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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I’ve got a neighbor whose cat is veritable feline Houdini… he gets out every so often. And usually, it’s to come over to my green house and steal carrots. (yeah, don’t ask. he doesn’t eat them. doesn’t take them home. We have no idea what he does with them.)

    Don’t ask questions. just embrace it. (I’ve gotten to catsit Sykes on a few occasions now. the old man is a blast.)








  • I’ve played with extruding my own- basically using chips from failed prints and heater cartridges in what’s basically a giant hot end.

    The problem I have is consistency of diameter. my set up was a vertical extruder using 2” black pipe that had a melt zone of around six inches before hitting a tapered out brass “heat block” that came down to the 3mm nozzle.

    It was almost impossible to maintain a consistent extrusion.

    People are playing with it more now, so it’s possible I’m missing solutions