I would double and triple check your not transcoding. Even if you’re watching on the client at whatever the files native resolution is depending on the codec of the file you might still be transcoding. For instance with 1080p anything h265 or AV1 is transcoded into h264 by the server. There’s also a few other situations where Plex with force transcoding or down convert the video whether you want it to or not.

Your NAS shouldn’t be having trouble serving the file to Plex I’d bet it’s transcoding in the background and you just don’t realize it.

Not to be pedantic but Earnhardt died at Daytona not Talladega.

Ive seen people use beeswax as a mold release, it apparently works really well as a release and fills in the layer lines in the mold so that don’t transfer to the cast. Or at least that what I’ve read.

I’m pretty sure they replaced all the running gear. I think the only thing they kept was the frame.

I wouldn’t look for voron stuff at Microcenter unless you feel like there’s no better option. The few times I’ve seen the stuff they sell it all looks like older outdated versions of the parts.

Yeah it definitely a good option depending on your local used market and or what you can find on eBay.

Nah mine draw less than 10 watts at idle, unless you’re constantly loading the cpu you’re not going to see even 25 watts.

I’ve got three different sff desktop units running various apps on them. If you look around you can usually find the tiny form factor business desktops from Dell, HP, and Lenovo used and a few years old for under 100 bucks a piece. The most expensive of the three I bought was a Dell with a 9600t for 90 bucks about a year and a half ago.

I printed a Bento Box filter for my enders when I started printing ABS. These seem to work pretty well but make sure you get the right carbon and good enough fans. Another printed option is the nevermore but that’s mostly associated with voron printers.

Ahh, didn’t know this was a thing

Beacon and cartographer are both Eddy current sensors and both do nozzle contact probing too. E3d has their Revo PZ with does nozzle contact probing with a peizo sensor if you’re in that ecosystem.

My NAS is on an embedded Xeon that at this point is close to a decade old and one of my proxmox boxes is on an Intel 6500t. I’m not really running anything on any really low spec machines anymore, though earlyish in the pandemic I was running boinc with the Open Pandemics project on 4 raspberry pis.

The number is the width/height of the mounting face in inches. So Nena 17 is 1.7inx1.7in on the mounting face, nema 23 is 2.3inx2.3in etc. though looking at datasheet for different nema sized mount that seems like an approximate not dead on number.

I bought a Grandstream GWN7660 last year and it seems pretty good, it replaced a ubiquity WAP that I still have legacy devices connected to.

Usually I see them on Aliexpress, fysetc just had a 2.4 kit for $728 with free shipping during they’re 11/11 sale. Gotta really pay attention on there though because sometimes you’ll see a kit listed for cheap with like $150-$200 shipping. But if you’re patient you can find really good prices. I know someone last year that got a Micron plus kit for like €550 total shipped.

1,000 bucks isn’t far off what the middle of the road cost of a 2.4 is. I’ve seen kits for as low as like 550-600 bucks shipped, this is without printed parts. The high end stuff like LDO or Siboor are 1,200-1,500.

The marlin build from creality is fine but klipper is another option if you’ve got a raspberry pi or an unused PC lying around.

I think there’s also some marlin forks around for ender 3s but I’ve never looked into those.

I mean the same way, retraction isn’t pulling the molten filament out of the nozzle in FDM so I’m either filament or peeler based extrusion you just run it in reverse briefly.

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Not to mention the patent for heated build platforms wasn’t filed for something like 4 years after the first heated bed was put to use. Stratasys only has the patent because that bought the company that filed it last year.

Also the heated bed was first put to use in 2010 as a way around the stratasys patent on heated build chambers, they never even thought to heat only the best.