In the room, Replaced

by Duf Anything and Everything

Last night I spent a good portion of the evening in the hobby room.  I was assembling some more EUC stands that I recently printed but most of the time I was working on getting my CR-10 printing better.  The CR-10 was my first “real” 3D printer.  The FlashForge Finder that I started with shielded you from much of the potential complexity in the 3D printing hobby.  The CR-10 has cranked out hundreds of prints for me over the last couple years.  It also has been a huge source of frustration as I spent hours troubleshooting various problems that have arisen. Since I bought my AnyCubic printers the CR-10 has seen less and use.  Unlike the CR-10, the AnyCubic printers just work without much user intervention.  I have had very minimal problems with them compared to the CR-10.

So anyway last night I spent most of my time trying to get the CR-10 printing well.  I changed the print bed and the hot end assembly.  When I did my final test print before going to bed I had to stop it as plastic was being drug around the surface.  I will give it another shot either this week or over my extended weekend.  If I can’t get it working satisfactorily, it may be time for the CR-10 to give up it’s spot on the work bench to something else.

I also had another tech failure last night as the UPS I have hooked up to my PC died.  Luckily I had a working but smaller UPS in the hobby room that I could hook up as a replacement.   My Chiron printer is still dead as well, which will require some extensive futzing by myself to get it going again.  It will be yet another thing to add to my to do list for the weekend.

I got notice that I am finally getting the result I hoped for with my Apple Watch repair.  Unlike the first time where they sent it back saying they could find no problem, this time I got an email stating a replacement watch is en route.  If first you aren’t successful, try, try again.