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Distinctly Average
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My first nightmare day.

Yesterday I spent hours in.learning fusion 360 (what a frustrating bit of software) creating an iPhone to scope mount. Printed it and it was a wonky mess. I just couldn’t understand it. So today I switched to printing some anti-vibration feet downloaded from here. It just kept failing. I re-sliced it, tried brims, did all sorts and it just kept failing after initially looking good. Cleaned and re-cleaned the bed but it still kept failing to adhere. Lots of cleaning the nozzle and block after a birds nest soup issue and my heckles were up. So I tried running first layer test and it looked terrible with half the square missing, and the other half perfect. Tried a couple of times with the same, I had gone from perfect prints every time to blooming nightmare.

So had a break, a couple of cans of temper relaxant, also known as lager, then went back to it. Funny how a break can help you spot the bleeding obvious. At some point yesterday I had re-fitted the steel sheet, probably late and in low light. I had unknowingly hooked it on one of the locating pins. Arrgggghhhhhhhhhhhh.

Felt like a total muppet, always go back to basics and think about what might have changed. Enginerding rule 1, and after a career in engineering and IT for the last 28 years I failed on the basics. Rule 2 is beer always helps.

Posted : 23/01/2022 11:04 pm
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Zoltan
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RE: My first nightmare day.

Do not worry, you are not  the first neither the last who did so 😆 

even an old man can learn new things 🙂
Standard I3 mk3s, MMU2S, Prusa Enclosure, Fusion 360, PrusaSlicer, Windows 10
PRUSA MINI+ Prusalink + Prusa Connect

Posted : 25/01/2022 5:32 pm
burtronix
(@burtronix)
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RE: My first nightmare day.

Ah, yes. When I started reading your problem, I was going to recommend you look for a stray piece of filament under the sheet. Glad you found the real issue.

Whatever you find to do with your hands, do with all your might!

Posted : 09/02/2022 2:25 pm
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