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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I have the MYNT pen you have pictured and I’ve used it a few times to patch up bad holes or other spots on prints that I did on my 3d printer.

    It does the job when it comes to filling spots and am guessing it would easily do what you are describing. I know I find it a little unwieldy (I think that’s the right word) when it comes to making it do intricate things. I’ve seen pictures of detail work people claim they’ve done with them and meh - it’s beyond me. I’m decent with an airbrush but it doesn’t handle the same way.

    I guess keep in mind - the pluses is that it uses the same filament you are using so it will match color wise.

    The minuses is that it can be inconsistent with the flow rate and can be uneven with how it fills and looks so be prepared to (possibly) do a little extra sanding to get it level.


  • There is actually an app that will let you remotely view and start/stop the printer without the use of the VPN.

    My wife often works from home and is tech savvy so I have no problems running prints and checking in remotely and I often hear of others doing the same; however…

    I would not recommend doing it without someone handy. Just my two cents. It’s not that someone could hack in - it’s that you are dealing with temps in the hundreds of degrees Celsius. While I don’t recall of these things catching fire, the thought that it could burn my house down has more than once crossed my mind.



  • Sorta. I finally gave up searching and just got one of these that you can find online and in HD stores:

    https://imgur.com/gallery/ZCGrQSw

    It seems to work but I had to do some experimenting first about location and the like.

    I initially set it up just a few feet from the plants like what I read both with the light and online. The plants grew like mad but I also noticed the leaves began looking like they were burnt.

    I ended up moving the light to about 10 or so feet away and turning it so it was not quite direct on them. I put it on a timer for just four hours and left the overhead light on during daylight hours for regular light (I have them in the garage now during winter months).

    The leaves on my avocado trees now look like a wet glossy sheen. So something seems to be working.

    I’ve barely fertilized them - maybe once every three or four weeks or I will give them some citrus plant fertilizer but otherwise they seem to be growing well.

    In another couple weeks I will move them back outside.