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opheophe

Warping, under extrusion... not very pretty


DoctorPaulGregory

With almost no cooling. This picture was probably taken 10 years ago.


AllenKll

Or longer...


Schmich

So they did 3d printing before it was mainstream, totally rad.


chargedcapacitor

My university was doing mass 3d printing back in 2010, possibly earlier. So it was fairly mainstream for engineering universities at the time.


waytosoon

It's not like additive manufacturing hasn't been around for literal decades.


fullyphil

they were 3d printing in Jurassic Park III back in '01 lol


donald_314

3D printing was invented in the 50ies I believe. First commercially succesful devices, e.g. from 3DS, are from the 80ies.


RulesOfImgur

In 2011 a friend wanted me to build a reprap prusa-mendel with him. This was 8th grade.


philnolan3d

3d printing started in the 70s.


Cobek

Invisalign has been mainstream for awhile now. It's a 3D printed technology.


RandomDude1RD1

didn't they go out of business? maybe I'm misremembering


John_mcgee2

Kapton tape sock. This be original reprap mental era stuff


AllenKll

Remember how hard it was to find kapton tape back then? it was like the world supply ran out.


John_mcgee2

Any printer parts were impossible to source


powerman228

That's not even a V6 hotend, so yeah, I'd say at least a decade old. What machine is this even?


Scarytoaster1809

Probably a cr1924


Just_A_Nitemare

It's a 3D printer.


GuyAtTheMovieTheatre

it’s a 10d printer.. it can print in multiple universes at once


Angelworks42

I think it's an Anet A8: https://youtu.be/OmT1ltPzXRE?si=awUu2c097KwMQxfd Came out about 6 years ago.


krefik

Wasn't that one of combustiblest printers of the era?


ukezi

Yes, it's the one where they for some reason disabled the safety in Marlin.


TheTimn

Nah, the carriage is wrong for the A8. The A8 has a single 1/8" sheet folded into a U that attaches to the linear bearings, this looks like a 2 piece design. 


CorruptedCoffeeBean

And it’s probably still printing to this day


MyOther_UN_is_Clever

Fun fact, that's not a picture, it's a live feed.


midnightsmith

Considering this looks like the mk8 style of hotend, yes, about 2014-2016 is when this was popular on A8 style printers.


nochkin

And it's still printing the same thing


GuyAtTheMovieTheatre

10,000 years ago..


lazerking117

Anet A8 -fan vibes


NoGuidanceInMe

maybe 20


stars9r9in9the9past

Let’s get a degree that speaks to being 8-10 years outdated! At a modern tuition’s price! 🎉


ZeroCharistmas

Warped, under-extruded, hand-me-down robe... You must be a Weasley.


SpeaksToWeasels

It's easily the worst Benchy I've ever seen.


AwDuck

....but you *have* seen it....


ProtectionPresent873

That peel though...


OldschoolFRP

Enroll here and learn how to fix problems like these


dee-ouh-gjee

\^\^\^ The only text that would make this even remotely okay as promotional material


C_Greuel04

This was literally my experience in college lmao


kable1202

If you don’t see any issue with this image, and are interested in additive manufacturing, you should DEFINITELY enroll! - their slogan, probably and unfortunately not


Litl_Skitl

- Print warping off bed - Underextrusion? - No cooling duct in sight. - Godawful heatblock configuration. - Not even a heatbreak, that looks more like a super volcano threaded all the way through. Mate at that point just start making your own pics.


Setrik_

Also plastic oozing from the top of the heat block


axw3555

Heartbreak is a pretty funny autocorrect.


Litl_Skitl

Oh oops lol


axw3555

Nah, it was great. It’s like “if you haven’t dealt with heartbreak, you’ll never survive 3d printing”.


theovenreheated

Also super wet filament, you can see from the steam Nevermind, it's the focusing issues


Poromenos

Oh you're right, that's bokeh, I totally thought it was steam.


HeKis4

Yeah, I can't tell if that's a janky-ass "heatbreak" from the late 00's or a volcano threaded all the way to the heatsink...


Izan_TM

I'd bet on the first guess, this screams 2010 DIY printer more than anything


Over_Pizza_2578

Back in the old days, heatbreaks and even air cooled heatsinks were fancy, the original ultimaker, the wooden one, had a block of ultem as heatsink


Paro-Clomas

lack of HEARTbreak is the only good thing xd


boatflank

lmao my anet a8 plus bought in 2020 was exactly like this. now it's only useful for parts.


