{"id":322,"date":"2023-11-05T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/?p=322"},"modified":"2023-11-05T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T19:20:46","slug":"xtool-d1-stem-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"XTool D1 Stem Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trying to replicate last years stem caps without much success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The XTool designs are on the github <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jastill\/InfernoMedalPlate\/tree\/main\/StemCaps\">repo<\/a>, but the settings seem off. It is either a different material on the cap, or the settings for the burner are incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1236-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1236-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1236-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1236-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1236-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1236-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_1236-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks and feels like the burn is too deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After inspection, the lens was filthy. This was cleaned along with much of the rest of the machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clarity of the prints improved after the cleaning. However, not to the point where it looked as good as last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is on the black, what appears to be powder coated Aluminum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cleaning the cap with Isopropyl alcohol one the burn was complete did make the results look a lot better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Red caps appear to be anodized, this requires that the burn is longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to replicate last years stem caps without much success. The XTool designs are on the github repo, but the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.astill.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}