A pre ordered a Prusa XL 2 years ago at release.
Needless to say a 1.5 years later I gave up on them. I still have a deposit a Prusa still I’ll likely use it for filament now.
@TinWhisperer get some clear nylon to do cold pulls, half a KG should be PLENTY. Cut off about 18-24in, feed it through your nozzle at 250-260C until it comes out clear. Let it cool to 50C or so. Warm it back to 110C, and start pulling on it at about 90C until it pops out of the hot end. Should be a little nipple on the very tip of it. This is the only way I’ve found to reliably ensure a properly cleaned hot end.
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^^^^^This^^^^^
I have not \had to do this for 3 years, and could not remember all the details.
Thank you @apynckel for clarifying
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Don’t throw out your poop and waste. I have ideas already going in my head already.
Made this working carabiner while I drove my daughter to school. This thing might pass the idea of sliced bread soon.
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I haven’t. I have a separate waste basket for all the filaments. I’ve only been printing pla so far, I guess I should sort the waste types. I’ve been seeing a lot of these injection molders using the waste that are really interesting.
That carabiner turned out awesome @DonP
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Have you tried anything that is threaded? I saw you had something earlier in a design phase.
Here is an interesting carabiner:
Edit: Sorry, I guess you did!
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Teaching Tech on You Tube did a video on recycling 3D filament and print waste. Used a heat press to make full size sheets of varying thickness of whatever the material was. PLA, PETG… make art, tabletops, chair seats, anything you can think of that requires a full size sheet like that.
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Putting those inside an epoxy pour?
That’s a really cool idea but I was just thinking melting down and seeing how it goes. Maybe cut a piece of metal and form a tray and heat it up outside. Not in house oven of course.
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Really cool website. I haven’t really looked around for designs. Today was first day making my own from sketch and exporting to Bambu. Besides that pipe to play around with threads. Bambu is very user friendly and happy I have been using fusion 360. The transition makes it really easy.
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There sure are a lot of plans for “things” out there in the ‘verse’, as they would say in “Firefly.”
Agreed!
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That looks great!
I need to stop clicking on this thread. You guys are a bad influence. 
Looks like a ton of fun. Maybe need to consider the mini with a few less add-ons.
Hard because a couple of my current ideas have both plasma and 3d printed parts.
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With 25% down and four interest free payments of
99.75 you can have a a1 with the ams lite through PayPal.
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My little bed slinger has been running 24/7 the last few days. I have 6hr poop basket going now but figured I would share a quick tip for others getting started.
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Heres a gift for my 72 years old father inlaw.He is a big fan of Kentucky basketball and Trump.He probably hasn’t played marbles for many years now but i thought the marble bag off the reese hitch would be nostalgic.
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Fyi yeggi.com will search many of the popular download sites all in one search.
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I printed a replacement part to fix my kids Spider-Man. It has a ball socket at the top that I made a heavy relief for so I could snap the ball in from the torso of Spider-Man. Then there was some grooves that clip the pelvis pieces together on the lower half.
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Literally a toy making machine lol.If i had these machines when i was a kid i wouldnt have had to saw my Lego in half to have the correct sizes to make what i had in my head at the time.
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Nice to see dad always being a hero!!
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@Phillipw FIFY
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