3D printed sock knitting machine(CSM) MK2 endurance test of Anycubic Kobra 2 + free build plans
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In this episode we review the Anycubic Kobra 2 and build a sock knitting machine (CSM).
I test the full capabillities of both machines and what any possible flaws there might be. I also fix a sensor issue on the Kobra 2 which is a common problem that maybe helpful to know how correct it.
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Hi Guys I hope this video was helpful, I would be very greatful to hear your thoughts and ideas on improving the design?
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All the very best
Cheers J
To make a heel, gradually unhook one side for a few turns, then reattach.
My wife and I also support children through Compassion International. It's a great organization.
from what I have seen on a few other videos to make a heal you actually do partial turns and I think I recall something about cast off a section for the top of the foot ... which would make sense sine you are trying to lengthen one side and keep the other at one length ...
At 4:55 you mentioned bulging, I usually solve this with a .5mm fillet you can't see it on the final print but it prevents excess material build up. That's what I do on my projects when I need tolerances to behave
@@brandonm1088 thank you. Cheers J
As a machine knitter, this was great to watch. Love that you are reimagining very old technology. The feature you need for a heel is called "holding" where you put some needles out of work while others continue to knit. Adding a ribber to this setup will also make that easier to do as well as give you the ability to add a cuff that keeps the sock up.
Thank you that's good info. Cheers J
To make short rows and shape a heel you need to hook the yarn one needle farther than where you want to reverse direction, as she said, a retainer.
Now, I didn't know ribbing was possible in these round machines.
I have a flat Lanofix that belonged to my mother and still works.
@@claudiaroedel1368 does 3d printed clothes price same or little more than fast fashion
Today, I found a new printer project. I'm going to print this out on a Creality K1 and see how it goes. Thanks for the video!
Thank you. Cheers J
Hurrah! A 3D printer that has created something that is actually useful. This man has just shown why blacksmiths have always been, and still are, pillars of the community.
Thank you so much. Cheers J
Super neat! Can at least make traditional tube socks with that setup. Maybe a scaled up version for making scarves?
Definitely. Thank you. Cheers J
Got me thinking about having a vertical power wheel and putting this on an old treadle sewing machine
Guys, just get the Neptune 4. Cheap, looks better in my opinion, Klipper and 18 minute benchy
One of the ADHD pitfalls I almost managed to eliminate: Spending time and money trying to make something myself that I can buy for a quarter of the price and only 10% of the effort 😄
Wow! This machine could be used for making carbon fiber or Kevlar sheaths to slide over foam or 3d printed shapes to create ultra strong forms when epoxied onto the shape. Wire fiber could be used to make cable sheaths for wire or pneumatic tubes. Cable runs could have custom hemp wire lacing for stereo systems. Copper wire could be used to create EMF shield for HAM radio systems.
The possibilities are endless. Cheers J
Calm down.
yes it could there is a place that actually does make carbon and or kevlar sleeves for just that purpose
@@markrainford1219 Dude should keep his socks on 😂. Badumm tss.
Knit fiber is usually only used in laminates to improve resin flow ( and therefor saturation) between actual load bearing layers like roving mats or 45° braided tube; because in order to take a load, the fibers need to be as taut as possible. Think of it as like reinforced concrete. Nobody´s using chain link fence for that, but instead mats of rebar that very closely follow the direction of force if done correctly.
The amount of work you have put into this is impressive. We have alpacas and their fiber is significantly better thermally than sheep wool. I would love to make a machine like this to produce products and even though I have a 3D printer and laser engraver, I don't have the patience or skill to do it. I am very impressed with what you have made there!
How do alpacas do in hotter weather? Do they have different variants that can handle hot and humid?
