Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472 with a side project for the week. Let\u2019s get started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wanted an easy post this week, as the past two weeks have been downer endings, and 3D printing has been on by background list for a while. For reference, I have a Monoprice Maker Select Plus I got for Christmas several years ago. Since then, I\u2019ve learned that 3D printing is almost more about maintaining your machine than it is about actually printing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wanted to print up a part I need for a planned project, but no matter what I did, the bed wouldn\u2019t level out for me. The back, right corner kept turning up as too close to the extruder, even when at the end of its adjustment screw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I reached out to relevant help channels, and someone from the Sweetie Bot Project\u2019s Discord server informed me of new ways my model of printer was a low-end tool\/high-end toy. My print bed is warping over time, though I cannot test it with a ruler or triangle because of a bad spot in the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My solution was to find an Allen wrench and raise the Z-stop switch a notch. I leveled the bed again, and I was just barely comfortable enough with a flat test print to try a Benchy. I came back to a failed print. When I got around to servicing it properly, the filament was snapped off \u2013 my filament is wet from improper storage over a period of humidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t have time to fix it and try again before posting, so this short post again turns into a downer ending. At least I learned a thing or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have a 3D printer, how do you manage how it absorbs humidity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow_8472 with a side project for the week. Let\u2019s get started! I wanted an easy post this week, as the past two weeks have been downer endings, and 3D printing has been on by background list for a while. For reference, I have a Monoprice Maker Select … <\/p>\n