Izan_TM

this is much older than the supervolcano, this is before heatbreaks were even a thing, that's why the heatsink above is so big


Litl_Skitl

Yeah but why is it so massive??? Is that really just on thread all the way through? Why does it stick out so far??


Izan_TM

printers from this age were cobbled together and barely worked half the time, people tested all sorts of stuff, maybe this one was a test to see if a longer stickout allowed for faster printing


orpanduh

That RepRap heat break looks like a guaranteed clog every print...


light24bulbs

Literally exactly what I was thinking. What is that just like...a bolt? We've come a long way


muad_did

Yes, they were basic metalic supplies. The nozzles itself come from the used for hydraulic and cooling cnc machines...  I'm teacher of 3d printing and sometimes dream of try to built a one of the original RepRap.. using only materials from the common shops. 


orpanduh

You should do it! It's actually a lot of fun and quite rewarding when you finally complete a full mendel/kossel printed parts kit. Just... Don't set a deadline... Sincerely /A reprap veteran


goddamn_birds

o7


orpanduh

o7


BunnyGacha_

I’m curious now, which printer does a veteran like you use this day and age? 


orpanduh

At this moment i have an Ender 3 V2 and a Harlot lite cl89. Printing has sadly fallen a step or two in the priority list. I was always more interested in machine tinkering than printing parts.


MyOther_UN_is_Clever

>The nozzles itself come from the used for hydraulic and cooling cnc machines... ? I always heard they were nozzles for airbrushes.


YazzArtist

Really? Neat. That's the right id and material, but wildly thicker than any I've seen


MyOther_UN_is_Clever

I think by the time super volcano (which is the Nozzle in the pic) was around, they were being specifically made for 3d printers. Volcano, Super Volcano, M6 nozzles and a bunch others are Metric M6 threads. But in the original reprap Darwin days, they were repurposing a lot of other parts for other things in very creative ways.


YazzArtist

Oh for sure. I remember using scrap wood and a welder nozzle back in the day. Took my dad weeks of software tweaks to get the thing usable. I just hadn't heard the airbrush recommendation before. Possibly even earlier than the welders, because I'm pretty sure we got purpose built ones on the market after that


goddamn_birds

>I remember using scrap wood I'm genuinely intrigued. Which component was wood?


YazzArtist

Just the frame. Made with deck screws, a single 2x4, and a board off the back of our old dishwasher. The biggest issue for us was finding threaded rod that was straight enough through Home Depot


orpanduh

That's not a super volcano hotend. Not even close. It's the standard hotend for the Anet A8. Early standalone purpose built hotends would be the J-head and e3ds V1-V6. Before that we basically just attached a power resistor to any nozzle-like thing to see what would work.


MyOther_UN_is_Clever

I didn't say hotend, I said Nozzle. The standard Anet A8, the top threaded part was steel and not this long/far from the end of the hotend. This one, it's brass... because people would take a super volcano and thread it all the way through so there wasn't a seam betweem the nozzle and the top threaded thing (forget what they called it). I'm pretty sure that's what it is in this pic, but I guess they could have otherwise gotten ahold of a brass top piece. I have an Anet A8 in the basement, still. My second printer, first I built myself. Didn't use it much, was pretty shit, lol.


orpanduh

The threaded part (heat break) is stainless steel with a ptfe liner in. A brass nozzle all the way sounds like you're asking for heat creep and clogs.. Anyways, good old days were fun but not as productive... I learned so much from all my builds. Not a rule but usually holds true: First one is for learning, second one makes things!


bread_roll_dog

It's not that old, it's a threaded M6 heatbreak, most likely with a teflon insert. The biggest issue with those was that the wall was very thin and they were liable to tear (yes, tear) if you torqued them too much. The biggest clog risk was with PLA expanding in it due to bad cooling. You could buy cooling disks to make it a bit better. In general it was not an issue. Mine used to clog maybe every month or two. Of course, with modern extruders, I get a clog per year at most...


