Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️I have resumed the folly of 3d printing after a nearly year long hiatus
place your bets until how long it'll be until I'm ranting about how printers are a sin against man and god
crashed my slicer
I'm printing a calibration cube because I don't know what state I left this printer in.
presumably in the standard state of "it kinda works but I don't trust it"
crashed my slicer again
and again
and again
third attempt worked.
I probably should have updated octoprint before hitting go, and I probably should have done some manually leveling, but hey, it seems to be printing so far.
also the filament has been sitting in a garage, loaded into the printer, for a year.
it's probably really shit by now. as soon as the cube finishes I'm gonna need to swap to something, anything, else
it's probably really shit by now. as soon as the cube finishes I'm gonna need to swap to something, anything, else
there's a lot of work that can and should be done on this printer, but it's all gonna be limited by the fact I can't stand up for more than 5 minutes
well, there's something going on with the z-axis, but it printed more or less.
I've also got to switch to a different power supply for the pi that's running octoprint, and upgrade the pi to a new OS (which requires backing up and restoring existing octopi settings) because my python is EOL.
so it's working, but I'm still sighing a lot
anyway I loaded new filament and I'm printing a chep cube again!
okay I printed a CE5P calicat after attempting to fix the z-offset issue. It still is horrible.
possibly this is mostly a temperature issue: I'm using the stock temperatures but I think I upgraded this to an all-metal hotend that needs to run higher?
Bits&Terminal Jeff@foone You may need to dry that filament. A food dehydrator running for a few hours would probably do, but an oven that can be set at 120F (140F is a little high but would do) (not C!) for a couple of hours can work as well at least for PLA.
Alternatively you can print with filament that is still vacuum sealed.
Note that at 140F in an oven the spool itself if in plastic may start deforming. Make sure it's on a cookie sheet (or other metal flat surface) and flip it upside down every half hour.
@jf_718 This red filament is brand new, I only unsealed it before doing these two prints
@foone Ah, in that case I'd bump up the extrusion temperature by 10C and see how that goes. Sorry, I read earlier in the thread that the filament had been exposed for a year but didn't realize it was another spool. My bad.
@jf_718 no worries. that's what I'm doing now, yeah: I bumped up the temperature to 210C and lowered the retraction distance a little. it's printing now