That's how someone would think an old phone cord would look like if they have never seen one. In reality, it's knotted up 50ft cord tangled into a softball sized mess
From one old IT guy to another, your comment made me laugh but now I feel it necessary to explain to the others around here what a phone cord is.Ā
This print brings back so many memories of talking with friends for hours while twirling that cord around my finger and the inevitable full body rotation that was needed after a call was over to unwrap your body from the cord.Ā
Fun times
There's still plenty of offices out there using corded desk phones. I work in an automotive shop and all of our sales desks up front have corded phones.
just wait a couple more years, you will start seeing the latest tech innovation: "never lose your phone again springy tether!" and we will have come full circle.
100% will be an Apple thing. They invent phones without jacks, and then invent phones with jacks a few years later, because they're always "innovating." Like how people go and buy cords to keep their apple earbuds from getting lost.
Yep. I just saw recently this ānovelā contraption to keep your earbuds from getting lost.
https://preview.redd.it/cgwe0h3j11qc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ca69794ca3d7aa6f54bf0ce7adcb068c8270f5c
Oh wait. š¤¦āāļø
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Told coworkers this odd fact about ducks.... now everything they see that spirals is a reason to call out my name... careful who you share knowledge with, sometimes it comes back to haunt you
Most animals are. Nature is fucked up. Humans are pretty unique in their condemnation of violence. Not that it's in any way bad. Just not the norm in the animal kingdom.
Female ducks have a vagina that screws in the opposite direction of a male's penis, and they have to intentionally twist it into a more neutral position when they actually *want* to mate with a given male
Pigs too! I had one that loved to screw holes in blankets. One time he was squealing like crazy. His doink was dragging. He got a string up in there. I had to pull it out.
I'm seriously so baffled how this happened. Like i'm trying to imagine how you would even intentionally make this. How could a printer going full speed do this? Like how could the filament possibly cool down quick enough? OP said it was a 1mm nozzle, so I guess that has something to do with it? I can see there being applications for this if it can be replicated. I mean obviously a spring, or even just something similar to an old school phone cord could be useful.
it may have been printed on a slower-than-usual speed. Cura was in slow first layer mode, but as it was a vase mode print, I think the entire thing printed slowly.
You get this when the filament pushes out the side of the extruder rather than being pushed into the hot end (often from a clog or broken filament). I bet if op threw a set of calipers on it, it would be close to filament diameter.
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xJDEh77E7JOHZQoceadMVMlwWeM\_XwJE/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xJDEh77E7JOHZQoceadMVMlwWeM_XwJE/view?usp=sharing)
Take a shot at it! 1mm nozzle with PLA.
the spiral that came out is wayy wider and more spaced out than the gcode, you can sorta see what's happening here: [https://imgur.com/a/16qgyPS](https://imgur.com/a/16qgyPS)
All I get in simplify3d is really long, slow, travel move that sort of resembles the print in the photo, but no actual extrusion. Am I doing something wrong by just opening the .gcode file in simplify3d?
Thanks
I know what happened here, I think I could do this intentionally. It would take a bit of work to find the right timing on the circles though. Way too much fiddling. Tempting though.
if it helps, here's a video of the printing process. The diameter of the spiral is way bigger than the print, and the nozzle is 'rotating' much faster than the spiral is being formed. Maybe some sort of resonance?
[https://imgur.com/a/16qgyPS](https://imgur.com/a/16qgyPS)
Oh yes resonances all over, I saw them right away in the bumps on the print, my brain was trying to figure out what the model could have been where you'd get the deviations but still maintain the spiral, it hurt, no idea what it was :)
I'm not entirely sure how this happened, but I was printing a tall, skinny cylinder in vase mode on my old Ender 3. There were probably some layer adhesion issues, but it kept printing, and made this spiral. PLA with a 1mm nozzle, if that helps.
What was your layer height? This makes me think that it was either absurdly high or there was an error when the slicer tried to translate it into G code.
I fucking wish! I have an Ender 5 which completely randomly decides to start the print exactly 1mm higher than it should. Sometimes I have to restart the print 4-5 times before it starts printing correctly and apparently nobody else on the entire internet has experienced this issue. What's weirder still is that it hasn't done that in a few months and I have no idea what I did to fix it. I have all my presets tuned pretty much perfectly and the only thing I change between prints is layer height and perimeter count.
This is a shot in the dark but do you have some gcode with an extra z-offset in it somewhere?
