Different diet, Night Flight

My original Prusa Mini has been one of the printers I have been fighting with for awhile.  It kept having issues with poor quality prints and even complete jamming in some cases.  I have taken the hot end apart multiple times trying to tweak things to resolve the issue without success.  The other day I was doing a recollection of the timeline of the problem and I realized that the issues seemed to start when I began using a brand of PLA in the Mini that I had not used previously, even though I use this brand in all of my other printers, including the Prusa MK3s printers.  The Mini uses a bowden tube set up instead of direct drive where filament is pushed instead of pulled for most of it’s journey to the hot end.

To test my theory I ordered some different filament that I have been using without issue on one of my other Minis.  I threw that into the problem printer last night and got a clean print.  I was a bit frustrated with myself that I didn’t come up with this simple resolution earlier and I still need to do a few more prints until I can officially declare it as fixed.  I still have one more Mini to get working and then I can turn my attention to my CR10S Pro which has been sitting partially disassembled for at least a month.

After dinner last night I went out briefly on the Sherman to see how well the light worked.  I was very surprised at just how bright it was, throwing a long beam of visibility in front of me. It’s simple mount on a hinge allows you to adjust it’s angle in seconds to accommodate riding situations as needed.  It was yet another reason I am feeling an interest in swapping the Sherman into my EUC line up.