First layer and z-adjust  

First layer and z-adjust

I’m going slightly crackers here.  What with extruded clicking, SPINDA set way too low (needing to use -1.8 to get anywhere), jams at the extruder and at the hot end.

Although I've managed to produce a pretty good Benchy, the first layer calibration is driving me crackers.

And I think that I’ve just managed to gouge lines in BOTH sides of my steel sheet now, trying to adjust the Z-axis to the point where a print will adhere to the bed and not to my nozzle.

I’ve used about half a pint of IPA, so that's not been the problem.  Could be anything else though.

****ing thing is this close to going out of the window.

I'd post pictures, but if there’s a way to post direct from the iPad’s gallery I can’t see it (unlike every other forum I use), and I really cannot face transferring my pics from one device to another right now.