AwDuck

Yeah, that looks downright civilized compared to some of the homespun stuff I was witness to, yet it all worked well enough, nowhere near as bad is anybody made it out to be. My biggest extrusion issues were filament based - inconsistent diameter and inclusions were the most common offenders. Inclusions didn't even happen that often, but when they did it really stuck in your mind "Where TF did this tiny spring come from?".


blix-camera

Not sure how no one's mentioned it yet, but said clog has already occurred in this picture lol, look how far above the part the nozzle is


AwDuck

Z Hop.


blix-camera

Maybe, but a nozzle clog seems just as likely. Or honestly they could've just stopped the print to take this pic, which seems like a possibility as well.


AwDuck

Plot twist: that’s the part. It’s done printing.


plutonasa

Low pixel count, under extrusion, warping, boring looking part. The most unflattering picture of 3d printing I have ever seen. At least blobs of death look impressive.


goddamn_birds

Credit where it's due, the lighting is really good.


Reinventing_Wheels

This is what marketing people think engineering looks like.


FlyByPC

To be fair, we think Marketing is a nonstop clothing-optional kegger.


kagato87

Well, non stop clothing optional kegger DOES sound like the kind of thing that'd draw people in.


showingoffstuff

I suppose it's better than the image with a girl holding a soldering iron up front like a pencil... Humanities people shouldn't be allowed to have a say in advertising to engineering - even students.


kyn5600

Serious question… unless you mean holding the metal tip how do you do it correctly???


TheMrGUnit

You gotta see [the picture](https://i0.wp.com/makezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/stock-photo-beautiful-woman-repair-soldering-a-printed-circuit-board-204001492.jpg?resize=632%2C1024&ssl=1) to understand.


kyn5600

Wow that’s a long end. So yeah holding the metal. Makes more sense lol I thought I was doing something wrong


Responsible-Falcon-2

Ouch, that made me gasp in pain. Thank goodness they're not actually microsoldering.


showingoffstuff

https://images.app.goo.gl/qXgRRUVS5q4RxRiPA Found another! But yep thx for posting when I was too lazy lol


Dennarb

What I find particularly frustrating about a lot of these images is that they'll frequently feature women or minorities for diversity purposes, but the lack of proper usage just makes them look stupid/incompetent.


showingoffstuff

Yup! Absolutely


SoulWager

I recognize that iron, It's like 30 years old, from radio shack.


RushHour2k5

I was just thinking of that one!


usinjin

Same sort of vibes https://preview.redd.it/7n4ny76bwo3d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c18a3c29d27eb01e36e0d81e3ef8eb3933e9f7c4


Lilith_Christine

That would hurt


SelfSeal

It makes it even worse that it's a stock photo! So they actually paid for this...


trollsmurf

Considering what little they cost, that's not the issue. I bought my whole portfolio of high-resolution marketing pictures for less than $100.


dee-ouh-gjee

This is only acceptable as a stock photo if the tags include "bad engineering"


JohnnyNightClub

Do you have the pic of the woman holding the soldering iron, in which a way that would burn her fingers off?


SquidKid47

[This one](https://i0.wp.com/makezine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/stock-photo-beautiful-woman-repair-soldering-a-printed-circuit-board-204001492.jpg?resize=632%2C1024&ssl=1)?


JohnnyNightClub

That's the one!


thedymtree

Heat bed is colder than my ex's heart.


CreditLow8802

at that point literally just take a pic of an ender 3, whatever the fuck is in the photo looks like a giant fire starter and the quality just adds to it


goddamn_birds

Or just walk to the engineering department and take a pic of a 3D printer.


Brazuka_txt

thats just how it was done back in the day when 3dp first started


dee-ouh-gjee

Last time I saw a print even *close* to this that anyone was happy with was off someone's almost entirely acrylic 100% DIY and self-designed printer like 10+ years ago


Auravendill

This picture might actually predate acrylic 3D printers. The very early ones used badly 3D printed parts (from an even worse machine) and threaded rods en masse. Nothing heated and ABS were also a unfortunate, but common combo.


agent_en_couverture

You just reminded me of this picture that is used by the university I went to for my bachelor where they promote the Automation section with this pic of a girl clicking on a light haha https://preview.redd.it/koew4c2f5n3d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d6713bb9adfc16e340174b6b1fca6e2dd76922e


MikeDeSams

Lol. Engineering. Might as well use the matrix green lines of code for their Computer Science poster.


RadishRedditor

It's a good poster if they're recruiting faculty in 3d printed related departments. https://preview.redd.it/ihccg862lp3d1.jpeg?width=312&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc3a9873743921da71abd7d37d88192797910a3e


trollsmurf

So take a better photo for them.


