What's on the 3D printer today Hivers

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Something rather big that's what. I got a call from a mate who has just got a new Mac Mini and very nice it is too, but he wants to mount it off the desk asked if it was possible to print a wall mount which we found on Thingiverse.

A little bit of a tall order on the Ender 3 printer bed but with a bit of tweaking the printer settings in Cura I just managed to get it to fit. The standard bed size is 220mm X 220mm as there 10mm allowance all the way around. I've increased the bed size to 230 x 230 but you run the risk of the print edges lifting because the edges of the bed run a little bit cooler, it all seems ok at the moment time will tell though as the print gets taller.

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The other issue is I'm fast running out of PLA to print. The power cut we had this evening didn't help I was about 3 hours into the print when the lights went out and the printer stopped.

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I suspect it was something to do with the storm at the time but they seem to happen all too often in the Philippines.

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But it did mean that the print had to be restarted wasting a good bit of PLA filament I can ill afford at the moment as orders are taking so long to arrive. But fingers crossed there will be enough I should know in about another 12 hours.

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Well, that's all finished with no more power cuts and enough filament to finish the print. At a guess, I've got about 20m left so not too bad.

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All fitted so another happy customer.

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What's on the 3D printer today Hivers | Ecency