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Help, I've started printing and can't stop

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The last 2 weeks I'm been working on a phone cradle/induction charger stand.
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I've learned to do 0.4mm layers when you're still trying to fit things together, because 0.1 mm layers takes 4 times longer...

Then last night I started some completely new design work, and couldn't stop. I was too tired to start a print last night. So this morning I started to kick off the prints, and I can't stop. The printer has been running 10 hours non-stop. I know that's not a long time in 3D Printer years. But I can't stop, and probably need a 2nd printer...
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"Put down the filament and slowly back away..."

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Didn't you know? Most filament providers are putting in cocaine, Viagra, and nicotine in the blend that aerosolizes when heated. That is not a plastic smell...

As a wise man once said, "Is that air you are breathing?"
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Demolishun wrote:Didn't you know? Most filament providers are putting in cocaine, Viagra, and nicotine in the blend that aerosolizes when heated. That is not a plastic smell...

As a wise man once said, "Is that air you are breathing?"
For the price of the filament, this makes it an even better deal!
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Demolishun wrote:Didn't you know? Most filament providers are putting in cocaine, Viagra, and nicotine in the blend that aerosolizes when heated. That is not a plastic smell...

As a wise man once said, "Is that air you are breathing?"
I cracked up reading this hahahaa
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This makes those times I put my head really close to the extruder to breathe in that lovely PLA smell even more suspicious...
I loved my Rostock so much I now sell them in Oz :)
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I'm trying to resist today, but I'm getting the DTs...

But the up side is, I'm having the best and wildest dreams at night I've had since college!
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I've always admired people who find something they're passionate about.
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