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Can I fix a missing capacitor by just soldering the spot short?
  • No, you can't short the pads. If there's no capacitor there then there likely never was unless you can see obvious damage. Not all components are placed when manufacturing. A picture would help but it could be a decoupling capacitor which has been deemed unnecessary or not required for the model. So it's unlikely to be the issue. It could still be other capacitors that are getting old but it would be the electrolytic ones.

  • Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy?
  • In Swedish people often confuse de/dem(they/them kind of) and I honestly don't know exactly when to differentiate. You often learn to replace the word with another like vi/oss(we/us) to see if the sentence still sounds good and then you know the form you should use

  • [Ender 3 S1] Changing heatbreak PTFE

    I'm changing the PTFE in my heatbreak, I didn't realize these seem to be consumables. It started causing blockage.

    A guy sent me a piece of PTFE from his Prusa MK3S+ that I could try as i was having trouble finding any PTFE quickly.

    I realized I couldn't just cut a piece and put it in, that caused a lot of filament leakage and underextrusion. The end of the PTFE toward the nozzle was a bit jagged and I believe that's where the leakage happened. Now I'm wondering how the heatbreak and nozzle normally interface inside the heatblock, should they be touching? Should the PTFE protrude a bit from the heatbreak so there's a bit of pressure against the nozzle when I screw it in?

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    How do "most popular" filters work in online stores

    I'll sometimes filter based on "most popular" and the result will be that the top item is som expensive thing that makes me wonder if it's really the most popular. It seems obvious that this might just be a way for the store to manipulate buyers. Does anyone have insight into how these work and is there any real function behind them?

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    Bodes Galaxy

    This was the last object I worked on before I took a break. I think I got a total of about 8 hours of HaRGB. I used an NEQ6 mount and William Optics Zenithstar 73

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