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Frustrating day with my printer.  

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Szumi
(@szumi)
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Frustrating day with my printer.

I haven't used my printer much lately but I found a project that got my interest.  Noticed that it must have been detecting a crash, then I got worse with layer shifts.

Last night I realized that I had a leak.  The filament was dripping on the part, hardening up, and the nozzle would crash.

Today after reading about hot end maintenance, I decided to tighten things up.   I found that my nozzle didn't have any clearance.  Managed to turn the body inward so there is a gap between the heat block and nozzle now.  I put a new .4mm nozzle while I was at it.  I've had this MK3 since October of 2020, it has been fairly trouble free.

Then I ran the calibration wizard followed by doing a first layer calibration.  I kept having problems getting good adhesion.  It would stick going the long way (l to r) but it would loose adhesion when the bed indexed away from me.  I got it as good as I could and started a print job.  First layer wasn't perfect but so far I'm not hearing nozzle strikes.

I cleaned the smooth powder coat each time with windex, normally that does it.  I do have a brand new smooth plate but I've kept it in reserve for when I think the original plate has wore out. 

Really frustrated, this printer is normally easy peasy, low effort and now it is being difficult.

 

 

 

 

 

Posted : 10/04/2023 9:18 pm
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