Red-Eyed Crocodile Skink - Articulated with Magnets

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Thank you Trejager for the great design and willingness to share! Try printing with TPU if you know how to do that as it turns out a great little lizard/skink. It's silent under articulation, extra robust, and not as sharp as a PLA printed version. Make sure you up your retraction or you'll have lots of strings. I was able to fix the strings with a heat gun and an exacto on my first print. On my second TPU print I upped the retraction to 8mm @ 35 mm/s (CR-10 V3) and all the strings went away. There are two remix versions here under "Thing Files". Option 1) Magnet pockets (x10 total at 6.4mm diam x 3.3mm deep) that are hidden by 2 bottom layers (0.3mm) which require you to pause the print at the last layer of the magnet pocket, insert the magnets, then send the print back on it's way. This is not hard to do in Cura. See Pictures for directions. [part name has "magnets_hidden" in the file] IMPORTANT NOTE with Option 1: You probably will need a drop of CA glue if anything on your print head/extruder is ferrous. I have a CR touch and the magnets would pop up and attach to the metal CR touch probe as it passed over the print. A drop of CA fixed it. Option 2) Magnet Pockets are open on the bottom and have a chamfer at 55° on the top of the pocket to help ensure they print without droops. Print the part, then when it's completely done, you can glue the magnets into the bottom. Not as clean as option 1, but just slightly easier to do if you don't want to mess around with pausing the print. [part name has "magnets_open" in the file] If you want to remix, please remix the original from Trejager. He did all the work here. I just made a very minor modification that other's have already done prior to the post being taken down in March '22 due to some sort of Thingiverse glitch.

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