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I never called anyone stupid. I was referring to the idiots that initially started sharing the idea they came up with to dampen the noise on their machine by adding ball feet, which is a really dumb idea. They started posting it in the 3d printing groups as an improvement, when all they had to...

I have one of the original CR10's and an early release S5. Neither of them are loud enough to bother me. I never said the balls were being used to make anything print better. I simply said it will make them print worse. I know why they started doing it, but it's just wrong. You can buy...

The whole "tennis ball feet" and rubber under your printer is just dumb, and the people that started releasing designs to "dampen" your printer are clueless idiots. You don't want your printer bouncing back and forth. You want it as rigid as possible. If your printer is able to shift around...

Vertical lines in your print are typically caused by your start and stop points. I am not sure what it is called in Cura, but in Simplify 3d you can set the start points to be optimised, random, or start closest to an XY coordinate. Random will create the fewest vertical patterns as it will...

That is the reason I left the best job I ever had. A guy crashed a Haas lathe, doing $12k damages, and the owner, who rarely spoke to us, pulled us all off to the side and said the next person that crashes a machine was getting fired. I left there a few weeks later, along with my buddy who...

Shoot, I saw crashes costing tens of thousands of dollars. When a 3d printer crashes, it just goes click click click 😜

They can be frustrating. What are your print settings? Temps, layer height, outer perimeters, top and bottom layers, etc? And what filament are you using?