Thank you so much. Hopefully the effort is done for you and you just need to print the parts. All the very best. Cheers J
@@johngriffin618 We have them sheared each year and as long as it is done each year they are OK. They are natively from the mountains in Peru so are used to extremes.
there are companies that will print for you, very high quality
@@cdoublejj 💰💰💰
I used to run production knitting machines at my old job. There was no way you could get those things to run on half needles, also the needles were only about an inch long and broke constantly, and in various interesting ways. The biggest difference I see with yours is the guide. The ones I worked with moved the tips of the needles in a sine wave rather than a broken triangle wave, and both the bottom and top guides were full separate ring pieces that could be moved independently to bias the tolerance to the leading or trailing edge, which was important for different stiffnesses of the thread. They also moved extremely fast. Probably at least 300 RPM, if not 600. They used the same sort of belts used in automobile engines, and the tension had to be set with a special torque slip ratcheting wrench to get it just right. I'm mostly impressed by just how similar that thing is to what I worked with, given that I wasn't allowed to record how cool they were for "corporate espionage" reasons... had to sign an NDA and everything... expired now, but still.
That's awesome. Thank you. Cheers J
What a brilliant project. This brings back so many memories of my 1st job as a 16 year old (some 35+ years ago) where I was trained as a sock knitting machine mechanic in a large hosiery factory in Nottinghamshire. I spent 4 years there before being made redundant.
Your machine is most impressive and works in a very similar way to the large commercial machines that I worked on in the mid and late 80's
Wow that's awesome. Thank you so much. Cheers J
How did the industrial machines make heels?
@@CycleRayinOK they operated in a reciprocating mode rotating clockwise then anticlockwise through 180 degrees
@@philallin5071 can 3d printers do same clothing as fast fashion at less time
This is one of the handful of home 3D printed items I’ve seen that is actually useful and not just some toy. Well done.
Thank you so much. Cheers J
I love that you documented the whole process! Part of the reason i haven't tackled a circular knitting machine with my 3d printer is the process of building. RUclips "shortrow heels circular knitting machine" and you'll get the heels you're looking for with manual manipulation! A usual hand knitted stock is about 64 stitches with fingering weight yarn, 40 stitches is a wee bit small for an adult foot. This is Hella cool and I'm glad you posted
Thank you so much. Cheers J
So I'm in my 60's, and spent a lot of time working with these - toys as a child and very expensive professional machines lately. I'm too old to get into 3d printing, but these are pretty cool. I think your weights might be too heavy - basically you just want enough weight to keep the yarn from popping up into the previous stitch. Too heavy and you'll stretch your yarn and stitches, causing the knitted item to shrink up once you take it off the loom. Also, you can get claw weights. They're multiple smaller weights with a claw on one end that you hook into the knitting, then can move up as your knitting gets longer. If you want to make a flat panel rather than a tube, you can by skipping a couple needles, but you have to be able to reverse the spin (there's lots of RUclips videos on how to do this). A yarn guide made of wire bent into a loop at one end and attached to the board at the other would make the tension better also. Very cool idea tho!
I’m 72 and my 3d printer arrives tomorrow, plan is to make a circuit sock machine- no such thing as too old!
LOL, I'm famous at last, just noticed you using the dog bone plugin I wrote for Sketchucam many years ago 😁😁
Well done it was you. It's great. Cheers J
Ingenious!
And then I heard ‘I actually want to build my steam engine’… If I wasn’t excited before, I am now 😊
Great video as always Joshua - you are a very talented (as well as highly entertaining entertaining), chap 👍
Thank you so much for your kind support. Lots more to come. Cheers J
After WW2, when my family were refugees in Austri, there was a man in the same barracks who had a sock knitting machine. Everyday, he knitted socks and every night my grandmother would take what he had made during the day and take it to the farmers who needed such things as were given to the refugees as clothing. She would come back just before the sun came up carrying eggs, bacon, and vegetables in the pockets she had sewn in them to carry out the clothes. That was shared with the man and his family. Because of that incident, I have always wanted a sock knitting machine.
Thank you for making this video and showing me that an anycubic kobra can print the components of such a thing.
