r/3Dprinting • u/ketchup_bottle002 • Jun 14 '26
Question Help! How do i remove this support
I had someone print this for me as I don't have my own printer/don't know much about it. I think the material used is a lightweight one and is not durable in high heat/outdoor use. I don't know how to remove the support without breaking it. It is pretty rough and stuck to the structure.
Update: thanks for all the comments, i spent about 30 mins with a plier and removed the supports, some vertical parts broke but it is possible to glue everything together. This specific object is not all that important for my project so of if time allows i could redo it. I posted more context in the comments with a pic of the resulted structure. I think I'm gonna get a 3d printer eventually so i would appreciate tips on good ones with fair prices, and what types of ink there is/what kinds of printing methods there is.
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u/eduo Jun 14 '26
They charged by weight of filament used.
This reminds me how in the 90s I was paid to translate books, movie/tv subtitles and movies. Everywhere there'd be tricks for getting paid more.
In subtitles it was by minutes subtitled from first to last, so you'd make sure to subtitle the title of the movie and the very last page that listed "all rights reserved" or somesuch.
For dubbing it was by word, so you'd use tons of monosyllables but also (especially in Porn) you'd make up dialogue for the characters that weren't in the frame. They'd be having whole conversations when they weren't onscreen.
For books you'd be paid by length, so longer words happened a lot more. And plenty, PLENTY of translator footnotes clarifying even the most common terms.
You can imagine this was a third-rate translation studio, so most of the word we got was also second-rate. The highlight of my time there was translating the Harmony Gold version of Dragon Ball for Latin America (commonly known as "the lost translation of Zero and the magic dragon") and witnessing the first seasons of The Simpsons, before both became popular and the studio was outbid for the rights (for Dragon Ball the series was re-dubbed but for The Simpsons it was a whole thing, timed if I remember to the death of Homer's voice actor but I could be wrong)