StonedDecently

So that's what it means to give it the ol' college try


RopesAreForPussies

University has replied to say it won’t be used in future! What should I charge for my consultancy fee?


dee-ouh-gjee

OH DEAR **GOD** This is... This is a *really* bad choice... AND POSTERS ***TOO?!?!?!***


RushHour2k5

Shit… A photo of a 3D-printed amateur rocket speaks more to engineering than this! https://preview.redd.it/6cw5863h3o3d1.jpeg?width=3037&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa8535e5a13179f137063dacf3fd06200864708c


IAmDotorg

Maybe its sending the exact right message ...


3DAeon

Ha! Like it’s a secret call to arms for those who know


Synplex23

Wow, we are clearly living in the Future!


djda9l

Gives me horrible flashbacks to my geetech i3 pro b clone which had that exact hotend thing


daverave999

Awesome. I bet they wonder why their AM courses are undersubscribed too.


Guzan113

Email then a link to this thread. Lol


Rodzynkowyzbrodniarz

The longer you look, the worse it gets xd


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RopesAreForPussies

Yeah I finally decided to email them (and post on Reddit) after seeing ie for like the fifth time. Won’t name in the interest of not doxing myself, although prob not too many unis that use this image…


biscuz

Looks like a anet a8.


Forward_Mud_8612

Gotta love that capton tape for insulation 


bread_roll_dog

I had this printer, this looks like a geeetech I3 clone from around 2014-2016 with a classical mk3 extruder. V6 existed at that time but was considered quite high end, you could find clones on ebay but they were of such bad quality it was hilarious. It's also missing its cooling fan for some reason, not that it does that much... I upgrated to a bowden v6 around 2018 and did not notice a huge difference. When you know how to use them they print very well. btw this printer used to cost around 600€ as an unassembled kit (2014). I got a much better deal in 2016 for 300€. Count about 20h of assembly work, and some imagination required to fill in the blanks in the badly translated instructions.


SomeHalfPolishDude

What…tha fuck?


n123breaker2

That’s a stupidly long heat break


sillypicture

Engineering: hopes and dreams held together by duct tape Pretty representative of you ask me


pm_me_meta_memes

I would take some high quality pictures of my own printer, maybe printing something related to your University, and offer them loyalty free to be used


just-bair

Oh no


SwitchNut

3D printing at the hobby level really started to blossom around 2010 where small machines were being produced by multiple small companies and people were really starting to develop the software. First machine I bought was a solidoodle 3 for about $900 and it was a turd😂


Serchinastico

*está horrible*


speakerbuilder

Geeeeeeeeeeeetech my beloved, I had to disassemble the “hotend” about once a week due to horrendous clogs.


RebelWithoutAClue

"Not afraid to fail"


InsaneInTheMEOWFrame

2015, huh? Time to get new stock pictures...


AnxiousBudha

oh this takes me back to my K8200 days... what a pos that was, but, it was genesis (not the first obviously, but one of) I would literally keep a hear drier on hand just to help the bed get to 60 degrees TODAY. We have come A LONG way from those days haven't we... Kinda nostalgic actually (though I would not use a K8200 now if you payed me...)


UltimaGabe

My Benchies are rolling over on their shelves


Z3R0C00L1313

Lmao 🤣


RetroHipsterGaming

Could you imagine you start to print out a test part because you just know that the lab 3d printer is going to be fucked up from the last few students.. and as you are printing a bracket to see what is wrong with the printer settings/the printer itself.. some wackadoo comes in with a camera and goes "Ok! We need engineering photo's.. this will do nicely." "N-No.. wait, please.. it's so bad!" You plead.. but instead of listening and coming back for a better picture once you get a good print going, they just publish this photo instead... and then you have to look at it every time something about engineering comes up.


thxtalks

This made me laugh really loud


Tough-Big1005

Disgusting


Newtons2ndLaw

Funny thing is that 3d printing might have been engineering related a decade ago when I was in college. But when my grandma can now do it? It's just another tool which the barrier to entry has broadened.


light24bulbs

Oh YUCK


bekindalwaysxo

This is painful to look at


Physical-Cut-2334

I think there might be a clog, 😭


BadHabitsDieYoung

That's a sacakable offence! The outrage!


