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I’m not going to say it was smooth sailing but I think I’m through the rough waters. This past day I’ve been printing basically non-stop and every print has been pretty much flawless.

The days before this though I had:

Diagnose z-axis movement issues.
Accidentally printed PETG onto the smooth bed plate. (I knew this was bad but I just assumed it was bad adhesion, I didn’t realize the problem was the opposite LOL)
Broke the belt tension adjustment piece and had to drill holes into it to remove it and replace it with a piece I printed with PETG.
Diagnose a “ghost clog” where I took off the nozzle, found no clog, took apart the nextruder and found nothing and realized at the end it was bad filament.

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Foexle@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I wasn’t even able to put the printer together without reading the comments pointing to waaay too many flaws in the instructions.

Well, I learned that with the smooth plate the hard way too.

Don’t get me started on that one. The nut in the ajustmend-thingy broke loose on mine, after I had to tentioned the belts way too often, cause the Axis bent. I had to saw the screw of at the front to get it out. Whole process took me about a month.

I put the spacer hooks of the heatbed on the wrong way, and changing them when the printer is essembled. Well, a friend who repairs washing mashines for a living helped me out.

The ghost clog is interesting too. I’m on my third nozzle now, trying to clean number two and three. Seems like a clog on the seperation of filament in front of the vulcano-split (high flow) and by the love of god I can’t seem to het them unclogged. I soked them in cemecals to break the plastic-chains. The design is so annoying to get to in any way, cause at least as a amateur, you only realize the clog when its too late. (and I know that that might break some cotings of the hardened steel nozzle, but a this point, I tried anything else) So yea, I hope you’re printing adventure is smoother than mine.
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- idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oof that sounds rough. I hope it’s all fine now.
  
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