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My New A1 Printer

Started by granz, Jun 20, 2026, 12:25 PM

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JKnightandKARR

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Quote from: granz on Jul 16, 2026, 06:08 AMBut like I said, you made your decision and it seems to be a good one. I guess that I was just hoping to see a bit into your decision making. ;)
I thought about it for a few days. Contenders was:
-Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro- Main diff is Plus little bigger print size vs Pro
-Elegoo Naptune 4 Plus- Little cheaper.
-Elegoo Centauri Carbon- Heard encloaed cases make some stuff like ABS easier.

It was little hard, almost just got N4 Pro, but got to thinking that the enclosed space, wanna try selling stuff, so in the end the CC won. Honestly, probly wouldn't have been bad in any case, but the CC is just BadA$$ as far as printers go. Doing first print of my choosing right now. 8hrs for most of the Hilt n hand grip for the Master Sword from the Lwgend of Zelda.


granz

Got it, thanks for the background to your decision. Any ideas of how you want to do the commercial printing? I also need to find some ways to increase my income.

granz

Well, I had my first bad power outage that killed a print job. Last night, at about 10:30, while my printer was reprinting that job for my friend, our power went out. It was out for about five hours, but right after the power went out, I shut down the printer - in case of multiple bumps when power was being restored.

This morning, when I came into my office, I plugged the printer back in, and powered it up. It responded with a message that it had lost power, and that I could attempt to continue the print. I told it to continue, and the print seems to be going well.

This is the third attempt to print this job. The first one gave that bad stringing on the "shelf" - the one with no supports. On the second print, I added the supports, and had it set to "tree" supports. The shelf printed, but it took a lot of effort to remove the supports, and it looks pretty cruddy. This third print has the supports turned on, and set to "normal." I see a lot of tiny supports, and it does not look like it will be much (if any) better than the "tree" supports.

When I first load the file, it shows the object standing up, but when I click on auto-orient it lays the object on it's side - which actually looks right, except for that shelf. If this print job does not look decent, I will give it one more try, with the item standing up, as it comes in from the file. I will then give my friend the one that looks best.

granz

Well, here is the print job. It is a gift to a good friend of mine, and his wife. Don is the worship leader at our Church, and he is a professor of trumpet. He met his wife at a music event, both of them (actually their kids too) are musically inclined.

This is a Treble Clef, and a Bass Clef - used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff.

Don's wife was born, and raised, in the Czech Republic, and has been living there for the past year waiting for him to join her. Things have not gone as expected, though, and so she has come back to visit with him. I will give one to him, and one to her, and remind them that good music requires both to be together - and that they should remember that they should both be together (I'll need to work on the wording. ??? )

Chris Savage

Quote from: granz on Jul 17, 2026, 09:24 AMThis is a Treble Clef, and a Bass Clef

Or...a Bass Clef and a Treble Clef, respectively.  ;)

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JKnightandKARR

Quote from: granz on Jul 17, 2026, 07:02 AMGot it, thanks for the background to your decision. Any ideas of how you want to do the commercial printing? I also need to find some ways to increase my income.
I know first i gotta arange stuff n get more filsment n resin. Power loss feature is nice ain't it?

granz

Quote from: Chris Savage on Jul 17, 2026, 09:51 AM
Quote from: granz on Jul 17, 2026, 09:24 AMThis is a Treble Clef, and a Bass Clef

Or...a Bass Clef and a Treble Clef, respectively.  ;)
True... I told them to line up correctly. Just like kids, they never listen. >:(  ;D

JKnightandKARR

Quote from: granz on Jul 17, 2026, 09:24 AMWell, here is the print job. It is a gift to a good friend of mine, and his wife. Don is the worship leader at our Church, and he is a professor of trumpet. He met his wife at a music event, both of them (actually their kids too) are musically inclined.

This is a Treble Clef, and a Bass Clef - used to indicate which notes are represented by the lines and spaces on a musical staff.

Don's wife was born, and raised, in the Czech Republic, and has been living there for the past year waiting for him to join her. Things have not gone as expected, though, and so she has come back to visit with him. I will give one to him, and one to her, and remind them that good music requires both to be together - and that they should remember that they should both be together (I'll need to work on the wording. ??? )
Nice idea.

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