/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>haven't really printed much of anything over the past year
>decide on a whim to spend four and a half hours printing a dumb meme fan shroud from noctua
>probably the tallest print I've tried bothering with
>circuit breaker flipped an hour and a half into the first attempt for vaguely unrelated reasons
>fuck it whatever, decided I probably should've used a different filament anyway and figured I'd enable supports "just in case" since I didn't have them for the first one
>supports were a fucking mistake, one of them popped off the bed an hour and a half in(hue) and I had to do a shitton of work trying to mitigate for like 40 minutes until the support no longer existed
>and to the surprise to no one, the supports weren't actually needed to begin with
shit was fucking cursed.
should've just swapped filament and not bothered trying to care about supports since it didn't look like it was going to need them but already losing a ton of time sunk into it. But whatever. On the plus side, it seems to actually be a bit beneficial. It does do better directional air output and it also actually makes the more quiet so that's neat. Also minus the dumb support issue and some fine stringing(that's easily remedied via a butane torch) the print itself looks fairly decent so that's nice, I guess.
and now my dumb ass is probably going to waste another 2 hours printing a 92mm version to strap onto a terrifying ex-server fan I have kicking around and it seems like a cute idea.