Pretty happy with my progress
The build was completed about 2 months ago. In that time I’ve gone through probably 5 KG of filament.
These stats are a little misleading, so here’s some detail behind them
- The majority of the shutdowns are the bowden tube getting caught between the gantry and the rear extrusion it rides on, causing y-homing to fail. I think I sorted that out now
- The errors were generally klicky mount errors while the printer was young. That’s also sorted
- I’ve only had one aborted print that was aborted more than 2 minutes into the actual print where I lost bed adhesion due to not adjusting my offset after decreasing my print temp and lowering pressure advance
- That 18h 22m and 22s was repeated three more times printing TPU treads for some ASA wagon wheels for the a wagon I’m messing with for my kids. At this point, I would call the printer pretty reliable and I’m treating it like my old I3 clone - if the first layer goes down well the print will go well
The printer is… fairly lightly tuned, but the quality is quite a bit better than my old I3 clone while printing faster. I’m sure I could tune more, but at this point I’m happy. I ran e-steps, got my z-offset nailed, ran a temp tower, ran Ellis’s pressure advance, and ran a retraction test (spoiler: it didn’t matter).
Here are some test prints that some of you may be familiar with. Everything is in ASA, 240 extruder temp, 0.4mm nozzle. Since I tend to print larger functional parts I’m going to probably move to a bigger nozzle.
Screws smoothly after running it up and down the threads once
Super Slicer’s built in retraction test. No stringing to see at any value
Voron cube
Same cube, cnother face, somewhat harsher lighting
Same cube, same face as two photos ago, very harsh lighting. It’s kind of amusing how bad the print looks with direct light at such a steep angle relative to the face. It would be kind of nice to improve this, but under normal lighting you’ll never see this.
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