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Oh no… is anyone good at untying knots?
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So, burned through most of the filament we got for Child.1's birthday. Until we have a chance to order some more, I remembered I had a 2 kg spool from the last time I tried to get into 3D printing and failed.
It's been sitting in my basement for... ten years or so.
But Child.1 also got a filament drier and wanted to try it out.
But the 2 kg spool didn't fit, so we wound some of it onto the 250 g spool... by hand. Then we put it into the drier and turned it on. Child.1 was happy how hot it got and was annoying it was going to take ten hours to finish.
About an hour into it, there was a loud crack as the spool of filament didn't quite explode but the entire spool did break itself into 3-10 cm long segments and turn itself into a porcupine. As we picked it up, chunks started slipping off into a carpet of white strips of plastic.
... I'm going to buy a proper spool of filament that isn't old enough to go to grade school.
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When I went to print the b-side z drives I ran into heat creep.
I had a bunch of successful prints through this (kilos of ASA) and had already printed nine or so hours of ASA earlier in the day.
I’m running a Xol mod with a cutter and the PTFE lengths weren’t specified so I estimated.
But it looks like I shorted myself on my PTFE just a bit and it ended up sliding back 1.5mm, apparently enough to creep and stop things up.
Edit: on closer inspection it also looks like I used the wrong inner diameter PTFE… I’m surprised it worked as well as it did.
🧵3/
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Here’s a new one for me.
My PETG spool wasn’t bound but was cooled improperly such that the filament was adhered to itself and broke, triggering a filament run out…three times… in a 40 minute print.
#Paramount3D disappointing me again. I’m glad I have some #Ambrosia materials coming for testing.
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LOVE these 3D printing fails from 2013 😂
(thanks to @bendaubney for this link)
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It's just one of those days.
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This is a new one for me.
I ran a successful race track and turned up my VF to a number I thought was reasonable and ran a print.
I’m running Polylite PETG and had some spool lifting in the AMS that bound it up but I cleared that and restarted the print only to come back to the printer shredding its own print, spraying little bits of PETG everywhere.
Not sure if it’s the filament feeding or the VF that wrecked it, will have to try again tomorrow.
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10mm was working until I canceled the print because I lost bed adhesion.
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First print of the new year. Off to a good start.
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Don’t forget to turn off minimum layer times in your slicer otherwise you may think you have invented some way to do pressure advance invariant PLA printing.
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@3dprinting #3DPrinting #3DPrintingFails I had a partially clogged (the two broken in the middle pieces) and then a completely clogged nozzle while printing 3 dwarfs’s bodies. Several cold pulls later I was able to reprint them, but I’ll never get this filament again! It is wet (I tried 3 colours and all are wet in different amounts); I dried them between 8 and 18 hours without any noticeable improvement in the print quality!
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Might just be me. But since I switched to a direct drive extruder, I have fewer skips, clogs, and unexplainable feeding problems.
Also, since I switched to CoreXY, I have fewer layer shifts and other weird artifacts.
Might just be a newer printer and higher build quality, but this is the biggest new change on my printer.
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@amd @3dprinting Here it is - I guess that it failed due to a combination of wet filament (I dried it for 12 hours- no change!), too thin walls and I over tighten it… I’ll reprint it with different filament and I’ll reinforce the walls or the whole shaft.
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@amd @3dprinting Do printed successfully, but broke at first use prints qualify for #3DPrintingFails? I have one from yesterday?
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@chrishuck @3dprinting I vote that we populate a #3DPrintingFails hashtag
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Everyone posts their #3DPrinting wins. But not every day is a good day in this silly hobby.
Today was a not good day. Not sure what happened here, I haven’t had the chance to investigate yet… I’ll update later once I can start taking things apart.