My friends are making masks

@RiotDemon I don’t want to talk about it. lol…

Gonna change out that new metal extruder to a newer metal extruder that has a metal part for the bowden tube to go into, not the plastic one. That little blue clamp clip keeps popping off of it and if I had an extra, I’d punch the SOB in the face. If it had a face.

I think I can change out the extruder with my eyes closed now.

I tried printing stacking straps and it got to three an there were strings all over the place. I cancelled the print and when I pulled it off, I had no idea how to split them apart. The print broke in my hands when I tried.

Then I looked at other prints on thingiverse so I wouldn’t have to print one at a time and some of those are printed STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN!

Nope, nope, nope.

Then I found some flat ones, but they’re too big for my printer and I’m clueless on how to get rid of a couple of them so they’d fit.

And I don’t want to talk about it.

@lisaviolet The clip keeps coming off, but is the tube actually coming out? If it is, it’s not pushed in far enough.

@RiotDemon No, the tube is staying in place, but that clip flies off and I don’t think that it should and it just won’t listen to me and I don’t dare put gorilla glue on it or I’ll be sorry, I just know I will.

@lisaviolet it’s probably just a faulty clip. I wouldn’t necessarily buy a new extruder because of that. You can take a small zip tie and put it in place of that clip.

@lisaviolet Just don’t pull it so tight that you can’t remove it if necessary in the future.

@RiotDemon I have zip ties (I also have a new extruder). I’ll try the zip tie first.

@lisaviolet I mean, is it functioning properly?

@RiotDemon When the clip is on, it does. But there was that mess with the stacking straps (see my other post that I was still editing when you responded so damned quickly). That’s when I noticed the clip was missing.

But as long as the clip was there, it was functioning properly.

@lisaviolet ah, oopsie! I missed your edit.

Grab a single strap and duplicate it in Cura so you can have a few on the build plate.

@RiotDemon Cool! I didn’t know I could do that.

Thanks!

@RiotDemon https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2994683

@lisaviolet how’d that work for you? I had those saved but my printer came with a few so I never needed them and a lot of people suggested the cable ties instead.

@RiotDemon I haven’t made it yet, I just found it today.

I made five masks this morning, then it all went to hell. Dumbshit problems, mostly, but it’s working now. I got cocky, thought I had leveling down.

Never get cocky. You’re just asking for trouble.

Off to give the blind cat subQ fluids.

@lisaviolet Wow! Those look great --you are a real inspiration

@cf1 Thanks. The mask makers are the ones doing all the work. I just set the machine and let it do its thing.