This could also be caused by belts being too tight, as they may cause motors to skip steps.

Probably loose belts, but it’s important to not have them too tight. They should be snug, but you should also be able to squeeze and flex the belts without a lot of effort.

Is this one of the “team building” songs they make you sing at MS?

“You pay me to do what I do, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

simple. fire the asshole.

yeah, that’s pretty messed up. you should never cross spiders with teddy bears.

you probably offended u/Spez on his alt account .

and that is why standard sizes exist. The solution then, is to get every one on standardized sizing so the parts work.

The problems are that now somebody needs to have and maintain a printer. (I presume FDM, but resin or something would be more useful.) even then, the production is limited, and you’re still having to source filament or whatever, as well as the parts necessary to maintain it. These parts are all more complicated than PVC pipe fittings are. (and depending on where we’re talking, may not even be available for a variety of reasons.)

and when the part fails (as all things eventually do,) you’re going to be right back where you started. You might be able to get another custom part printed. if the guy happens to still be around and availible.

Granted, the people running the study or setting up the open source fittings probably don’t have the money to encourage people to replace their plumbing, but that’s the solution that won’t see us right back at the problem in a few years. or less.

The researchers believe using a parametric-driven method for local, on-demand 3D printing of customized fittings will unlock more efficient water management.

there’s a whole lot of buzzwords there. if the current system can’t be fixed becuse there’s no parts (pipe fitting, and pipes,) to replace the leaky bits, then how exactly do you expect them to source a 3 d printer and filament? More to the point… FDM prints themselves are prone to leaking, from a myriad of issues.

I don’t think 3d printing the pipe fittings is the answer here.

that said, it’s cool and fun all the same.

theoretically? yes.

several problems.

Food dehydrators typically apply heat as well, and sometimes significantly higher than a filament dryer.

Then there’s the cleaning and bacterial contamiation issues- food dehydrators are made to be easily cleaned so as to prevent bacteria doing nasty things to you.

Then there’s the various resins and solvents that sometimes off gas becoming toxic.

Microplastics is far down the list if you’re desperate, but it’s there too.

but otherwise, they’re still basically the same device A heater (maybe) pushing warm(ish) air over something.

reverse engineering a solution isn’t as easy as just a few pictures. we would basically need physical access to replicate the critical dimensions and then feed it into something, print the test fit pieces and double checking fit before coming to a final design.

you’re unlikely to find an .stl beause basically every laptop is going to be different. This really is something you need to design yourself.

If it ain’t broke… maintain it.

plenty of us saw this coming.

it’s why we don’t have bambus.

It’s a good flick, I enjoyed it

If you’re an avid Asimov fan, you should know it’s only loosely related to the iRobot stories.

The existence of rainbow filament doesn’t negate what I said.

Especially considering, that making it yourself would allow you to customize the pattern significantly.

I prefer the somewhat more random nature of the homemade version. (Length/size of the color bands, which colors/filaments, order and patterning.)

You’ll find in life there are frequently many paths to the same ends.

So?

The way around that is milling in fins on either end, this would basically act like a heat break between the hot and cold ends of a printer.

Or just load the thing and then turn it on. It heats up, melts the plastic and then immediately shuts off. It would take 30 seconds, maybe.

The only reason practical engineering is more fun than over engineering is that things actually work.

But, eh, over engineering things is fun too- at least as a thought problem. If OP thinks some leftover Bowden tubing is too expensive, though… it’s only a thought problem…

If you could get economies of scale working, you might be able to hawk it on Amazon for 20 bucks, though. (Not that I’d ever… that sounds like a desk fire waiting to happen…)

• Benchy approves.

So, hypothetically, could you use a ball end mill with a 1.75mm diameter? Then mill the channel across two halves?

Basically, something like a halved heater block. Put a cartridge heater on one side, thermistor on the other, take it up to a melt temp and shut off. (Maybe add some cooling fins beyond the intended melt zone?)

Also, have regrets because this is more expensive than the boden tube method.

It can also be used to make rainbow-patterned prints without a gazillion color changes.