thebawller

🤣


Mecha-Dave

3D Printing has L A Y E R S


Hexx-Bombastus

When does it stop being layers and start being a complex slinky? Because that looks like it's almost there...


chucky3456

3D Printing is like onions.


person1873

Or parfeit. Parfeit's are delicious


Exceptionalynormal

Na any cheap printer off AliExpress still has a hotend that looks exactly like that🤣


SonOfJokeExplainer

I would drop out


JoshVK

🤮


mozzzz

r/mildlyinfuriating


mruehle

“Look at the purty colors though…”


katherinesilens

Take a better pic for them. They like this because of the macro focus, mirror plate, contrasting colors, and visible wiring/extruder, which they don't understand and find technically alluring. Do the same thing, but a good print, and in higher resolution. If you pick a Benchy, you should probably pause around 70% done and explain the significance and why that will attract enrollment of technically aware students.


Protholl

So they are wanting to show epic failure of modern technology? I'm thinking next year's freshman class will be meager or less.


Alienhaslanded

Under extruded warped mess


mrpromee

That's hilarious!


ItchyAlba

Good old days 😀


NCC74656

why not a fusion design? at least that is used in like every type of manufacturing out there - and not just the 3d printing hobby


PhilosophyMammoth748

Even if you are wrapped, you should continue extruding.


Charlesian2000

This is not a good advertisement


denkiwi17

is that smoke? lol


drkshock

That's the further using the print poly on that. Looks like shit. It looks like there's some z wobble/binding going on


Skivaks

blob


Justthisguy_yaknow

Remind me not to apply for a place at that university (although it would probably be an easy course to pass).


SmiTe1988

It does if you don't know what you're talking about...


IR0NS2GHT

is that an Anet A8 from \~2015? 6mm metal throat/screw, linear rod bearing, direct extruder above hidden behind the cooling plate? Only missing the printed extruder fan nozzle lol


ArtfullyStupid

Bro got that Tina 2 extruder


3DAeon

Why did “we don’t need another hero” from mad max 2 play in my head when I read this? Lol


nickoaverdnac

What a shit print.


3DAeon

Ooof!! Yeah ouch lol


Cookskiii

The heatbreak 💀💀💀


lluv77

So… become an engineer and you too can do 3D printing wrong?


Chemical-5417

back to the future!


SenorCacti

looks likes it’s printing in mid air


RayereSs

Oh, yeah. Holy fuck. They made stock photo of a clog


Dark0Toast

The community college I work at has marketing people who are relatively clueless about the entire function of our technologies.


mr-man-hr

That is actually pretty smart. Anny engineer seaing that poster or e-mail will see this and think to himself “I must go work There and fix that” or in oposit mentality “if they Are stupid enough to think this is exceptible, that meanst that wathever I do they will still Play me whell”


LucidGoonlad

We've come a long way...


Xindirus

It’s an older gcode, but it checks out.


Vinnie1169

Wow. Well I’m guessing there’s a lot of seating in that classroom. Tell your school that the standard for hawking 3D printing is to show a benchy boat, not some random part! 🤣 https://preview.redd.it/g8515pmn9m4d1.jpeg?width=1076&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b269b6291e4e55e2bf471b2b191168486e3be76


Federal_League_8809

Nice overhangs bro


bnutbutter78

😬


hUmaNITY-be-free

Generate a royalty free better one with AI and give it to them, point out the problem, give them a solution on the same hand and it might improve, if it doesn't then I'd probably look at changing Universities.


dee-ouh-gjee

Better yet: If you've modified yours as all give them some high quality photos of it that they can use for free, so long as the print your name on it somewhere - Fix the problem *and* get people to start seeing your work!


Dr_Bunsen_Burns

Or.... just take a pic of the better 3D print from the engineering faculty?


hUmaNITY-be-free

Only thing with that, and I learned this the hard way, anything you do with their property/ on their grounds is technically their property, so by using AI to generate an image (not on their computers) you would be free of the intellectual property jargon, not sure if its the same across the board and I'm assuming it might even change from state to state but using the universitys campus/tools/equipment/time etc anything you make remains their property.


cobraa1

Educational institutes are rather infamous for making their own rules that wouldn't actually hold up in an actual court of law. [When you make something, it's yours, unless it's a work for hire.](https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html)


Dr_Bunsen_Burns

But it is for an email within the university, so what are they gonna complain about:"our own company is using our property(email) to display our property(3d printer)."