I just noticed someone has printed resin parts 910 minutes into a 990 minute cure. This sounds way too long to me. Should I stop it?
It turns out that was not 910 minutes into a 990 minute cure, but 80 minutes into a 990 minute with 910 to go.
I noticed the misinterpretation when I looked again later and it read 885 out of 990. I stopped it; there is nothing on the chart which called for 105 minutes of curing time.
When I went to use the wash/rinse machine, it was set to 30 minutes.
Apparently, someone had set each of the timers to their maximum settings.
In theory, isn’t that person supposed to be still hanging around the space somewhere?
When I was there yesterday in 3DFab, Ben Puige? was there washing a print for science.
Also 6 of the 7 printers were down and the 7th looked doggy with a failed connection. During my print on 92, the filament holder broke and dumped my roll onto the bed. I gave up trying to print at the space.
We should take 3DFab down for a couple days and service everything. I’d be willing to help on a 3DFab workday.
So that is what “wonky filament holder” means…
I took the maintenance class once. I tried everything I was comfortable with on the “not extruding” cases. No joy.
One was extruding very slowly. Max taught us a technique to fish fouled filament out of the extruder. I do not recall enough to try doing it.
The other two made a clicking sound when attempting to extrude. My semi-informed opinion is that those may require replacing the extruder nozzle.
We bought maintenance contracts at one time. Are we still covered?
The filament holder is still in place but the mechanical strength failed. Such that it sags enough that the roll will walk off of the end.
I’ve ordered 10 replacement nozzles. Now if we can only get people to quit printing PLA in machines setup for ABS…
i was there last night, used the cure and the wash, but i had set the wash for 10 minutes and the cure for 30 minutes. so im not sure how it got bumped to 990. i was there until 11:15 using it.
ETA timing off lol Stan posted his stuff at 1:15am 8-27 and i used it at 10pm 8-27. leaving post alone though