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Topic: Greetings from Tin

Greetings and salutations .
Looking forward to hanging out here.
I am new to the hobby of 3-d printing recently purchases a soliddoodle. 4.
I have lot of life experience working in the graphic arts trade making silk screens, law enforcement, marine research and development, model maker , machinist, welder , aircraft structural mechanic, and electronics repair.

My main hobby for the last ten or so years has been building simple steam/air engines and have been an admin on one of the sites that is dedicated to home model  engine machining.

Tin

Soliddoodle 4 stock w glass bed------Folger Tech Prusa 2020 upgraded to and titan /aero extruder mirror bed
FT5 with titan/ E3D Aero------MP mini select w glass bed
MP Utimate maker pro-W bondtech extruder
Marlin/Repetier Host/ Slic3r and Cura

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Re: Greetings from Tin

Welcome! Let us know if you have any questions getting started, there are plenty of people here happy to help!
I'm looking forward to seeing some interesting air engine prints! Would love to see a printable stirling engine (even if it required a few other parts / machining steps...)!

SD3. Mk2b + glass, heated enclosure, GT2 belts, direct drive y shaft, linear bearings, bowden-feed E3D v5 w/ 0.9° stepper
Smoothieboard via Octoprint on RPi

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Re: Greetings from Tin

Thanks grob

Yes likely lots of questions. And I expect helpful people. the reason I joined here  is to get focused help with printing issues. I also expect to contribute and help others. I am very hands on I grew up on a sustenance farm where we grew our own vegetables and had dairy goats and if it broke we fixed it. Most of my career has been hands on fixing and making things.  often having to figure out as you go. I have converted a small lathe and mill to cnc.
Right now I have a couple of air engines file sets from thiniverse. Hope to have an air engine ready for the next engine show coming up in less than two weeks. I will probably us a little metal where needed somehow a printed shaft seems silly.
Right now I am trying to take time get to know the printer the software and read some posts and learn from others.
As a forum admin I am doing what I encourage others to do . Post an introduction on the first post. Read what others have posted . Contribute if you think you can be helpful and then ask questions.
The questions will come.

Tin

Soliddoodle 4 stock w glass bed------Folger Tech Prusa 2020 upgraded to and titan /aero extruder mirror bed
FT5 with titan/ E3D Aero------MP mini select w glass bed
MP Utimate maker pro-W bondtech extruder
Marlin/Repetier Host/ Slic3r and Cura