Not looking for support, just wanted to show newcomers that good printers with good calibration also can make spaghetti.

I’m not entirely sure what happened here, as I didn’t pay attention, but stuff like this usually happens when a booger of nozzlesnot sticks to the print somewhere and hardens, and next time the unsuspecting print head comes along it hits the (now solidified) snot, and the belts skip a tooth or two.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    True. I’ve had two spectacular ones myself:

    • I was printing some minis, and one of them came loose and knocked all the other ones loose as well. It took a long while before The noticed and the spaghetti buildup got to the point where the cooling fan for the hotend got tangled. The printer noticed and shut itself down, so no harm done.
    • I don’t remember what happened, but the nozzle picked up a lot of snot that didn’t come off, and it only kept accumulating to the point where any extruded filament just kept adding to the booger. Luckily it was easy to remove as it was still pretty warm. And praise the gods for nozzle socks.

    EDIT: Oh, back in 2012ish when I first started dabbling with 3D printing, a spool tangle caused the printer to winch itself off of the desk and ended up lynched against the spool holder. Oddly enough the print was relatively OK.