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Starting to think of Christmas gift ideas to show my wife the printer saves us money. I came across this design on Thingiverse and while it is hit or miss to print, most are turning out better than I expected.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:240158

I have some colored pipe cleaners coming from Amazon. Will glue them in the base to make stems.

Cool!

Couldn't have gotten this far without your help, Jules!!

Oh sure you would......
(Good luck with convincing your wife that the printer will save you money though........ROFL!)

Cool concept for printing like that.

Jules wrote:Oh sure you would......
(Good luck with convincing your wife that the printer will save you money though........ROFL!)

The challenge was getting a pipe cleaner stout enough to support the weight of the larger flowers and to hot glue
it without destroying the PLA. I ordered some from amazon that were too weak. Picked some up at Hobby Lobby and they were much sturdier.

Jules wrote:Oh sure you would......
(Good luck with convincing your wife that the printer will save you money though........ROFL!)

Well, it doesn't make me money but if I could offset the costs associated with it, that would be fine by me. The M2 was a big part of me winning an award at work for process improvements and an extra $500 dollars!

Seems like I find a color that is fantastic then it is gone for weeks. Once it comes back around I feel like I need to buy several spools to avoid running out. The PLA market demand, especially on Amazon is rabid.

Seems like I find a color that is fantastic then it is gone for weeks. Once it comes back around I feel like I need to buy several spools to avoid running out.

This, exactly, is how I wound up with something like 20 spools of PLA that I have to store out of the humidity.