The legs broke as always but now I just glue the pieces in and it’s fine!

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    1 year ago

    What do you mean the legs broke as always? Can you show a screen shot of the sliced model and/or the STL? As it stands (heh) these look like they would be difficult to print in one piece.

    Added +1 for happy kids.

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      I assume it is more tolerances and strain.

      Legos are actually a massive engineering marvel when you look into them.

      Op, the kids are probably too old but consider printing duplo or mega blocks scale. Much easier

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      1 year ago

      It’s not a slice problem, I have a cheap chinese printer that never really worked very well. I think the hot end is broken or something. Do you know when you print something too cold and the layers don’t stick? That’s what always happens. I printed those in 235⁰ and they still came out fragile with the layers breaking so I just glued the legs with some epox and now it’s good. Its just a toy so it doesn’t need to last long, but it is very frustrating for sure

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        Do you have layers of better layer adhesion and layers of worse? Not to ask the dumb question, but what does your hot end temp look like over the course of a print? You could need something as basic as a PID tune or you might have a failing wire.

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          Yes! sometimes is better and sometimes worst! I tried learning how to change the hot end but I’m still really new and have no idea so I though about buying a more popular one, like ender, and then trying to fix this one

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    If changing the entire hotend is too complex you could try with just the thermistor, it’s a plug and play matter, so that should be quite easy.

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      Amazingly, I hadn’t thought of that yet! you’re right, I will try to do this before changing the whole He. Thanks!!