I've been 3D-printing for around five and a half years. So I'm not a rookie, but I just made a #rookie #mistake.

I've spent the last couple of weeks making compartments and dividers and such for the toolboxes I take to the Repair Cafe. Lots of test #prints to check fits and footprints, full prints, changes to design based on lessons learned during use at the last cafe, etc. I've put around three kilograms of #filament through my printer in that time.

Then, in the last couple days, I started having various problems. At first they only showed up on big prints - #adhesion and #curling, which I've had before when pushing the limits of my bed size. But prints seemed to be getting #sloppier, and I had a couple of spaghetti explosions.

Tonight, I finally took the #hotend apart and looked at it closely - it's very difficult to do when the printer is fully assembled, because it's a #delta printer.

Lo and behold, the nozzle appeared worn. And that can account for all the problems.

I should have checked this sooner - but I've only been printing plain #PLA, nothing abrasive, so I didn't think of it. Lesson learned.

Pardon the shitty photo from a cheap digital magnifier. The old #nozzle #orifice is about 1.5x the diameter of the new one - so 2.25x the area. No wonder plastic was going everywhere but where it should go!

Seems to be printing *much* better with a new nozzle.

#RookieMistake #LessonLearned #3DPrinting #FDM

My brain won't cooperate this afternoon.

Tell my why again I should go back into an orifice... er... office.

😩

#ChemoBrain #brain #ActuallyAutistic #office #orifice

Two #MastoPrompts in one haiku:

If you don't repair
every roof orifice
Weather comes inside.

#Orifice #Weather

Thanks to @tanweerdar

#Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

When you discover
A person to be autistic,
A portal opens before you.
An orifice, through which
You become an invited guest.
Don't stick your dick in it.

#poetry
#MastoPrompt
#orifice
#ActuallyAutsitic

@tanweerdar

I could write a thousand poems and stories about orifices, and none of them would be the truth. The darkness behind the inventions is too extreme to even contemplate in the mind, and too explicit to turn into words. Inside us, there are extremes which we can be driven to, at the turn of every blood red screw into our subconscious, when instinct mauls reason, and we become what we have always feared.

#MastoPrompt #Orifice #ShortPoems #Poetry

@tanweerdar

I ain't touching that #orifice

#SmallPoems #Poetry #MicroFiction #SmallStories

Put Your Recycleables In Our Orifice™️

#Orifice

#ejection...

#orifice #cgi #animatedgif