Are you printing internal or external perimeters first?

I don’t have any underpants, just one or two pairs of jammie shorts

bc whytfnot I suppose

Oh man you should see our house at Halloween season

So I already have a dual Z setup, but since it’s a single driver for Z I just run a split cable to those two steppers, so have an open JST on that same driver. I figured that the draw wouldn’t be an issue (and even my LED’s are running off an independent 5v60a power supply that runs the wled setup, so nothing other than stock and the already extra z motor drawing power. Sounds like it might just work, hell let’s give it a shot just need to print some parts will update with result

Great answer - I’ve considered a resin printer but my use case doesn’t include any miniatures or game pieces, so I’m sticking with FDM, but if you’re after super fine detail, more than you can get with 0.2 or 0.25, then go resin but be prepared for the mess, toxicity, and other drawbacks before you make the jump

Lol - yeah once I saw where it was all going I got the lack setup for my wife’s sanity. I’m surprised I’ve been able to keep it as “tidy” as it is… though I still end up having to clean out my corner every weekend.
Definitely won’t be joining a filament of the month club, learned that lesson with cheese…so many meh cheeses

I’d ask what you’re mainly using your printer for, and what you hope the new one will do that you currently can’t.

Sat in dry box for 4h preprint and feeds from the dryer directly. Made it a super fast print (for me at least) 75mm/sec with an 0.8 nozzle. I’d printed a couple of these smaller for friends and one asked for a pencil cup sized one… but at that point in my learning it still would’ve been ~23h at this size… this one was done in 9 and for this purpose is OK

100% no reason other than testing and to see if it would work and the result. It’s surprisingly strong, less flex on this print than same w regular petg. Just for funsies

Yep! https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1388237 This one is 250% or 300% scale, I don’t remember what I did in the slicer last night lol - but it scales well, the normal size is a great toothpick holder

The rook/100 is so badass I want to build one real bad

Thank you for reassuring me amigo- running my first ‘big’ petg-cf print in your honor

It’s about 38%RH in the house, I just throw the spool in the dryer for a bit and bowden goes straight from dryer to filament sensor in the enclosure

OK perfect confirming what I thought - the have their uses but I have no interest in minis and don’t need anything more detailed than I can get at 0.12 layer height

Talk me into one! My understanding is Downsides: Mess/smell ? Upsides: Level of detail ?

I’d really love to know your thoughts haven’t been able to sell myself though - I mainly am looking for part strength or resilience, detail matters less to me

Ah I’m in NE US and we have pretty low humidity year round, I just throw the sensitive stuff in the dryer for requisite time and good so far

please don’t tell my wife

Thanks that’s very kind of you - I’m grateful that I’m a bit older and have a pretty good hobby budget, so I tend to dive deep when I get into something (vintage stereo stuff, e scooter, record collection, rare tropical plants, sea kayaking, etc) I tend to get into one or two a year and the good ones stick - the kids get into stuff too, our 15yr old has his own vintage stereo setup and record collection now but he keeps snatching my MF Doom and RTJ records so it has its downsides as well :)

I have definitely thought about it, but I really don’t have a use for one or the will to deal with the mess of resin. My understanding is that the benefit is significantly greater detail is possible but don’t know of any other upsides, and the nastiness of resin seems like a big downside. Do they do anything else better other than detail? I’ve only been in the hobby for a few months so I’m still learning about this stuff.
Thanks for your comment on the print - it’s taken me a LOT to get PETG dialed in but I can crank it really consistently at this point - aside from settings in Cura, my magic bullet was direct drive and bringing retraction way down. I could definitely get this print smoother with 0.12 or 16 layer height and going slower but I wanted to get it out quickly for the kid, this was at 90mm/s