SodaStream - Flaschenreiniger / Bottle Cleaner

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If you've got a Sodastream and like sweet beverages you surely know the problem: After a while you'll get more and more concentrate and other grunge deposits inside the bottle. Still works at the beginning, but sooner or later the grime gets so obvious you'll save the "good bottle" for your visitors and hide the others out of view. There's no tool long and slim enough to reach every spot inside the bottle, dishwasher is out of the question, dish liquid, soaking over night and meaty prayers also won't help. That got on my nerves severely – so here's a special cleaning tool for Sodastream bottles. **Cleaning**: Soak the bottle with water and a few drops of dish liquid, preferably the inside. Rip off a slim strip of paper towel, fold into three layers to make it thicker. Pull through the slits so the paper covers the top and tighly sits in the slits. Never fear – it won't get loose as the edges are quite sharp. Moisten with some water and a few drops of dish liquid, then clean the inside bottom to top, row by row. With some practice, this won't take a minute. The bottles come out astonishingly clean. And if you like drinking Cola, you'll also learn how to magically turn white paper towels into black. **Printing**: PLA, 0.4 mm nozzle, 0.2 mm layer height – or anything else; it's not about beauty. Recommended printing speed: 40 mm/s – at least for the first layer. But: Slim and long makes prints go wrong. (Ancient German saying.) Ends of long and slim prints tend to loosen from the printing plate and snafu everything. So: Glue stick to the rescue! Print a skirt first, cancel the print, move the printing head up. Now you've got a template for applying the glue. Make it so (with some effort), a strip in the middle will do. Apply glue generously at the ends – that's the places where the filament wishes to try the Jesus thing with ascending to the heavens. Pull off the printed skirt, restart the print. That way it should work at first try. According to print settings and printing plate it also works with the glue – but your instant success changes are better with some sticky help. PETG? Don't even think about it. I already printed some miles of filament – but had to give up red-faced and blasphemous swearing after the sixth try. Of course you may rotate the model with your slicer software and call in supports – but I wouldn't go that extra mile of hassle. By the way: You'll need a print bed of 20 x 20 cm at least. Impossible to make this thing any shorter, length is borderline already.