I used to do some on the fly offset for a glass bed years ago and it would additively apply the z-offset if I didn't reset the printer after every print with that gcode. I eventually made a piece of gcode I could run that would reset the offset so I didn't have to hard reset every time, but it would catch me out still every now and then with in air printing.
Might be unrelated, but it sounds familiar.
I do have a glass bed and I do apply a 4mm offset in the printer settings of the PrusaSlicer. I'm aware that's the most likely cause, but I still don't get why it sometimes prints fine and sometimes it doesn't. I never have to change anything, I just stop the print and then start it again.
Unique doesnāt adequately describe thisā¦
This is an impressive failureā¦ Like loaves and fishes impressive. Does your printer perform any other miracles?
What happens in the gcode at the point it starts to swirl? It almost looks like it went from 0% fan to 100%. And what speed were you trying to print this at?
Maybe try this again but way slower
Darn what were the config settings?
I've been trying to print a long thin spring like that with no luck.
I'll repeat the failed process to get that result. š¤£
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It's not a failure. It's a Feature. Somewhat related but reminds me of this research paper from 2016 that intentionally extrudes material a few mm. above the target build surface to make Foams. If you use TPU, you can make very cool "foams" out of it. The end product feels awesome to play with Open access journal, you can read through. [https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29996](https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29996)
https://preview.redd.it/7ziksnskbqqc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37b50fcfe7705dfa06b24928a1e6e2c19e02dc08
https://preview.redd.it/oaqlwntqtqqc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4240808bab23acd5f0e0c564c22912b7ffb8574
Lololol mines not so creative š„“š„“š„“
Cool phone cord, bro.
Need to reduce the Internet speed setting in slicer on old printers so phone can work properly as they are on the same cable. š
And lord forbid if anyone picked up the phone and started dialling if you were in the middle of a print.
In that case you would need to to tighten the timing belt, seemed like bad timing to me. š
+1 Try lowering the baud rate to 14400
That's how someone would think an old phone cord would look like if they have never seen one. In reality, it's knotted up 50ft cord tangled into a softball sized mess
From one old IT guy to another, your comment made me laugh but now I feel it necessary to explain to the others around here what a phone cord is.Ā This print brings back so many memories of talking with friends for hours while twirling that cord around my finger and the inevitable full body rotation that was needed after a call was over to unwrap your body from the cord.Ā Fun times
There's still plenty of offices out there using corded desk phones. I work in an automotive shop and all of our sales desks up front have corded phones.
Thatās true. I should have specified for younger people.
just wait a couple more years, you will start seeing the latest tech innovation: "never lose your phone again springy tether!" and we will have come full circle.
100% will be an Apple thing. They invent phones without jacks, and then invent phones with jacks a few years later, because they're always "innovating." Like how people go and buy cords to keep their apple earbuds from getting lost.
Yep. I just saw recently this ānovelā contraption to keep your earbuds from getting lost. https://preview.redd.it/cgwe0h3j11qc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ca69794ca3d7aa6f54bf0ce7adcb068c8270f5c Oh wait. š¤¦āāļø
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Old school. Bet the autos burn fossil fuel as well...
Yeah most of them do
As one old phone guy to another...... Now explain to the gathered multitude what a 'satin cable' is. :)
Duck dong
Told coworkers this odd fact about ducks.... now everything they see that spirals is a reason to call out my name... careful who you share knowledge with, sometimes it comes back to haunt you
..............this made me feel old.
That's what my wife said upon seeing this post.
came here to say this
Whatās a phone cord?
I'll give you $100 if you can replicate it.
Here we go, the new ācork screw challengeā
Ducks have entered the chat
Fun fact: Some ducks have a clockwise corkscrew and some have counter-clockwise and they're completely incompatible with the other kind
Why
because ducks are rapists
Most animals are. Nature is fucked up. Humans are pretty unique in their condemnation of violence. Not that it's in any way bad. Just not the norm in the animal kingdom.
Yeah, luckily the human race is all about peace and love for everyone.
Yeahā¦..
We had to get rid of our ducks as they were killing our chickens by mating with them.
Female ducks have a vagina that screws in the opposite direction of a male's penis, and they have to intentionally twist it into a more neutral position when they actually *want* to mate with a given male
Here I am scrolling my favorite 3d printing sub learning that duck vagina are technicaly a āānutāāā¦ reddit is awesome
Funner fact: a duck needs to regrow it's penis every mating season.
