The filament's a week out of the vacuum sealed bag - other than running it through the dryer to be safe, how can I tell it needs to be dried?
Will run through the guide, thanks.
I got an Ender V3 S2 a month ago to build a darksaber for my kid for Halloween. Came out looking great. No complaints. I then did a couple of upgrades (bed springs, converted to direct drive, Klipper/Mainsail rather than stock firmware/UI) and it's a lot easier to dial in bed tramming.
Now he wants a "drill sword", a project that's requiring much tighter tolerances. Things are sticking together, which is fine, I'm here for the process of adjusting settings and dialing in things like retraction and wiping and that sort of thing.
Problem is, all the calibration tests I'm doing - the retraction test built into Orca most notably, but also the pressure advance tests (tower and lines) - all seem about 90% dialed in no matter what I do. No retraction, tiny wispy lines I can wipe away with my finger. 8mm retraction at 60mm/s, same tiny wispy lines I can wipe away with my finger. Pressure advance test prints look nothing like the images on the Orca tutorial page, where there's a clear breakdown in quality at a certain point where you can measure and say, "A-ha, there's the right setting." They're all just mostly good but not perfect. But this drill sword, if it's not perfect, will seize up and not telescope correctly. I've mucked with about 15 different settings and the pre-print tests always come out stuck together when they should be free from one another.
Is this normal? Is there some safety setting that's keeping me from screwing things up?
Thanks for helping a noob out.
You get the help you pay for. If a Smart Person has a choice between taking a job in the private sector and a job in the public sector, and the public sector isn't competitive, then the people working for America are going to be the dregs that couldn't get a private sector job.
Americans should want public servants to be smart and effective, and to get those people, you have to pay them.
From the article: "It is unknown what DEFCON1 means."
It means nuclear war is happening or is about to happen.
Nuclear. Goddamned. War.
Drive these nutbars into the sea and keep them there.
My boss gave me stupid directions - stuff I knew was wrong or inefficient. I tried to convince her otherwise, she wasn't having it, and I'm in trouble if I don't do what she says. Fine, I'll follow your stupid orders, no problem. My dad taught me, "If they want a little bullshit, give 'em a little bullshit."
Then in a meeting with her and her boss, I get asked why I did the stupid thing. "Well, I was directed specifically do to that very thing."
He says to me, with her right there, "Well, you need to take responsibility for your actions."
Started applying the next day, now have a team working for me who are great, and my greatest fear is giving them stupid directions.
In Putinist Russia, government fuck YOU!
it'll really Thai any two things together, that's for sure.