Because the first discussion was closed due to no responses after 30 days, I thought I would start a new one.
I was needing some vases for LEGO flower kits, and made a couple. I think they turned out well. I was excited because I wanted one a little smaller than the designer’s, and was excited to figure out how to scale it down! I know it’s probably easy for most, but for me it was the first time trying that through the Bambu screen.
I have a rolling cart that I use in my pantry. It has handles, but we took them off because they get in the way. I usually use the handle post to grab onto, and the other day I noticed some little cobwebs in the one post I grab the most. I HATE spiders and their webs! 3D to the rescue! I found a customizable file on MakerWorld that was actually easy for me to figure out and they turned out perfectly!
One more useful print. My husband asked me if I could make T-post covers. Besides all the fencing we have on the property, for which we don’t need them, we also use them on all our raised garden beds (we have a lot of those) with wire to keep our dog from jumping in the beds. During harvesting, it’s easy to cut ourselves on them. Anyway, I made one (I found two styles on MakerWorld) for him to try, and he said it was perfect, need 55 more. I’ve got 25 down, next batch of 25 started this morning, rest will be started tonight (it takes over 10 hours to do 25).
Glad I can make them. It not only saves a trip to town, but I’m sure it’s costing me less than $ .65 each to make.
I have been making Halloween stuff on my 3d printer. I still get a guilty feeling when the printer runs over night unattended. I have started making some of the gridfinity boxes and have gotten more organized.
These are zoomed in - I was sitting on our deck. They had to be a couple feet wide. As I said, I HATE spiders and their webs, so I didn’t go take a closer look!
@davidgal2 - I started doing gridfinity for my kitchen drawers. I still need to finish a couple drawers, but I got the main ones done. I really need to make some for my craft room for my GF stuff!
@dwardio - PETG. I happened to have the orange in my AMS already because I made a bag carrier to keep in the car. I know the PETG may not last as long as TPU, but I still haven’t dried my TPU (I don’t trust it not to be dry, even though I haven’t opened it yet). But I also figure even if they last for a season, I can always print more.
“The Joro’s closest North American look-alike is the banana spider, also called the golden silk spider. It is a related species originally from tropical Southeast Asia that has already settled into the same Southeastern U.S. regions. The two species share body shape, habits, and size. The banana spider’s coloration is duller and it carries noticeable tufts of hair on three of its four pairs of legs. The Joro handles cold significantly better than its banana spider cousin.”
I’ve never encountered a Joro, but I’ve had its cousin plastered to my face. Thankfully they’re pretty chill.
Joros are coming for everyone on the east coast up to New York or so. They don’t love dry conditions and can’t take extreme cold but they can handle winter.
What’s wild about them is the strength of their webs (you can hear them twang when you knock one down) and the fact that they share webs. You’ll see a joro web and realize there are 4 mating pairs in it.
They push out native species. When they get established they’ll be so dense it’s crazy. They especially like power lines. Check it:
That looks like the spiders i see here in Japan. I call them zelda spiders because i don’t actually know what they are. But they are huge and colorful.
Finished the other 55 t-post covers yesterday. But we had rain so hubby hasn’t put them on yet.
@pubultrastar - didn’t know you had a parrot! Does it use the shower? The rack hooks look useful. I’ll have to check to see if there’s a different style for my shelves, although I’m not sure what I would hang on them.
@cynd11 - that is so cute! Definitely handy for hooks and small bait. We have our fishing licenses, but haven’t fished all year. But we keep our poles on the boat just in case we decide to.
@CMadok - when I googled the spider, it said they came from Japan, China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
There are huntsman spiders in southern japan. Those ones are crazy. The colorful ones don’t really move, but the huntsman are so active.
Last month we visited family, and my husband’s aunt was about to walk into a big spider that was dangling, so while we tried to get her to stop walking, she stepped back and opened her front door and this massive and super fast huntsman ran and jumped into her house like it had been waiting to get in… and she still ran into the dangling spider, so we had to pull it off her back… when she saw it, she was like, oh, it’s still a baby…
The one that jumped into her house was the size of a sparrow. The baby was bigger than anything i can tolerate on my back…
