on a Bambu Lab H2S

    You can still do that, you're just going to have little offsets in heat/purge times going between, say, PLA and PTEG (220c and 240c nozzle temps for example). That's more or less how they all work to some extent with a single head. It's one of the main reasons I have shied away from Bambu. I...
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    I CAN have nice things, right?!?! Pulling the trigger on a Bambu Lab H2S

    I'm looking at a multi setup too. I was actually ready to pull the trigger on Flashforge's AD5X, (and the wifey is on board). BUT. I'm going to hold off just a bit and see how this looks when it releases https://www.snapmaker.com/en-US/snapmaker-u1 It's more than double the cost of the AD5X...
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    Elegoo Centauri Carbon - REALLY Tempted To Buy

    I mean, at that price, why not both? :p
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    Flashforge Adventurer 5M (AKA "The Mrs. Left me unsupervised with an amazon order")

    Not really. The side panels are affixed with 3 little button magnets at the top so they easily come off for access. Having the enclosure on cuts down a bit on the noise, which can be distracting since it's in my office and 8 feet from my desk. It will also help keep dust out of the printer...
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    Flashforge Adventurer 5M (AKA "The Mrs. Left me unsupervised with an amazon order")

    Ordered the enclosure kit. Only did about 80% of it for now. I have to add about 7" of height to the top of the shelf to get the head frame and top cover on it, and right now it's not all that critical. I'm not printing ABS or anything really temp sensitive right now to NEED it fully enclosed, I...
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    Smart Home Enthusiasts - Home Automation - Home Assistant Zigbee Z-Wave Matter etc.

    Unless you have a big spool of cat6 sitting around that "fell off the tech's truck". Then use cat6 :)
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    Smart Home Enthusiasts - Home Automation - Home Assistant Zigbee Z-Wave Matter etc.

    You're going deeper down this rabbit hole than I have. We are using home automation capable devices but I have not bothered to link them up yet. Ecobee thermostats will work with google home. Ring devices will too but there are some middlemen you need to make them sync because Ring's owned by...
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    Flashforge Adventurer 5M (AKA "The Mrs. Left me unsupervised with an amazon order")

    I switched to a different plate, it wasn't really successful so I went back to the textured PEI plate. I also added some LED strip lights just above the printer so I have better vis while printing. The 5M doesn't have any lights included. So for that experiment, lights==good. Alternate...
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    Flashforge Adventurer 5M (AKA "The Mrs. Left me unsupervised with an amazon order")

    How not to change filament. On the AD5M, to change, you clip the filament at the top of the extruder, run the last bit through as you add your new filament, and carry on. Well, I clipped wrong. I spent several hours trying to chase down the problem thinking I had messed up settings or...
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    Flashforge Adventurer 5M (AKA "The Mrs. Left me unsupervised with an amazon order")

    Bed adhesion on the textured plate has been a bit of a pain. Some filament works fine, some filament loses adhesion halfway through a print. Spent the weekend methodically working through various permutations to try and find a "one size fits all" solution with the included flashprint slicer...
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    Flashforge Adventurer 5M (AKA "The Mrs. Left me unsupervised with an amazon order")

    I've had a Monoprice Voxel/Flashforge Adventurer 3 for a few months that was gifted to me by a buddy. Great printer, but it was slow and really only liked PLA. So I've been kinda looking for a faster upgrade that could handle other filament types. Found a great deal the on the Adventurer 5M...
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    What Are You Printing Today?

    One of my other hobbies is painting, and I do paint pours quite a bit. I printed some split cups to use for pouring. Each section of the cup is a different color (or colors) and then you pour them together to get the flowy, organic patterns typical of acrylic pours. Then, you pour a nice single...
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    What Are You Printing Today?

    Got the Mrs. a new nerd car. Oddly, a sunglasses holder was not among the bells and whistles it came equipped with. So I made one out of ABS, lined it with some "felt" padding, and stuck it on with double side high temp 3M tape. My ABS kung-fu needs work. This took 3 tries fiddling with temp...
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    What Are You Printing Today?

    I think it was my garbage lenovo laptop. I needed to have it re-imaged for Windows 11 a couple of weeks ago and pulled some strings to just get a new one instead. Hasn't happened since.
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