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Backstory: I’m back into 3D printing and got an Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 back while they were on sale for cheap, and just finally got it unboxed and set up over the weekend. I got it because I wanted to prototype some shop tools for my guitar amp repair hobby/side hustle, and I like the idea of being able to remix my own Fredman clips for studio shenanigans (e.g., different angles, different microphone body sizes, etc.).

So, naturally, I had to scrape together some random models from Thingiverse, stitch them together, and try out the multi-color print functionality in the most “IRL shitpost” way that I could think of at the time. This is printed with 100% infill and staggered concentric walls, so it might actually be functional. Surface ironing got rid of some of the hatching, but that black filament has been in storage for like 8 years and was never that great to begin with – still, I’m surprised at the results.

This was really more of a proof of concept for doing some high-rigidity settings in the slicer software as a preparation step for making some adjustable machinist’s screw-style jack stands for keeping a tube amplifier chassis suspended off the bench with the circuit exposed and as much space as I need to keep the power tubes lifted up. PLA isn’t my first choice around that much heat, but HT-PLA should more than handle it as long as the stand isn’t directly touching a tube that has gone into thermal runaway.