Topic

3d printing

12 videos. Ranked by independent recommendations, not by views.

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   1 HOW MUCH abrasive filaments damage your nozzle!

   CNC Kitchen 4 people · 5 months · since May 2019

   CNC Kitchen measures how abrasive filaments wear printer nozzles, cited for judging wear by nozzle length and for choosing a hardened nozzle.

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   2 3D printing guides - Calibrating your extruder

   Made with Layers (Thomas Sanladerer) 5 people · 4 months · since Jan 2016

   Shows how to test and set extruder steps per mm; people point to it when fixing over-extrusion, clicking extruders and rough first layers.

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   3 Autoleveling on 3D printers: 9 myths and 12 sensors tested!

   Made with Layers (Thomas Sanladerer) 3 people · 5 months · since Mar 2018

   Thomas Sanladerer tests twelve bed-levelling sensors, cited for finding that inductive probes are the most precise but depend heavily on the bed material.

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   4 3D printing guides: Setting up auto bed tramming leveling tilt compensation!

   Made with Layers (Thomas Sanladerer) 4 people · 3 months · since Feb 2016

   A guide to setting up auto bed levelling on a 3D printer with an inductive sensor, including how to drop its 12 volt output safely for an Arduino input.

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   5 3D printing guides: Calibration and why you might be doing it wrong

   Made with Layers (Thomas Sanladerer) 4 people · 4 months · since Jul 2016

   Argues that X and Y steps should come from the hardware maths rather than test prints, while extruder steps do need calibrating; cited often in 3D printing answers.

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   6 Filaween complete playlist

   Made with Layers (Thomas Sanladerer) 3 people · 3 months · since Jul 2017

   Thomas Sanladerer's series tests and compares 3D printing filaments with a methodical approach; recommended for judging the strength and flexibility of brands and designing your own tests.

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   7 Worst Case Scenario with a Acetone Vapor Bath

   Neil Underwood 3 people · 4 months · since Jan 2016

   Shows what happens when an acetone vapour bath catches fire, cited to argue that the fire risk of ABS smoothing is smaller than often assumed.

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   8 Fixing a Filament Flow Problem on CR-10 mini, CR-10 or Creality Ender 3

   CHEP 3 people · 3 months · since Mar 2019

   CHEP traces under-extrusion on Creality printers to the PTFE tube slipping in the hotend coupler and shows the fix; recommended for Ender 3 flow problems.

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   9 Calibrating Z-Offset With A BLTouch Bed Levelling Probe

   3D Maker Noob 3 people · 3 months · since Jul 2018

   Calibrates Z-offset with a BLTouch probe using Pronterface commands, so the method works across printers and firmware; recommended in 3D printing help threads.

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    10 Ender 3 BLtouch vanilla Marlin guide

    Teaching Tech 3 people · 3 months · since Feb 2019

    Teaching Tech walks through fitting a BLTouch to an Ender 3 and configuring vanilla Marlin firmware; widely followed, including for clone probes on other printers.

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    11 Raspberry Pi Mini NES Classic Console

    daftmike 3 people · 3 months · since Jul 2016

    A maker's short demo of a scaled down NES style Raspberry Pi console, cited as an example of a clean 3D printed case with a working reset button.

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    12 Can You Recycle Failed 3D Prints?

    Make Anything 3 people · 3 months · since Nov 2017

    Experiments with turning failed 3D prints into reusable plastic; cited as an example in recycling threads rather than as a proven method.