Wow thats an awesome story. thank you. cheers J
Back again. I bought a kobra 2 based on this video and printed two Benchies. The first print used the PLA sample sent with the machine, the second I bought to actually make the sock knitter. Now I ask the technical question. What slicer program did you use and did you paint a seam line on your models? Also, I ordered an xtool laser that you had used in your fabrication of the base. I can't wait for it to come in. I hope that you could create videos showcasing them both as this was the best investment I made in regards to tools I can use and create with. All the best.
@@markgelinas8114 Hi. Well done. I used Prusia slicer for the Kobra2 as the machine came with pre settings in the usb for it. I've got 2 videos on the xTool D1 already out and I'm currently finishing a new video on the S1. Cheers J
My daughter has been on me about making one of these machines and here you make a video about making one. What design software do you use?
Thank you. I use SketchUp pro 2017. Unfortunately it's no longer available and the current version is overpriced. Cheers J
@@joshuadelisle would it be possible to get your sketchup file(s)? I have a couple ideas on how to tinker with the design, and would like to start with something that isn't just the .stl.
I believe this is exactly how the Victorians did it.
Definitely. Cheers J
Your determination to understand your printer’s problem is only matched by your patience with the knitting machine!! I also use/teach 3D printing but my bigger passion is aluminum casting. Petrobond sand at first, a little lost wax, but now lost foam.
Nice. I have a foundry too which I'm hoping to try soon. Cheers J
Much better helping individuals with charity, big organisations spend too much money on marketing and admin. Good on ya pal :)
Please tell us there will be a steam powered sock maker!
Lol. Well the steam engine is on the way so the power it generates will power everything hopefully. Cheers J
I tried designing a 3d printed knitting machine a while ago... This is really impressive. Well done.
Also saw you did a fundraiser for Samaritan's Purse in a previous video - I'm part of their DART team, deployed to Iraq and the Congo (Ebola).
Subscribed.
Thank you and well done the Samaritans purse do great things. Cheers J
Amazing work. Provided your machine allows you to crank back and forth, you should be able to do heels and toes as its all done by manual needle manipulation. I use an Erlbacher Circular Sock Knitting Machine. But even if you just do tubes, you can create an "Everything Afterthought" sock by picking up stitches and knitting the heels and toes by hand if you wanted to. Look forward to seeing more.
That's definitely a possibility I'll have to practice at. Cheers J
You’d have to learn how to knit by hand, but doing an afterthought heel is possible with machine knit tubes. You could then also add toes and cuffs. Still a speedy outlay and possibilities for multiple pairs quickly.
Definitely. Thank you. Cheers J
Do you have fume extraction in your workshop ? I had to do it recently due to multiple 3d printers, a laser cutter and ozone fro high-voltage experiments. Mine is all going into the back neighbour's garden :)
Currently I just have the doors open and a through draft. I have extraction for the co2 lasers though. Cheers J
Here in the US, it costs more to ship a fleece than it does to buy one so the profit margin dramatically shrinks. The math is(on the cheap end) ~$120/ 8lb raw fleece to buy, another $30-$50 to ship. Plus supplies, we can round up to $200 or $25/lb of raw fleece. However, we lose 15-30% of weight from processing. So our actual costs is around $34/lb of spun yarn. We might get 4 pairs of socks per pound. Even if you sold at $20/pair you're looking at a gross of $480ish. Factor in overhead not included, like electric, water, and space with the man-hours and you're barely making a liveable wage IF you can sell 100% of everything you make.
Once upon a time, fiber production was profitable. Smart producers, even small scale ones, invested in milling onsite and are making great profits. So while this is a great topic to play around with, you should look at bond knitting machines next, the problem with fiber production isn't the lack of machinery, it's the dwindling profit margins from small batch processing. You need to design and make an industrial size knitter to make an impact.
