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Bluewing

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  • Are there other options than Prusa/BambuLab?

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  • The only other one I know of, outside of a dual exturder Voron, is the Qidi I-Fast IDEX printer. It's expensive, somewhat over $1000, but it has a lot of goodies too. 350C extruder, heat chamber, and a decent sized build volume to print just about any engineering filament.

  • Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers

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  • I got my A1 mini just a month or two before this current unpleasantness, so I was taken unaware. But since I've never been interested in using much of the Bambu software ecosystem, switching to LAN mode a month ago has been no big deal for me because I was leaning that direction anyway. And my current firmware version, 1.04 works well so no need to up grade. Nor is Makers World all that important to me.

    But there are so many users that just don't care and will swallow what ever dreck Bambu feeds them.

  • Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers

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  • Roll back the firmware to a version that worked. You still can do that.

  • Innövative sölutiön

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  • Those machines are referred to as slitters. I designed and built 2 for 3M Abrasive division back in the 1990's. Talk about a process that involves less than reliable hardware, (I never met an air bar or pneumatic web sensor I didn't hate), and enough wishful thinking to achieve the speeds 3M wanted them to run at that would make an Alchemist proud. I was constantly amazed that my designs even worked at all.

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  • Chocks are always fashionable, (and one should always be fashionable), but operators sometimes don't bother during a quick move. And those rolls often get a flat spot due to the weight when you set them down so they are hard to get rolling on a level surface.

    Even large rolls rolls of sheet steel don't roll easily on a level floor.

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  • As someone who spent a few years teaching math, this would be a cause for celebration! I would have had a classroom pizza party the next day. This is creative usage of problem solving math that I could only dream about a classroom of students could come up with.

  • I hate cast iron so I am in favour of this.

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  • Look at Ol' Diamond Jim over there with his $100 skillets!

    I got 2 cast iron frying pans, a 6qt dutch oven, a 2 burner flat iron, and one cast iron 2qt kettle. I ain't got $50 into the whole lot of them. Vintage cast iron is cheap because it will last for multiple generations and there is lots of it floating around to be had on the cheap.

    And if you ain't got 5 minutes to clean a cast iron frying pan, then no $10 nuclear glow int the dark Walmart special is going to do any better in your care. I highly recommend you find someone to cook for you. Before you give yourself food poisoning.

  • I hate cast iron so I am in favour of this.

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  • Unless there is a literal hole rusted through it, grab some sand paper and sand the rust off of it. It's just iron. I've done it many times to rescue an old skillet or Dutch Oven.

    Short of taking a sledgehammer to it, it's nigh on impossible to destroy cast iron cooking pans.