Saw bad things through my webcam, paused print, came home to this.
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reddit.comPosted Mar 27, 2021, 1:50 PM UTC
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reddit.comI ran 1 flawless print on this filament prior to this fail without recalibrating everything so I thought I was golden. My BL touch push-pin ate shit during this fail. I have to go back through and watch the timelapse to see what I missed. I caught it roughly 3.5 hours in.
I know this inland silk lime pla is capable of producing a nice print, but I need to run a temp tower on it.
CA glued the part back together for temporary operation until I can reprint the gantry mount.
After everything is back up and running, i’m having bed leveling issues, first layer adhesion/curling issues between brim and part, so when I get off work today, I’m going to be spending my saturday night redialing everything in specifically for this filament that I will never use/buy again after the spool is gone.
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Looks like under extrusion. Have you tried leveling your bed and recalibration your e-steps? /s
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You can see the layer shift too
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F
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Look how the massacrered my boy!
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Look at it in a positive light: If the hotend carriage wasn't printed, and made of let's say aluminum, it could have broken your hotend, extruder, or something else.
Having a printed carriage is a fail-safe.
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Just change the bowden-tube, some hairspray for adhesion and it'll be good to resume 💁♂️
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That's why I never print a part for my printer out of pla. That filament will break if you look at it funny. I mainly use nylon and polycarbonate, with carbon fibre if I have it available.
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Was petg
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Oh that should be better, but still kinda weak
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Infill was shitty. Bumping those numbers up and increasing temp.
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Infill doesn't really contribute any strength to the part
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This is indeed a bad thing
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Ok seeing this makes me want to print a spare hotend mount real quick.
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This is why I keep spares of all my necessary printed parts.
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I am definitely glad I have put it out multiple copies of all of my stuff. it’s like it never happened now.
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This is why you should have at least 2 spares. One if main copy breaks, second if backup copy fails
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Can you explain the webcam and remote pause print setup? I need this in my life.
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There are multiple avenues, all start with a raspberry pi + picam m/webcam. You can route your octopi/octoprint instance through your router to a public ip, or vpn tunnel into your local network and observe that way. Alternatively you can run The Spaghetti Detective (regrettably had this off while i was running cable chains the previous 2 days).
Octoprint is a gamechanger and I’ve been using it from the getgo.
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There are also plugins for Octoprint, like Polar Cloud, that allow secure access without a tunnel. Wouldn't recommend making it publically accessible!
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Thanks! I will look into this!
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Oh man, i can remember my old gantry mount breaking and i didnt have a backup.
I sliced a zip tie in half hot-dog-ways and attached the hotend that way to print another.
It was horrid looking, but it allowed me to use the shitty print to print another.
And then when everything was ready i printed an extra because that was such a PITA
This is the way
I saw my DD mount melt while it was printing a new one in ABS
clutched it