Pigs too! I had one that loved to screw holes in blankets. One time he was squealing like crazy. His doink was dragging. He got a string up in there. I had to pull it out.
This is one of those times i wish i couldnt read
Reply with yes if you'd like to be subscribed to animal doink facts!
Dear god, no. š
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I'm seriously so baffled how this happened. Like i'm trying to imagine how you would even intentionally make this. How could a printer going full speed do this? Like how could the filament possibly cool down quick enough? OP said it was a 1mm nozzle, so I guess that has something to do with it? I can see there being applications for this if it can be replicated. I mean obviously a spring, or even just something similar to an old school phone cord could be useful.
it may have been printed on a slower-than-usual speed. Cura was in slow first layer mode, but as it was a vase mode print, I think the entire thing printed slowly.
You get this when the filament pushes out the side of the extruder rather than being pushed into the hot end (often from a clog or broken filament). I bet if op threw a set of calipers on it, it would be close to filament diameter.
[https://imgur.com/a/Vx746wW](https://imgur.com/a/Vx746wW) (I don't want your money, but lmk if you want the g-code :)
Impressive
Impressive
I can take the money since op doesn't want it
I'd love to see the g-code
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xJDEh77E7JOHZQoceadMVMlwWeM\_XwJE/view?usp=sharing](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xJDEh77E7JOHZQoceadMVMlwWeM_XwJE/view?usp=sharing) Take a shot at it! 1mm nozzle with PLA.
https://i.imgur.com/tN8nd3O.png Not sure why you're calling this a failure, it's what's in the g-code.
the spiral that came out is wayy wider and more spaced out than the gcode, you can sorta see what's happening here: [https://imgur.com/a/16qgyPS](https://imgur.com/a/16qgyPS)
Well off course, the plastic doesn't come out hard of the nozzle, it's going to settle before hardening.
All I get in simplify3d is really long, slow, travel move that sort of resembles the print in the photo, but no actual extrusion. Am I doing something wrong by just opening the .gcode file in simplify3d? Thanks
Try with Cura, that's what this was printed with.
That is actually really goddamn impressive that it's repeatable. Frigging cool!
Definitely post the gcode lol
Ooooo share the code! I wana try lol
see google drive link above \^\^
Sick!
Get that money! Someone on reddit is offering to give you 100 bucks... lmao.
I know what happened here, I think I could do this intentionally. It would take a bit of work to find the right timing on the circles though. Way too much fiddling. Tempting though.
if it helps, here's a video of the printing process. The diameter of the spiral is way bigger than the print, and the nozzle is 'rotating' much faster than the spiral is being formed. Maybe some sort of resonance? [https://imgur.com/a/16qgyPS](https://imgur.com/a/16qgyPS)
Oh yes resonances all over, I saw them right away in the bumps on the print, my brain was trying to figure out what the model could have been where you'd get the deviations but still maintain the spiral, it hurt, no idea what it was :)
I'm not entirely sure how this happened, but I was printing a tall, skinny cylinder in vase mode on my old Ender 3. There were probably some layer adhesion issues, but it kept printing, and made this spiral. PLA with a 1mm nozzle, if that helps.
Looks like a broken gcode to me
What was your layer height? This makes me think that it was either absurdly high or there was an error when the slicer tried to translate it into G code.
What were you *trying* to print?
Possibly a pin support challenge?
[A long thin cylinder](https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/s/Wpc65X362P)
I was so certain [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/zdv5gv/how_would_you_get_a_small_cylinder_51in_length/) was gonna be the link
I was hoping it would be that too š
That's what I'd like to know š
i swear printers work better when they're broken in a really inexplicable way
I fucking wish! I have an Ender 5 which completely randomly decides to start the print exactly 1mm higher than it should. Sometimes I have to restart the print 4-5 times before it starts printing correctly and apparently nobody else on the entire internet has experienced this issue. What's weirder still is that it hasn't done that in a few months and I have no idea what I did to fix it. I have all my presets tuned pretty much perfectly and the only thing I change between prints is layer height and perimeter count.
This is a shot in the dark but do you have some gcode with an extra z-offset in it somewhere? I used to do some on the fly offset for a glass bed years ago and it would additively apply the z-offset if I didn't reset the printer after every print with that gcode. I eventually made a piece of gcode I could run that would reset the offset so I didn't have to hard reset every time, but it would catch me out still every now and then with in air printing. Might be unrelated, but it sounds familiar.