So I'll leave thees BANGCHEE runnin
Jokes aside I wanted to correct you on something. The best accuracy will always come from a bowden, not a direct, for the simple reason that the carriage on a bowden is considerably lighter since it's not taking a stepper motor along for the ride. That makes them print considerably faster without losing precision but introduces larger retractions which like you said makes them a bad idea if you want to print tpu.
Good video.
Can anyone tell me how long to cut the needles. I've printed all the pieces and I just need to know how long the needles need to be. I would love any help you could give me.
I cut up to the sticky outy bit. Cheers J
We built one of the MrRoboto19 knitting machine. Works but the flippers on the drum and the gear mesh is pretty finicky. Are you planning to add a ribber to your design?
Hi. I think I want to move onto a wool processing plant with a washer, carder and spinner. I think I'll move back to the knitting and weaving side after. Cheers J
You should try a version using printed plastic needles. I have a knitting machine that uses plastic (injection molded) needles, and it's for larger yarn. I've always wanted to make a fully 3D printed knitting machine using plastic needles (probably need to be vapor smoothed).
Well, I was going to ask my son to 3D print me so I could make his sister socks. She has an extremely rare medical condition but this assembly is way to complex for me. I will just continue to try to knit them with needles. So far it is ME :0 Needles :4. But I will win, one day.😂😂
Absolutely love it. I have a bunch of the hefty flatbed machines and have always loved the simplicity of the CSMs, and especially appreciated the size of them not being like a meter long. I have wanted to print one for a long time (and wanted to have the fun of attempting to design one for myself) and your version has made me properly consider that again. A flatbed with a ribber can do pretty much anything these sock machines can in terms of making a tube, but they have issues with tension matching between beds and also evenly weighing down the peices because the edges pull in differently to the middle. One day I hope to own a CSM and this has made my chances a lot better, especially with the relatively few parts
Thank you. All the very best. Cheers J
On 3D printers, you'll find bearings with a groove made for exactly that timing belt. It makes sure that your belt won't slip off like it will easily do with such a naked skateboard bearing.
You're cool!!! I also have Cobra2, everything is fine with PLA, it's hard to set up on PETG....
Prusa slicer sucks when compared to Cura. It’s less user friendly, less beginner friendly, and less capable a slicer. Plus, it’s borderline proprietary to Prusa machines.
My mom was an avid crocheter, taught me even. Since she is older and hands don't work ask well. I've often wondered if there was a way to have one of these knitting machines that would do squares, ie granny squares, to sew together. I'm not mechanical enough to design it though.
If it was small scale you could use it to create nice cable sleeves
This is wild. :] CSMs are insanely priced and you just cranked(lol) this out in a week and it works just as good. A+
Did add and lubricant to the gears inside?
I did. Yes. Cheers J
@@joshuadelisle I was thinking I could use a old micrvave motor as a drive but the movement the wasnt smooth enough in my estimation.
@@amoreyjones565 you could easily add a stepper motor and program controls via an Arduino. Cheers J
😂 just a copy of PRYM knitting machine from the 50's, also the needles look exactly the same
Came here to watch cool sock knitting machine...got *DISSAPOINMENT*
That benchy looks pretty rough honestly. Weird stuff on the railings almost looks overextruded
for self sufficient energy, i just had the thought of what if someone 3d printed a mini nuclear reactor lmao. i wonder how much work that would be.
Intresting machine there.. and Steam engine you say...hhmmm now you've really peaked my interest lol
Correction:
Tubular scarf knitting machine.
I think, that sells better.
Me out of habit looking away from the Lazer then realizing I'm dumb....
Have you tried orca slicer yet? I used to use prusa slicer religiously, but I was blown away) still am) by orca. Now it's my everyday slicer
Oh, and awesome video mate, well explained build. I might just have to try it myself 😁
Thank you so much. I'll check it out. Cheers J
print your own belts, I already did print some belts for audio equipment cassette decks, turntables.
What you've done is a leg warmer. Not a sock, but super cool anyway.
