I bought an Anet A8 for 90 bucks on eBay, and I've been messing around with it for about a month. So, here's my first Benchy

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The first time I tried to print a Benchy it got a bit too hot...





A guy at work has a whole fleet of Benchys on his desk. I couldn't resist printing that one when I found the STL for it.  I've got several Benchys that I've printed to help figure out what layer height worked the best.  I wrote the layer height, print speed, and material on the bottom of them with a Sharpie.



I've been printing a pile of hold-downs for my dad's CNC router the past few days.

That's really cool! I found another model I'm going to give a try after I set up the hotbed MOSFET (hopefully today!)

I was sitting at work yesterday and realized that it was a few days until Halloween and I still hadn't opened the roll of orange PLA I bought a month ago.

I just ordered the Ender 5 last weekend, should be here soon.

I have a feeling I'll have a whole fleet of these in a few weeks.

I'm expecting ferry good quality prints!

On saturday I spent time doing some test pieces like heat towers and retraction tests and then decided I need to do something fun. I had also been playing The Outer worlds. So I hopped on thingiverse and browsed  finding something outerworlds related that had been posted 3 hours before. So I present you the spacers choice moon man

A benchy from a few months back (a little dusty) sliced in Cura & printed in Solutech Red PLA @0.12 mm layers (as memory serves) on an Ender 3.

I bought a roll of TPU a long time ago but had been wary of it, with many horror stories of using it with bowden setups.

I do have a 3:1 geared extruder but it prints really beautifully, I was surprised at how well it printed. Only one issue with a bridge on the benchy and it's honestly hard to see without examining it. You can see it in the second picture, it's a single line sagging a little. Even the lettering on the bottom came out good. I didn't clean up the stringing at all, and it's minimal.

225 C hot end, 45 C bed, 0.2mm layers with an 0.4mm nozzle. Tronxy TPU. 15% infill, gyroid fill, with 3 walls and top and bottom layers. 22mm/s max speed with half speed on the first two layers. 100% blower fan from a 5015 fan in a petsfang duct.

Now that the trepidation is over I can think of lots of cool things to make from this stuff.

That looks awesome!