indy4x
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I had assumed that the cause of the failure was one of the parts broke free but now I'm not so sure
This was the carnage
There were 9 identical parts on the bed and 1 of them definitely came lose early on in the print
After cleaning up the carnage I noticed the BL Touch probe had snapped off, again it seemed a reasonable assumption that the probe got caught in the mess and snapped
Anyways, turns out you can buy a pack of new probes, these arrived yesterday and a replacement fitted to the printer
Commenced bed levelling procedures and then discovered the part cooling fan is now toast. It's missing a few blades, noisy and speeds up and down
Managed to revive it but not sure how long it's going to last
Again, assumption is that the rats nest of filament caused the damage to the fins
So what's next, again tried levelling the bed and noticed the nozzle temp was showing as 365C, pretty sure that is a spurious reading as the printer has only just been powered back on
Put a meter across the wires and it has no continuity, this was measured at the connector about 3" from the heat block
Don't think I can put this down to the filament mess as there was no filament around the hot end
And finally, trying to level the bed, the printer seems unable to complete this, it seems to move the bed up towards the nozzle, changes its mind, moves back down and then realises somethings wrong and stops
Have a replacement fan and temperature sensor on order, should be here tomorrow and will get stuck back into it and try and sort out the various gremlins
Stuff your 3D printer has made today...
thread the other day of the mess I printedI had assumed that the cause of the failure was one of the parts broke free but now I'm not so sure
This was the carnage
There were 9 identical parts on the bed and 1 of them definitely came lose early on in the print
After cleaning up the carnage I noticed the BL Touch probe had snapped off, again it seemed a reasonable assumption that the probe got caught in the mess and snapped
Anyways, turns out you can buy a pack of new probes, these arrived yesterday and a replacement fitted to the printer
Commenced bed levelling procedures and then discovered the part cooling fan is now toast. It's missing a few blades, noisy and speeds up and down
Managed to revive it but not sure how long it's going to last
Again, assumption is that the rats nest of filament caused the damage to the fins
So what's next, again tried levelling the bed and noticed the nozzle temp was showing as 365C, pretty sure that is a spurious reading as the printer has only just been powered back on
Put a meter across the wires and it has no continuity, this was measured at the connector about 3" from the heat block
Don't think I can put this down to the filament mess as there was no filament around the hot end
And finally, trying to level the bed, the printer seems unable to complete this, it seems to move the bed up towards the nozzle, changes its mind, moves back down and then realises somethings wrong and stops
Have a replacement fan and temperature sensor on order, should be here tomorrow and will get stuck back into it and try and sort out the various gremlins