Wow my idea of turning my husky's shed fur into clothing actually feels within reach
You should have just glued a rubber strip to the wheel and the rubber hose wouldn’t have had a issue. More grip and it would have lasted longer then the belt with ridge’s.
Where can I leave a Done Asian? Is there an address I can send him to? (Jk keep up the good work!)
I like this! I'm toying with the idea of getting a 3D printer for robotics.
12:52 - and now you don't need to wait for a nigerian prince to find you - you find him (kind of russian reversal magic)
Thanks! May I have a computer-controlled Jacquard loom one day?
Knitting is manly AF! You make warm clothes out of sticks and maths.
"Dirty hands - clean money" :))
Use to make the green belts on bowling machines, just take a knife and put a 45 degree taper, bonds better
"farmers are losing money producing wool" looks like yur in my wheelhouse. Welcome to my zone bro. That might be true with bulk wool. But as a hobbyist you will, most likely, never see those prices. I gave 50 dollar for a raw fleece and not a particularly good fleece either, (sheep liked to roll in things, and the fleecer didnt have much concern for the textile artist so lots of little fibers). But im no where near wool country. Why? because I have a carding machine and a drop spinner and my gf buys overpriced balls of acrylic fiber.
Around me they burn or compost the fleeces because they can't sell them. Cheers J
can you make some thing similar to knit a t shirt and a short ...it can make a lot of difference in third world countries ...!
Can i please buy this from you 😩
(I'm not even joking😅)
I'm picturing the "I should buy a yacht" meme but with the words "I should make my own socks" instead.
Lol. Cheers J
You definitely do not need to be running a brim on most of those parts with PLA+ and that build plate
Absolutely love your altruism. Humanity isn’t over with yet.
Not yet but it's not far off destroying itself. Cheers J
its so fascinating to see 3d printed design actually making a sock that nice. :D good job mate
Thank you. So much. Cheers J
I like the knitting stuff I think you're not a manly man if you don't like comfy socks
It's difficult not to upvote your video...
My idea is that there should be TWO machines (done by you ): one for round stuff (you did) and one for "layers" stuff. Then, people just have to knit the links between parts and they can easily do pull-overs and patches with little efforts. "The fashion industry hate this guy" (note : you answer almost ALL comments !! wow)
Thank you so much. Definitely something for a future video. Cheers J
Maybe its an England English vs American English thing but when you say "natural fibers" are you talking about finished natural fiber products, Natural fiber cloth, or natural fiber thread/yarn? This sock machine products a type of finished product, but you would still want a different machine to spin the wool, and 2nd different machine if you just wanted flat fabric (though if you can build this, I'm sure you could build a flat loom (or whatever they're called)
Natural meaning non synthetic such as wool, cotton, linen, netal, hemp etc.
I made the same mistake trying to hide the seams, much better to have them than have acne :)
Lol. Definitely. Cheers J
Try making a double cyl machine with 3 feeds and colour patterning ;) I used to work at Bentley Eng Ltd: makers of Rolls Royce 2xcyl knitting machines.
Nice. cheers J
Hey Josh, amazing video!! How much should I cut the hooks tails ? I just printed everything and the movement works very well, but I got confused with the hooks size. Thanks in Advance
Thank you so much. Cut the tails flush with the sticky outy bit. Make sure they are smooth too. Cheers J
I run Sketchup 2017 so I can use the free desktop version.. I also uploaded all my favorite plugins for easy all-in-one installs. Do you have a list of the ones that you like to use?
Hi. I recommend the weld, flatten and stl plugins. Cheers J
Great Project!. Two questions. Why did you chose this original design over the one from Mr. Roboto? What are the key differences? Also, is it me or are the files with the timing belt missing at all? Thanks in advance.
