How it started and how it ended
It’s not a solid mass of plastic around your hotend. That’s a small win at least.
It’s so fluffy! But if you must print unattended*, get you a spaghetti detector cam! Your printer will stop printing within seconds to a couple minutes of something going terribly wrong.
*This still doesn’t make unattended printing safe, just slightly less wasteful.
Friendly reminder that 3D printer are a fire hazard and it’s a bad idea to print unattended.
I agree with you mate, but how do you deal with long prints like 12 - 24h? Im printing at home for many years and since day 1 I plan to get some fire protection like ampoule. There are no signs of fire hazard in OPs failure, but your comment made me think again and maybe Ill stop being lazy and cheap. Gonna do some research right away
You can set up your printer in the same area you work in (if you work from home), and audio fire alarms can be used
My father used a web camera and a remote controlled solid state power relay on his tabletop CNC that he locked away in a separate room so he can look after it
Once you’ve seen how the heater cartridge melts the aluminium hotend and liquid aluminium setting everything on fire, it drops onto, you never print unattended again! For longer prints I always wait until the weekend, before starting it. As well I pause the print and turn heatbed and the nozzle heater off, before heading to bed. This method isn’t perfect, as it adds another possibility for failures, but until now it worked everytime. My last print succeeded after ~28h (print time only) this way. Another option is, to divide your model into smaller parts, which are easier to print and glue them together, when everything is finished.
I was just thinking anytime you can make something more modular, do it.
Whoa, can you share the STL?
1:1 replica of the Statue of Liberty.
Why I like SLA/resin printers in one picture. (Well at least it’s not an impossible to remove blob of plastic on your extruder)
And what is this?
I think the more accurate question is, what should it have become? ;)
It was supposed to be sci fi lasagna but ended up as boring old spaghetti.
Ok. Dump me. Didn’t see what community this is. Sorry for that. I know that feel 😥
