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More problems resolved:

The Bowden tube was not seating fully, leading to clogs in the hot end. I reversed the tube due to the damage where the coupling held the tube and slight deformation at the end. I cut and sanded the tube for a better fit.

There was a clog inside the hot end and I cleared it partially with a wire. My guess was that the tube wasn't seating properly, causing the filament to bunch up in the wrong point. I heated up the hot end again to 250 and when I fed the tube in the clog loosened and both went up the tube and out the nozzle. After clearing the tube, I fed the filament and lowered the temp until it came out consistently.

Also, my esteps were not calibrated properly. 93 value gave me.... about 93 mm. Setting it to 100 gave me 98 mm. At 102, it appears spot on.

Finally, since the extruder gear appeared to be biting into the PLA, and due to the gear skipping, I loosened the tensioner some.

The fact that anything came out previously leaves me scratching my head. The saving grace had to have been that I leveled the bed before I began the previous print.

Not a request for help—yet, at least. Just showing off the gore from getting the printer working again.

It was living on the floor of the basement where my son dumped it after moving down there. I finally picked it to and gave it a home on my own work bench.

Initially, it was printing fine, but after the first dozen mm of PLA, it clogged up. Son didn't have the tool, so after trying to improvise, I ended up removing the nozzle. That was all good, except there was old pla in the nozzle. Second plan of attack ended up with me heating to 250 and plunging the chamber with fresh PLA until it started sputtering. I then returned the Bowden tube and dialed down the heat to 200. It seemed to hold, so I reassembled the hot end.

Next, I attempted to print again, but I had no tool heat. Power cycle and reconnecting to octoprint resolved that. Then I reversed and fed the filament until it ran properly.

As you can see here, the next problem was patchy, uneven extrusion. I found that the extrusion would continue with a little bit of pressure against the filament to the drive gear. That's where you see the dark patch on the right where it started working again on the second layer.

You can see the big gap in the middle, and it was as it was passing left over that spot I noticed that the drive bearing wasn't moving. so I first loosened the screw that held it in. I paused the print and removed the bearing, lubricating it with some PBlaster. Since that didn't resolve it, I found the tension bolt was loose and put it all the way to max.

Observing the printer further, I noticed that the drive gear was jumping back when it did not appear to need to be retracting. It was here that I realized it was a pressure/flow issue, so I paused the printer again and increased the temp to 205. Once it stabilized, it started printing smoothly again.

Below is the continued/rescued print. It's a rough draft, so the mess won't bother me. I feel safe enough now to walk away again and let it do its thing.

I broke a hard drive.

Also, I took too many liberties in the corner of the drive, but it's the first drawing I have made in a very long time.

I'm trying to encourage my kids to participate. I'll share if they want to.

I have been jamming to a djent musician for the past couple of months, and they have gone from about 10k subs to 40k on YouTube.

I think it would be nice to have content creators posting here, but I'm concerned about people complaining about YouTube and other platforms. Also, after the way Alex from Technology Connections was treated, I'd hate to see us get shitty reputation.

So, again, I ask before inviting them. What do you feel about inviting content creators? Is is invading your space? Do you welcome people just trying to make it? Would you rather keep them separate?

I don't think he was awake here, but sometimes it is hard to tell.

Eli loves swimming in lakes and rivers. He will lay in a stream and slowly blep up the water. He will, under no circumstances, go into the bath willingly.

Luckily, he is a good gentle boy and will allow me to put his paws in to get into the tub. Once he is washed and rinsed, we dry, and dry, and dry. We have to blow dry him after he is towel-dried or he will mildew.

Being blow dried is also one of his favorite things, which is good because it takes three people half an hour to get it done. It would go faster if I had one of those harnesses that stopped him from laying down and rolling over, but he will will over if you are gentle.