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Can anyone ID this toolhead for me?

Can anyone ID this toolhead for me?

It's on an LDO 2.4 build that I'm thinking about purchasing off marketplace. That looks like an orbiter extruder and it's a nighthawk board, but that's all I know.

u/_theZincSaucier_ — 12 days ago

I was wrong YET AGAIN about PETG

I made this post a while back about how a positive experince with a roll of Bambu PETG HF made me enjoy the filament again after hating a roll of glittery PETG I bought from oveture.

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1szm9qn/im_wrong_about_petg/

Well, I'm here again to admit that I was wrong AGAIN. I'm an idiot and simply wasn't following the manufacturer's guidelines. I've been spoiled by new formulas of PETG that all state that you can print at ~200 mm/s. This was true for Bambu PETG HF and a roll of new formula oveture blue that I bought a while back. So when I got this glitter PETG, I figured it was more of the same. WRONG!!!!!!!!!! I was reading a sweet guide on printing transluscent PETG when I came across the specification that it ought to be printed at ~40mm/s.

"That's really slow..." I thought, then I thought twice.

I went online and low and behold, the glitter roll I bought also requires print speeds between 30-50 mm/s. I was printing at ~200mm/s!!

So, I set up a simple print with the speeds dialed down to 40mm/s. I'm currently 1 hour with no blemishes visible yet. I have no idea why slowing the print was so effective, but it was.

Dunning-kruger effect at it again!

Edit: to be clear, I was initially wrong that all PETG sucked, and now I'm realizing I was also wrong about PETG with aesthetic additives. Both seem great when printed correctly!

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u/_theZincSaucier_ — 2 months ago