I never would have thought to print them at an angle like that, but thinking it through, I bet relative to other obvious-ish options, it a) improved part strength (particularly along the axes where you most need strength), b) saved a bit of material, c) improved bed adhesion. Smart move in general. I’ll have to keep that approach in mind for my own prints.

Probably isn’t going to be easy to track down. The only thing I’ve been able to find is this. The only things that match up are the last name and the timeframe (and even the timeframe isn’t perfect. September 19, 2009.) No idea beyond that whether that’s the “correct” Webber couple. (Also, the wedding registry page doesn’t mention whether Megan took the Webber last name. If not, and if the t-shirt is related, I’d think the t-shirt would use the term “Webber/Lange Wedding” or some such rather than just “Webber Wedding”. But who knows.)

I checked the Wayback Machine hoping an older version of the same page a) might be available and b) might have more information than the basically no information that the current version of that page has, but unfortunately they don’t appear to have any versions of that page saved.

The source of the page doesn’t have much information (aside from what’s visible in the page, the URL, or the title of the page) except for a zip code: 90049. Probably where Megan and Thomas live.

Again, no idea if that specific Megan and Thomas are related to the t-shirt. But I guess there’s a small chance.

Edit: I guess you could contact screen printing companies in LA near that 90049 zip code and see if you can find a screen printing company that will admit to having made that shirt. They might be able to tell you the story of it. If there’s a tag in the shirt, it might even say the name of the screen printing company.

The way I’ve embedded magnets in prints in the past was to:

• Design a magnet-shaped (plus like 0.2mm of clearance) cavity into the print, but leave it completely “closed off” to where it’s “inside” the print.
• But only “closed off” by like 2 or 3 layers (I was printing at 0.2mm layer height for this particular print).
• Use “pause at layer” functionality in my slicer (I used Cura at the time) to pause just before the first layer that would “close off” that cavity.
• Start the print and when it pauses, drop the magnet into the cavity.

Yes, I was a bit nervous about the magnet potentially jumping up and sticking to some ferromagnetic metal that’s part of the print head, but that didn’t happen in my case. YMMV, I guess.

I guess theoretically it could also be the case that the heat from printing could weaken the magnet, but again, that wasn’t an issue in my case.

Just to elaborate on what my project was, I had a freely-spinning part that I wanted to be able to fix in place or unfix. I fashioned a “stop” that when engaged would fix the freely-spinning part in place. The way it works is that the stop can move freely up and down. Putting it in the “down” position fixes the freely-spinning part in place and gravity keeps it engaged. But to disengage it, you slide it straight up. At the top of the “track” in which it slides is where I put the magnet. I used the same technique as described above to embed a little stack of about four staples into the stop itself. So, by sliding the stop to the top of the track, the magnet attracts the staples, keeping the stop disengaged until you pull it back down again to where gravity will keep it engaged until you move it back up.

as it gets better

Bold assumption.