Tilting dual extruder - position check with endstops?
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@eumldeuml said in Tilting dual extruder - position check with endstops?:
@deckingman The phrase "in a way" might be subject to my deficiency in expressing the desired statement distinctly enough in the prior sentence. So I'll gladly and openly admit that you were absolutely right
This post was made possible by google translator and other sources of fancy english words lol
Good Lord. I had absolutely no idea that English was not your first language. In fact, I know very few native English speakers who could have put those sentences together. You and your sources of "fancy English" are doing a remarkably fine job. Terms such as "can of worms" and the slang expression "cram the two endstops in there" had me convinced that I was conversing with a native English speaker.
May I ask what your first language really is? Let me guess. You use expressions such as "endstop", "toolchanger" and "printhead". These would normally be separate words (end stop, tool changer etc) but I believe that the German language tends to combine multiple words, if not whole sentences into a single word. Would I be right?
By the way, it's English with a capital "E".
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@deckingman Well, those expressions you mentioned come from several YouTube channels where English is the dominant language. So I know a lot of words and expressions (passively) but when I want to use them to create a clear English sentence I usually don't recall any of them... That means I either have to resort to googling every other word or I use the next best thing that comes to mind which very likely results in a poorly understandable sentence. But that's all due to my lack of experience in the English language (I don't need to speak English very often).
You are absolutely right about my native language and I like your analytic way of thinking
You're only wrong in one point: In German you can't put a whole sentence in one word even though you can create awfully long sentences. The English language tends to have rather short sentences (and also words) which can sound quite primitive in German. -
@eumldeuml However you achieve it, your English is far better than my German. As general rule, English people are very poor at making an effort to learn other languages. The usual method to make non-English speakers understand, is to simply keep repeating the same word or phrase in English but saying it louder each time.
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@deckingman Well, that phenomenon of "explaining" something by repeating it louder and louder is common in every language I guess...
By the way, your anlaytic thinking and your sense for perfectionism ("it's English with a capital E") has intrigued me to check out your blog and I like it a lot!
So many ideas for projects that likely never get done since I already have like months of work before me until I finish all the stuff that's on my DIY list...
Anyways, your printer and the mixing hotend with five extruders is really impressive! I don't know if this compliment will drown in countless other ones but in my experience the average DIY guy doesn't get much appreciation in his personal environment, so I just wanted to get it out there. Keep up the good work! -
@eumldeuml Well thank you for your kind words. The blog/web site isn't the best because it's a free WordPress plan so I'm limited on what I can do. But then, I get no financial reward out of it, so I'm reluctant to pay out for a better plan.
You are right that I don't get much feedback. The analytics show that on average I get about 150 views and 60 visitors per day but I only have 12 followers and rarely receive any comments. My YouTube channel is similar in that it has received around 36,000 views to date but I do have 412 followers. I only get one or two comments a month from YouTube though.
The only reason I post things on my blog and YouTube channel is to share my experiences (both good and bad) so that others might benefit from what I've learned or discovered. So it's always nice to know that I'm not completely wasting my time.
There is a another native German @wilriker who I have had several conversations with, both on these forums and privately. He likes me to correct his English. I thought you'd appreciate it too, hence the "E" not "e". I wasn't trying to be pedantic - merely helpful.
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@deckingman said in Tilting dual extruder - position check with endstops?:
The usual method to make non-English speakers understand, is to simply keep repeating the same word or phrase in English but saying it louder each time.
Or slower... like... are... you... understanding... me... now... better? May..be eeeeeven streeeeeetchiiiing the wooooords.
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You're wrong, now you have 413 followers
There's a lot of good information in your blog so you're definetively not wasting your time! And correcting other people's is nothing pedantic (as long as it's reasonable) but rather something to learn from. But sadly many people don't see it like this...@wilriker I looked on your profile page and you couldn't have described our hobby better!
And now I think I did enough brownnosing (I have no idea if that's the right word, it was a suggestion from dict.cc; in German it would be "einschleimen" which would translate to something with slime... so a direct translation is obviously not correct lol)
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@eumldeuml said in Tilting dual extruder - position check with endstops?:
brownnosing
something with slime
Now I've got those two images together in my head. Gross.
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Well, we've drifted off just a little bit
In order to add a little bit to the original topic: I managed to get the end stops and the trigger commands to work but I realized that my magnetic latching mechanism is too weak. So tomorrow I'll try to improve that. I also need to design a part cooling duct but the first print with the new Extruder showed that a lack thereof isn't all too bad