I do have a glass bed and I do apply a 4mm offset in the printer settings of the PrusaSlicer. I'm aware that's the most likely cause, but I still don't get why it sometimes prints fine and sometimes it doesn't. I never have to change anything, I just stop the print and then start it again.
I had similar issues that came down to bizarre bugs in the slicer. Switched slicers, set up with basically all the same settings, problem fixed
But.. how???
Your cooling is godly
Probably what baffles me most about this. Unless he was printing at 5% speed I just don't understand.
Good news, your printer is excellent with overhangs
Keep that and make a tiny telephone to glue it on.
Wait but how did it even do that, and what printer is that?
New torture test just dropped
I kind of want to print this
Thats a failure?! That should be a full control test.
Failed successfully
This could be a full control xyz thing
Part cooling stress test
At least it's got a flared base?
Crazy u can get that but I canāt print a tiny spring
New test print just dropped
"Behold, the upward-spiraling pigtail"
You sound just like my yoga instructor.
Dam that's sweet AF, dudes just set a new 3D printing challenge without even knowing. Got the stl? š¤£š¤£
OP posted the gcode above, said he used a 1mm nozzle though. I can't imagine this would work with a .4 lol.
Probs not tbh
I giggled and thought "you wouldn't download a phone cable" #piratelife
I don't think I can even print that on purpose
just... HOW?!
Show the code preview in the slicer please!
[https://imgur.com/a/GPtyeNF](https://imgur.com/a/GPtyeNF)
This may be a dumb question, but why were you printing a 200 mm (guessing) rod?
needed a stand-in for a carbon fiber wing spar, was fit-checking some wing ribs for a glider.
Your print failed successfully.
That would look like a cool exercise in manufacturing if that was intentional
One is blue - one is gold. Were you trying to print an Internet-phenom dress?
You need to share the gcode for this
I thought this was some kind of new torture test print.
Oh, I see you did the new update, didn't you?
That's not a failure, that's a win!
wtf???
That's illegal
Hair tie? You could just buy those for cheaper than you can make /s
Printed a 1990 phone cable nice
As I was scrolling along I thought somebody had dropped their phone from the '90s on to my page.
One manās failure is another manās full control
What was the indented print?
That looks like it go boi-oin-oin-oin-oing
Failed successfully
Congratulations, you failed successfully. š
Is that a gold ~~dress~~ filament or a blue ~~dress~~ filament?
Wtf yeah first is white and second is blue
I need answers
OP we can tell what emisphere youāre from with this picture get doxxed
Boioioioioing
How did it change color from white to blue?
Unique doesnāt adequately describe thisā¦ This is an impressive failureā¦ Like loaves and fishes impressive. Does your printer perform any other miracles?
... how does one even create such a failure? ...I wanna try it
You printed a phone cord ?
Printer phone home.
That's a failure? I thought this was one of those Full control tests haha
New challenge invented.
Printing a 1980s phone cord?
I have to say this is my favorite fail for 2024
Thats impressive. You could never do that intentionally haha
You made a spring!
What happened here?
Get a bunch of lined papers
Art.
Doubt you could get that with gcode settings.
**Sprong!**
Looks like the start of a great cat toy.
What was it supposed to be? This looks neat!
Budget IUD
I'm interested in how you did this lol
So you weren't printing springs for your project?
How did it change color?
What happens in the gcode at the point it starts to swirl? It almost looks like it went from 0% fan to 100%. And what speed were you trying to print this at? Maybe try this again but way slower
What is supposed to be?
nice you made a telephone cord
Long Live the phone cord.
Pig penis
Darn what were the config settings? I've been trying to print a long thin spring like that with no luck. I'll repeat the failed process to get that result. š¤£
How does this even happen. Itās dope tough.
what is that a 11231241243MM nozzle?
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It's not a failure. It's a Feature. Somewhat related but reminds me of this research paper from 2016 that intentionally extrudes material a few mm. above the target build surface to make Foams. If you use TPU, you can make very cool "foams" out of it. The end product feels awesome to play with Open access journal, you can read through. [https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29996](https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29996) https://preview.redd.it/7ziksnskbqqc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37b50fcfe7705dfa06b24928a1e6e2c19e02dc08
https://preview.redd.it/oaqlwntqtqqc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4240808bab23acd5f0e0c564c22912b7ffb8574 Lololol mines not so creative š„“š„“š„“
It's not a failure, it's a successful experiment š
Doesn't look like a failure to me ... looks cool af
Your mom said the same thing