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I'm not sure if CrazyIvan has had a chance to test that new U1, or the steel nozzles, but I'll chime in for a small 'mid-term' report of my own!

I still haven't tried ABS, but I got more into PETG as I had interest to offer a bit more durable material for certain jobs. I realised my Flashforge AD5M ...

Really? You would have thought anything to make the machine less firm would make it worse! The general wisdom is to stand a printer on a paving slab rather than polystyrene.


I know!!! Hard to believe. I based this experiment on one older Thomas Sanladerer video on YT, to be more precise this ...

I wish I was more a spreadsheet guy than I actually am, as I could also use a bit of quality tune-up with my Adventurer 5M. Especially when eliminating ringing.

However, with my Sovol SV-05 I actually got noticeably less ringing by placing plastic foam pads under the machine's own rubber foot pads ...

Very little to add to CrazyIvan's recommendations, but when I usually post a problem into FB group, the most common reply is short and pointless 'Dry your filament' . But sometimes that can be a problem too. And, annoyingly enough, even with brand new, factory sealed filament.

If supports are ...

I haven't experimented with smaller than 0.4mm nozzles either, as I've always found 0.4mm nozzle and 0.12mm layer height more than adequate for detail. I once even tried 0.1mm layer height, as that was an option for my old Sovol SV-05 in the slicer. Printed nice, but there was a huge elephant foot ...

As a minor update to this thread, I eventually did not get an enclosed printer back when I started this topic. I had to place that money eslewhere, and since then I've been postponing the leap, because there's always something more important to buy, LOL! After the summer 2025, for example, both of ...

I suggest you try Orca. My brief research indicates it has built-in profiles for the K1 and K1 Max (update: confirmed), and it claims to be a good fit for Klipper-based printers (Klipper is one of the firmwares which run FDM printers, Marlin being the other main one).

Cura is very old-school ...

For information, Nomad Sculpt is currently listed on the UK iOS app store at £19.99 – which is quite pricey for the app store but still a snip if you can genuinely make use of it. It looks great though. It seems to me they should have a 'Lite' version available for potential purchasers to be able ...

I haven't printed ABS, as I don't have fully enclosed printer in my arsenal -yet. But I ran through few kg of PETG about 18 months ago!

The Mrs and my son got interested in geocaching about... Well, 18 months ago. And after they had found a few, my wife asked me if I could do custom geocache ...

I've been using TinkerCad ever since I started 3D printing. And I still use it for, say, 97% of the jobs, as I've gotten used to the software and I know how to work around the app's limitations. I also have a 2D vector graphic software, CorelDraw, which I have been using (in various versions) since ...