Hi. I've not looked at the Mr roboto one yet. I'm not aware any files are missing but I can check for you if you like. Cheers J
Love this video. You know you could have printed a yarn baller too👍
I wonder why don't you print it from PETG? It has lower friction coefficient, less prone to wearing out or crumbling of sliding surfaces. It's just better for this type of appliaction.
And if you make the grooves for the belt wider, you can just make a full and a half loop on them providing much more grip compared to the basic half loop configuration you used while not needing a home made infinite timing belt or a tensioner mechanism.
I did in the last video but I need a dryer which I don't have as petg always has moisture problems for me. Cheers J
i'm only a few minutes in, but I doubt you need a brim for any of those prints.
I'm not sure how I got here, but this machine is really impressive! It ticks all the boxes for me. I'm a big fan of 3D printing and I own several machines. I also have a 100-watt laser. When I saw the rooster in your video and heard it crowing, I instantly felt a connection. As I kept watching, I became more and more engrossed. Your passion for helping others and the fact that your daughter is involved too really brightened my day. Keep up the fantastic work! I can definitely see a sock machine in my future.
Thank you so much. There's definitely more to come. I've got raw fleeces I got for free from a local farm. I'm going to design a wash and dry system, a carding Machine, a spinning wheel and a new sock machine with ribber. It's a lot of work but I'll make it available for anyone to print and laser cut. Cheers J
@@joshuadelisleI totally love it, your channel is great. It inspired me to fire up my 100 watt laser this last weekend and make some cell phone holders! I may need to dust off Etsy and get a few listings up.
@@1620GarageAndFarm well done 👍. Cheers J
Those green prints looked so clean! Lawnmower/hoover belts might work and wont need to be cut / joined :) I think knitting can be manly. I learnt to knit nets when i was younger as my grandad was a pest controller using traditional methods (ferret/hawk/purse nets). Today i do the pest control and use that skill all the time, comes in very handy and saves a fortune!
Thank you so much. Net knitting is definitely something I want to learn. Cheers J
M8, that's not incompetence. That's R&D. It's very common to build multiple prototypes, each with their own set of issues. That's the point of prototypes after all, you build them to find the issues with the design so you can iron out the kinks. There may be someone smarter than me who can, reliably, just get it right the first time around but that's not applicable to most people so they're not really relevant here and I ain't met them yet so I doubt they exist.
Thank you but most of it was just silly mistakes or things I forgot to change. The R&D I've done before has more notes, analysis and planning rather than winging it like I did here. But your right R&D in general definitely produces a lot of waste from many attempts. Cheers J
Hmmm…. There’s a thought bubbling in the back of my mind to use this with something less fuzzy to make a tube sock for laying up composite tubes for rockets. Those tubes are super expensive.
sounds like a plan. cheers J
I've watched several people try and make a 3d printed sock machine.. and I think this is the first time I've seen it work, Bravo!
Thank you. It still needs improvement but it does work. Cheers J
Hemp is a natural fiber it takes 6 months to grow meaning you can grow it twice a year
Please let me know if you ever get one working with the heel! I am in higher-end IT, but my wife and I also own a fiber goat and sheep farm. My wife shears, cleans, cards, and spins the wool/fiber herself. She would be ecstatic if i could print her one of these on my CR6-SE. I know they make these for Hats too, though we havent tried them yet.
Entered your laser cutter raffle. I'd love a CNC for the workshop. When the farm expenses stop bleeding us dry one day, I want to pick one up!
And you are right by the way. It's a losing battle to try to make money on just the wool. You have to do everything from animal to final product to mostly break even, and it's a ton of work. Labors of love though. -73
Thank you so much. I'll certainly try again in the future to get it working with a ribber also. I'll also work on a wash plant and auto feed carder and spinner.
Cheers J
@@joshuadelisle awesome!
I would never have thought that as a man I would watch man knitting socks.
like youre honesty man.. refreshing! had a mad idea!
you mentioned your steam engine. ive watched your vids about the diesel heater, which were cracking may i add, now this is just a brainfart, why not use the exhaust as the heat source for said steam engine? all about efficency!?
