It should be around here:

It might be underneath some hoses or similar due to PDO. If push comes to shove, you could always use a skinny funnel and pour it down the dipstick tube…

The users who downvoted you were [email protected] and [email protected]. I’m sure it would make their respective day(s) if you asked them.

I’ve given up trying to make heads or tails of downvoters’ behavior. I am convinced that some people here either think there is some “algorithm” that will magically stop showing them some type of content if they downvote it (I can’t imagine I’ve pissed in that many people’s cornflakes, so that’s my theory anyhow) and others who don’t quite understand that there’s no such thing here as reddit style karma.

I dunno. It is what it is. I think fewer people realize than they should that votes are publicly accessible on Lemmy, though.

(Don’t look at me. I haven’t downvoted anyone in four months.)

Sounds plausible to me. On reflection, I think I’d just run off a wooden box on my table saw if I need a cube to sit on.

My problem, as I’m sure many others have, is admitting when 3D printing something probably isn’t the best solution…

If there were ever a poster child for printing something with a 0.4mm layer height of possibly even more, it may be this. One wonders how much infill you’d need to make it strong enough to sit on. Otherwise, I don’t know what the heck you’d do with it.

That’s just the shadow cast by the gantry blocking the LEDs that are all arranged along the front edge of the machine.

Rather, I have two of these which are just tiny specs of grey or black or grey or something, which got printed right into the top surfaces. They’re small, but annoyingly visible. This is what I get for buying cheap filament, possibly.

I can’t speak for other printers, but my X-Max 3 has an absurdly thick aluminum plate under there which seems to spread the heat pretty well. I’ve poked it with my little IR camera and it’s not 100% even but it’s not bad. The only side effect of this is that it takes a month of Sundays to fully reach temperature, especially when you’re aiming for higher temperature materials like ABS.

Here it is on today’s preheat for PLA:

(IR cat tax paid here.)

…And also breaks instantly as soon as it’s put under load. The process is for sure very interesting, but a simple casting like this is not the correct method for making something like a wrench. It’d be useful for plenty of other parts, though.

These days this is true of many other brands as well. The early days of your printer showing up as a kit full of bits and requiring you to spend as much time wrenching on it as using it are gone, unless you deliberately go and seek something like that out.

Qidi, Anycubic, Prusa, Creatality, and probably tons of others I can’t think of off the top of my head also make machines that are unbox-and-use.