What's on the 3D printer today Hivers

Something rather big that's what. I got a call from a mate who has just got a new Mac Mini and very nice it is too, but he wants to mount it off the desk asked if it was possible to print a wall mount which we found on Thingiverse.

A little bit of a tall order on the Ender 3 printer bed but with a bit of tweaking the printer settings in Cura I just managed to get it to fit. The standard bed size is 220mm X 220mm as there 10mm allowance all the way around. I've increased the bed size to 230 x 230 but you run the risk of the print edges lifting because the edges of the bed run a little bit cooler, it all seems ok at the moment time will tell though as the print gets taller.

The other issue is I'm fast running out of PLA to print. The power cut we had this evening didn't help I was about 3 hours into the print when the lights went out and the printer stopped.

I suspect it was something to do with the storm at the time but they seem to happen all too often in the Philippines.

But it did mean that the print had to be restarted wasting a good bit of PLA filament I can ill afford at the moment as orders are taking so long to arrive. But fingers crossed there will be enough I should know in about another 12 hours.

Well, that's all finished with no more power cuts and enough filament to finish the print. At a guess, I've got about 20m left so not too bad.

All fitted so another happy customer.