{"id":285,"date":"2023-08-24T14:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2023-08-24T14:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T14:22:23","slug":"string-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/24\/string-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"string theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i&#8217;m frustrated that my brand-new 3D printer is leaving stringy 3D prints. could be the ambient humidity, could be the PLA is old or accumulated moisture from the basement studio we&#8217;re in. i have tried lowering the temperature in the settings by 5\u00b0 C, but it still looks stringy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pink-stringy-print-1.jpg\" alt=\"close-up of 3D print showing stringing\" class=\"wp-image-286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pink-stringy-print-1.jpg 756w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pink-stringy-print-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"1008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pink-stringy-print-2.jpg\" alt=\"close-up of 3D print showing stringing\" class=\"wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pink-stringy-print-2.jpg 756w, https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/pink-stringy-print-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i admit a small part of my enjoys the aesthetics here, it&#8217;s like the jewelry is emerging from a spider&#8217;s web. but can i leave it as such? no. so there is easily 30+ minutes of filing, sanding, and gently cutting with an X-acto knife to get the strings out. i admit i like this tedious work, it&#8217;s like sculpting, it&#8217;s like caring for the piece. it&#8217;s not just a print-and-be-done-with-it, i have to coax the piece into being what it wants to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m frustrated that my brand-new 3D printer is leaving stringy 3D prints. could be the ambient humidity, could be the PLA is old or accumulated moisture from the basement studio we&#8217;re in. i have tried lowering the temperature in the settings by 5\u00b0 C, but it still looks stringy: i admit a small part of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/24\/string-theory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">string theory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewelry","category-process","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technekai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}