Category: Quantumbloging

Random topics and personal opinions.

The Quantum Domain

The smallest common denominator when reducing anything to the basic truth, resides in the Quantum Domain. Where nothing is as simple as it seems.

It’s why I can blame Quantum Mechanics when something goes wrong with one of my three dimensional prints. I know I probably overlooked a higher dimension. My reality becomes entangled.

I discovered my primary method of digital communication (email) sometimes seems to operate in a new dimension. Attracting very strange offerings from spooky creatures beyond an obvious 3 axis environment. Somewhere really “FAR OUT!

I created a new email organization I call “quantumail.net“. It’s not a website. It’s an email domain. I use it to communicate instantly, anywhere in the universe. It works for me.

Don’t get too alarmed if you see one of my emails from my favorite email domain. ~DK

Tags email, quantumail, Time

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Speed VS Quality

Speedometer scoring the fastest speed.

I recently ran a small test with one of my Cetus printers. Speed against quality. No doubt (again) that high speed and best quality do not hold hands.

I am saying “best” quality. High speed and “acceptable” are friends, they get no where close to “best” quality.

Printing FDM at high speeds is much improved with the new hardware I have seen released in year 2022. But the results are still not in the best category.

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Bowden Worm Hole

Just finished a lot of Print testing with my Anycubic Vyper Bowden tube FDM printer. As I suspected much of the pros and cons about bowden tube systems and retraction issues is pure misinformation or speculation.

Some of the “gospel” may have been true years ago when systems were built up from available tube ID materials. But I have proved to my own satisfaction most of todays machine are built for purpose with correct hardware.

Tags FDM, space, Vyper

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Quantum Speed

Some where along the timeline of growth, all 3D printing became a speed race where fast print time became more a goal than print quality. “Faster is better!” became the battle cry.

Additive manufacturing is an inherently slow process. the thinner the layers and narrower the lines (no lines in MSLA) the more time is required to put them in place.

Fine print quality requires thin layers and lines.

The search for speed is a good thing, moving from early designs where the hardware was quite slow. But once fast hardware became available, new limits were discovered.

Tags space, speed, Time

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