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Im kinda starting to like the black and yellow look i currently have setup. Maybe i will try that royal gold filament i have.

I brought some nice brass 1mm rods for the hinges on the waltzer, but they bend really easy and have very little spring. Im not sure how they will hold up tbh

I got an anti vibration mat for my 3d printer.
I got it to see if it would let me push my speeds a bit more, but it helps with sound too lol

im so fucking confused. I just connected all the old smaller yellow platforms, with the new bigger than expected platforms and they still overlap.

Its overlapping by 3mm now, but i dont understand how. Maybe i just need to use bigger holes? Maybe the extra 0.16mm on each side isnt needed at all, and it just needs more wiggle room....

I just realised, i can use the original yellow platforms to see if everything lines up correctly, because the old platforms have no adjustments, and the new ones have double what it should be, it should semi cancel each other out and leave me with the desired extra width😈

It seems i have made a mistake...💀

When i connected all the platforms, they overlapped by about 3mm 😭

So im going to have to reprint the platforms again, which sucks ass, cause they take SO FUCKING LONG.

I just looked some photos i took of the original blue and yellow platforms, and they wernt wide enough, which is why i reprinted them wider, but looking at the picture, i only needed to make up about 3mm in total, where as the new platforms are juast over 5mm wider, so double the needed size.

I think what happened was, i adjusted the hinges on both sides of the platform, with the total value for the size of the platforms instead of half the value.

So in theory... if i only increase it by 0.8mm on each side, it should give me the right size in total.

This probably makes little sense to anyone else, but i know what i mean 😭

I swear im my own worst enemy.

Im building the waltzer up finally, and im realizing how much i dislike the lower crossbeams. They dont really stay where i put them, and since i redesigned the upper crossbeams, the lower ones now feel even crappier. hmmmm

What if, when you die, your forever stuck in that second you died. So if you die in your sleep, you will be stuck in a constant sleep💀

Ive modified the rafters to have the bulbs print directly on the rafter. The old rafters had the rafter and the bulbs printed separately, then superglued in place.

The reason i changed the rafters is because I decided i didn't like the grey rafters ( and im trying to avoid building the waltzer through fear of something being wrong or it being right and me being closer to finishing it, which will then leave me with nothing else to do😂), i would have liked a more charcoal like color, and ive decided on the colour scheme for the ride, so i figured black would be the best choice.

I was going to try and work out why the bottom of the bulb is more transparent than the main bulb is, but i just opened the model up to screenshot it for here, and realized i forgot to lower the fucking bulb down flush with the rafter 😂

Oh well, I think they are fine, i mean, im looking it them up close and in a photo, but when they are in place, they will hardly be visible, so i dont need them to win beauty contents 😂

Besides, FDM printing with a 0.4mm nozzle will only get you so far🤷‍♂️

Ive printed everything i need to so far, but im putting off actually building it up. I wish i knew why 😭

I was just reprinting a car base (dont ask) and i thought, fuck it, ill double all the speed settings in the slicer, just to see what would happen... and it just printed a perfectly good part.

The time was reduced from 26minutes 23 seconds, to 17 minutes 5 seconds...

Kinda tempted to make platforms / pin wheel for a 10 car waltzer... I should probably finish this one first lmao

I brought a "selphy" from canon about 6 months ago, i got it to print the artwork for the waltzer, but now im second guessing it. My main worry is, the edges of the print. If i print a section of artwork for the shutter for instance, and cut it to size, im starting to think that the white edge of the paper will be visible.

So then i start looking around at other ways people do things like this, and i found plenty of different methods for adding artwork / images to the surface of an object without printing or painting it on. The thing is... they all use laser or inkjet printers, my injet is shit, and never printed color correctly anyway, and the selphy printer uses dye sublimation printing, so that leaves me with laser printing, and laser printers arnt exactly cheap, especially color ones, and even those arnt tremendous at full color images. But.. im considering getting a color laser printer. My fear is, i buy one, and the outcome doesn't meet my expectations.

So i have 2 choices i can see, Use the selhpy printer and hope for the best regarding the white edges, or spend £300 on a laser printer and transfer sheets and hope that it works as i intend...

Seems like an easy choice, but my impulse control is... lacking... shall we say.

This feather came out of my pillow

The test walkway is finished, and it fits... REALLY well. Like, it dont wobble a single millimeter.

I was thinking about putting a little more a gap between the slats, but i think its ok as it is.

The only problem with the new walkway is that i have to reprint the shutters, the walkways are slightly taller, so i have to adjust the shutter heights.

Im printing a couple of walkways to see if they fit as good as i hope they do, but im wondering if maybe i should use the textured print bed in the future, i have a feeling the smooth bed is gonna made the "wood" / surface a little too perfect..

I REALLY disliked the old walkways i designed, They was unstable and non planar, which made them a complete bitch to print. So ive spent WAY to much time redesigning them. They actually look somewhat like the real thing now 😂

Riddle me this.
Print WITH a raft, takes 59 minutes, without a raft... 1hr 22min... wtf is that about?

I was looking at the old tyres and decided i didn't like that it had no rim, so i added a one.

They kinda look like shit, but im ok with that, they look nice and used, kinda 😂

The weird shininess on the rim is from Super glue, Looking at it now, i realize i could have just made the inner diameter smaller and they would have probably stayed put without clue, to late now lol

I didn't give the tyre a rim on both sides because it would have needed supports, and im not sure im ready to tackle supports on TPU 😭

Gluing the rims is a very quick way to have all of your fingers covered in superglue😭