Hi. Thank you so much. It's a possibility although not it's enough heat to generate anything useful and I get wood fuel for free. Also a wood burner is a better option for self reliance and not being dependent on government controlled resources. Cheers J
I love what you have done with the CSM design and I would love to compare notes. The straight knitting hooks will be a problem eventually since they don't work well for tailoring areas like the heed and toe. The belt drive is very clever to avoid the slippage issue, but it makes the calculation of the ratio of handle turns to rows knitted a little more difficult to track. Maybe a chain drive like a bicycle? Also, I noticed that your design on thingiverse has a no-derivatives, non commercial license. Does your statement at the end of the video inviting derivatives trump that license? Where can I best reach out to talk with you about this project?
Thank you so much, those are good tips. I'll look at the copyright as I just clicked what I thought was needed at the time but can sure make changes to it for your own use no problem. Cheers J
If you added an electric motor to it that would awesome. either way great work on this
Whow did the algorithm never suggested me your channel?
Anyway, apologies for being late to the party. Subbed from now :)
Thank you so much. Welcome. Cheers J
What happens if you oscillate the knitting on one side intermittently? Could you make a curve? Could you just have the needles and the shuttle computer controlled to determine when to knit extra on one side to make the sock's heel?
Yes exactly that. You're meant to add Extra lines of knitting on one side only and then continue on after to create a curve. Cheers J
Love this, but whoa, you need ventilation for the laser cutting! Like at least a hood with a strong inline fan above it. I ended up making a sealed enclosure around my D1 with a dedicated ventilation duct. the glues involved in sheet woods will always give off cancerous gases when you laser cut it.
Your not wrong. I do have the big doors open but you're right it's not good to breathe. Cheers J
thank you so much for showing your failures as well. everyone that's ever made anything knows it's never smooth sailing, even in the era of computers and rapid prototyping.
Thank you, I'm glad it was helpful. cheers J
What was the design tool you were using in this vid? It looked like it *might* be Rhino, but I haven’t used it in long enough that I’m sure it has changed a lot visually
It's an old version of sketchup pro. Cheers J
Unnecessary comment about "Knitting is not manly but its been industrialized by men"! Why? Cant you just show your machine without connecting it to stereotypes?
The machine itself is amazing though!!! Thanks for sharing it with us!
Because I genrally do sterio typical content aimed at men and 99.99 of my wachers are men, whilst in todays culture 99% of knitters are women and so there is a culturally accepted stereotype that knitting is a womans genre. so I'm addressing my followers that that there is a need for men to be involved in modern solutions in the textile industry. Cheers J
@@joshuadelisle "but it was definitely men that industrialized it" kind of sounds like you're calling women stupid, and ignoring centuries of female labor in the textile industry.
@@bag0k I'm saying both sexes have played a part in the development of textiles and knitting is not just for one stereo type. My audience is 99.99% men I normally do content that is stereotypical for men. It's also a fact. Cheers J
a scuffed up print bed is totally fine. my ender3 has seen better days and my prints are fine
I seriously think i might just print one of these off. Tbh I've always resisted using any mechanical knitting aids as I thoroughly enjoy knitting by hand but I made one if my daughters a tube scarf years ago and it was literally weeks of knitting to get the 8' long scarf she wanted. Seeing this machine i can already see that I could print off and build dozens of them for the same amount of time I spend knitting one scarf by hand
They're definitely very efficient. Cheers J
THE LASTY COMMENT!! Be a doer not a watcher!! much needed advice for me... Thanks!!
Thank you now go do stuff. Cheers J
Why not get a printer without a "common fault" that just works great, every time...instead of a clone...for way less money?
Im trying. I find faults in all of them. I consider it my responsibility to find them so you the purchaser knows exactly what to expect. Cheers J
buying my socks is a WHOLE LOT cheaper 😂😂