Not at all surprised that my first prints weren't super successful. Not that I think I can but myself out of tuning the printer, or learning my feeds and speeds, but I ended up ordering a new build surface, brass nozzles, and a fresh roll of standard white PLA.

In the spirit of both tuning, and learning, I want to eliminate as many variables as possible. It's a used printer, so I don't know what kind of nozzle is on it, or how much use it's seen. I *do* know the build surface is a wavy mess that's seen its share of close contact with the hot end.

As far as the filament goes, I'm sure I could get the silk PLA going, all other things being in good order, but again, I just want to reduce the number of variables, and get past the first hump of a first completed test print, so I know I'm on the right track as far as setup, and then I can start focusing dialing things in.

I still think the bed needs some work, beyond just replacing the magnetic surface. Levelling the gantry helped some (turned out it was off by roughly half an inch!), And raising the Z-axis limiter helped some more, but that top left corner of the bed is still forced to be at its lower limit (tightened all the way), which is not ideal.

Not sure why the bracket under that end needs to be as thick as it is, but there's got to be a solution involving either the Z-limiter, Z axis offset, or combination of, rather than what my ghetto engineering instincts want, which is to sand that bracket a mm or so thinner.

Anyway, those are my thoughts thus far. I'll pick this up again tomorrow, after work, assuming my parts come at a reasonable time.

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