good news: screws fit perfectly in the ratchet and pawl. Amazing clicky noise but I can’t get a video uploaded for some reason? #BrianMakesAClock

bad news: some of the first parts I printed had the wrong material expansion settings and they’re too big. Gears mesh but push each other off their posts. Yeesh. Gonna have to re-print at least some of the gears… might be all of them. 😬 #BrianMakesAClock

Wellllll these adjustments don’t appear to have worked. Super stringy. I probably need to back off the material expansion settings! This is supposed to have a 11-tooth gear post on top too, but it completely failed to print. #BrianMakesAClock

for comparison’s sake, here’s the same model with too-high and too-low expansion settings. Too much adjustment leads to holes and structural issues, while too little means that all of the dimensions of the gear are too big in the horizontal planes.

AH HA! NO! Turns out in my slicer settings I said I was using 2.85mm diameter filament, but it's 1.75mm diameter. Still gonna print a calibration cube test with the change before I do another hour-long gear.

the reason I'm having to re-tune everything, by the way, is that I discovered the manufacturer of my 3d printer went out of business… so THAT'S why the slicer software hasn't been updated in like 5 years! I got Prusa slicer working with it, but there's no pre-made profile so I'm having to start from scratch (ish… there's a random GH repo with some settings.)

the gear print finally worked! (dance dance yeah!) Gonna have to do the next ones in the chain before I can show anything more than "lol here is another picture of a gear" but promising so far! #BrianMakesAClock

Victory! ✌️ #BrianMakesAClock