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Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters

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160 points Sami_Lehtinen | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 03:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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thrownawaysz ◴[03 Sep 25 06:39 UTC] No.45112875[source]▶
> I have not yet printed and tested this exact model!

Sadly that sums up the 3D printable scene perfectly. So many times I’v seen someone creating X for Y but they don’t have Y to test it but “it should work”.

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cluckindan ◴[03 Sep 25 06:46 UTC] No.45112918[source]▶
It’s not far fetched though. With careful design, prints often do work on the first try.
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bigiain ◴[03 Sep 25 07:54 UTC] No.45113295[source]▶
Sure. And it's given away for free, so complaining feels wrong.

But is it _too_ much to ask that they print their tweaked version 2 and test it before publishing it?

:sigh:

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zevon ◴[03 Sep 25 10:54 UTC] No.45114303[source]▶
Why don’t you print and test it and contribute to the documentation? Too much to ask as well? ;)
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1. nomoreofthat ◴[03 Sep 25 23:47 UTC] No.45121667{3}[source]▶
He is not the author. The author’s post would still say I’ve never tested this and leave people uncertain about whether it’s actually a viable design.

I feel like as a matter of policy or at least convention, people really shouldn’t be uploading models that they haven’t at least printed. It’s disrespectful.