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  • beirut_bootleg is correct. With bed aheision issues, always start with washing the plate with warm water and dish soap and and a clean paper towel. Dry the plate with a clean paper towel. Keep your fingers from touching the plate's surface to prevent the oils from your skin coating the plate.

    If this doesn't solve your issue, then we need to try something else.

  • Ice cream with bacon!

  • Something to consider perhaps, Just a SWAG

    Printing temp? Too low of printing temps can cause poor layer bonding.

    Air currents. This is noticeable on open bed printers the most. But even enclosed printers can have issues with cooling fans being on too long and at too high of a speed.

  • Things you might try,

    Print something else. Just a small simple cube is enough. If it prints fine, then there is an issue with the model or slicer settings.

    If you suspect the slicer, maybe try using Orca slicer to see if that's the issue. If it prints fine with Orca, then purge everything Studio from your system and reinstall Studio.

    If all that fails, then reset your printer back to factory and start over again.

    And if that fails, buy a Mk4 or Core One.........

  • Listen to the silence and breather far cleaner air with the subtle hint of the scent of pine trees. Actually see the night sky and all the stars. See wolf and deer tracks in my yard. Watch the pair of eagles nest in my trees. See a family of otters swim by in the lake and hear the call of the loons across the lake in the mornings and evenings. I can, and do, forage the forest right outside my door. I can pick berries and mushrooms in their time and seasons. Or maybe just sit and whittle a stick and drink a cup or two of nice tea.

    These are all things I can do for free. How many of those things do you have?

  • I lived in the big city for a number of years. I figured it would cost me $10 one way or another every time I stepped out of the house at some point.

  • There is anonymity in a crowd. But the noise and odors are a constant intrusion. The sounds of the crowd, the traffic, and sirens is a 24/7/365 thing and it never stops. Nor is there any escape from it as long as you remain there.

    My nearest neighbor lives several miles away and people don't really bother each other here. There is nothing but trees between us. Visits are always preceded by a phone call or text.

    The silence here would be painful for city dwellers.

  • Depends on the season. I hunt, fish, garden, and forage in the forest. Sometimes, like this morning, I sit outside and watch the leaves turn pretty colors and fall on the ground. Or I stay up late and watch the Northern Lights if it's clear enough. Or I can watch a thunderstorm or blizzard roll across the lake. Right now I'm smoking bacon for the winter. I have the last pork belly curing to smoke Sunday and then it's on to the pork loins for Canadian style bacon.

    I don't need to go to movies, plays, fancy restaurants, or crowds of people. Give me a good pocket knife and a stick to whittle and I can be content with life. But this isn't for everyone. Not everyone can be comfortable enough with themselves to choose the solitude of a remote rural life. And youth almost always craves excitement over peacefulness.

  • I did say that for as reliable as I know turrets to be, (decades of run time 10 to 24 hours a day), this is not the proper application for one. Like you, I don't find the plastic parts to be very comforting.

    The idea, despite being misguided, is an attempt to keep those perfectly good older bed slingers out of landfills by giving them extra capabilities to extend their life cycles.

    Corexy IS faster and if you are a hobbyist buying your first or perhaps second printer I would recommend one and they are an excellent choice. But Bambu, Prusa, Soval, and Crealty still sell bed slingers for a reason.

  • I have no need of this tool changer myself nor am I selling them. But that Swapper IS the OG tool changer. Industry has been using that turret style tool changer since automatic tool changers have been a thing. So there is no new idea involved in this design, just the application.

    Those turrets are dead reliable on machining centers and seemingly never wear out. At least I've never had to repair one, even on 30 year old machines. To be fair, those are made from hardened steels parts. And not the plastic of the Swapper. Still the design IS well proven on production floors across the planet.

    Fun side note: If you look at the photo on their web site, the turret shows 25 slots. But you can't load 25 tools, you can only load 24. Because you always need 1 empty slot in the turret to make the first tool change. The 25th tool is already loaded in the print head.

    As far speed goes, it's not like you are actually making the tool changes manually. The turret is still much faster than you and the AMS/MMU systems that are common today. Is it as fast as the Prusa XL or Snapmkaer U1? Nope. But speed matters a lot less than being dead reliable. And the Snapmaker or the Bondtech still remain unproven in that regard. The Prusa XL has been proven to be pretty damn reliable, if expensive. If you want a low cost entry, then the AMS/MMU is the proven system.

    My personal opinion about the Swapper is-- a cool try, but this isn't the correct application for this design. It's too big and the tech isn't hobbyist friendly except for a tiny handful of users. And it's an added cost to the money already spent for a filament changer.

  • Oh god, we'd be stuck with all those silent letters

  • There is little reason to abandon a perfectly good older machine that still works just fine all because a newer technology shows up. That's wasteful of money and material in itself.

    I doubt there will be a glut of used Bambu printers being dumped by print farms either. They will continue to use those "old and obsolete" printers until they wear out enough to be replaced at the scheduled time. At which point it could very well make sense to swap them out with better tech. As long as that tech works first time, every time-- which hasn't been demonstrated yet. It's one of the major reason many print farms use Bambu printers and not Vorons or Crealty printers.

  • Oh Boy!

    Jump
  • I can attest to that. I've been trying to figure out why my Kinonite install is killing KDE repeatedly without mercy...........

  • Yeah, I even find my Mk3s a bit more than I often need for size about 80% of the time. I find my little A1 Mini's 1803^ all I really use most of the time.

  • Ahh, the Tyranny of the Crowd. The form of governance that has brought you lynchings and even the French Revolution.

  • Regularly electing new mods will eventually lead to a similar path of only attracting the power hungry, (like any political position). Or you simply run out of qualified people silly enough to put up with the great unwashed masses, (riding herd on a community of ant kind is a very large pain in the arse-- Got that tee shirt don't want another)

  • The problem is, by the time you add the enclosure, you are at nearly the same price as a Core One kit. Yes, the SV08 is larger, but unless you are into cosplay printing, that extra size is probably a waste of space.

  • Odds are you would be staring down the barrel either way. You can die kneeling or fighting back. The choice is yours, but you can still end up dead either way.

  • Special needs often require special materials. You have special requirements and can use those materials. When I have special needs for materials, I just walk up to my garage and machine things out of metals. I have a lathe, mill, drill press, air compressors, and welders. But, I'm that extreme outlier your momma warned you about.......Not everyone has the room, knowledge and skills to do that. So, 3D printing is a very good substitute for most people.

    Still, don't dismiss those 'basic' filaments either. I have made more than one bending die set to bend up to 10ga/3mm steel out of the cheapest most basic PLA I can buy. It won't last for 10,000 parts, but I know can can get a dozen bends from it. And more depending on the material and thickness of it. And no, it doesn't take 100% infill either. 15% or 20% infill is enough. It's all about the number of walls.

    Experiment, try, fail, succeed, and most important, have fun learning.