Snapmaker U1

Nozzle .4

Deeplee PLA+

A friend wants me to print this mask in black. But how to i get a smooth-er top surface?

Just finished printing this long dragon on my Kobra X.

I never expected to ask this question, but I've had these four guys for over a year and a half. I thought that i knew which sex each was, but my color sight isn't the greatest anymore.

I've known about and have used this on occasions.

ZMOD will unload the filament for you.

Instead of cutting the filament and pulling it all the way back out. I modded my Comgrow dryer\feeder. And added two pc4-10 pneumatic fittings on the back. This way I can open and close the lid without the spools unwinding. And ran two clear bowden tubes up to the top of the AD5M.

I added a PTFE splitter with a short clear bowden tube, so that I can see which color is being fed as well as knowing how far to rewind the spool before feeding the other color the rest of the way to the toolhead.

Remember to focus the heat from the heat gun to the area that you're cleaning up.

Also, do not always use high heat and keep the the gun away a safe distance.

And, close the bathroom door and turn on the exhaust fan. Otherwise, you'll set off the smoke detectors again.

My Kobra X was so embarrassed that it shut the camera off.

I was wondering why the video wasn't showing on my laptop.

I've been printing basically non stop for the past two days without any issues.

Today I actually tried to trick it into printing a Full Spectrum model that I made in Snorca. After saving the gcode, I loaded it into Orca KX and sent it that way.

Oh well. LMAO. It even unclamped the nozzle and spit that out too.

For the life of me, I can not get the bottom clamps to lock in. If i lower the nozzle a smidge then the top won't clamp.

What am I doing wrong? Where is the ridge on the nozzle supposed to be?

Is there anyway to reduce the amount of poop when printing with a single head printer?

Can you find Robo in the third picture?

We are serving fresh homemade spaghetti and sauce for dinner tonight. Lol

After my first day disaster with silk filament, I'm running the same filament and the same model. This is after drying the silk, which I didn't do before. Even though I knew better.

I'm using an SH03 which has a seal and monitors the humidity level. As you can see in the picture, I wanted to have it some place that was accessible. And the line out holes are on the rear top, making it easy to change spools.

I've already printed a camera relocation mount. I can now see what I'm printing. A poop deflector, so that I don't have to search for and pick up poop.

And of course a new print head cover. Which had to be printed on my U1. The one that I printed on the Kobra X looked like crap. I had turned on fuzzy skin, but either the slicer or the printer didn't like it.

I had watched the unboxing video and had it set up in no time. I let the self calibration do its thing. Then loaded the included filament, chose the Spider benchy.

And bam! Error message! Clogged Nozzle! Mother Fucker! Felt like taking it to the dumpster!

Instead, I laid it on its back, cause I can't see shit even with glasses. And started to poke the little needle to clean in out. I used my pliers to be able to force the needle into the clog.

Stood the X back up, reloaded the filament and started printing an articulating frog. Everything started printing great. Watched it for a few minutes, then went into the bathroom. And another error pops up on my phone. No worries though, it ran out of filament. Loaded a fresh spool and finished the print. Actually printed it better than my AD5M did.

I'm a glutton for punishment and don't like to fuck around.. So I loaded 4 fresh spools of multi colored silk filament. Using the Kobra slicer, I synched up the colors and started a 17 hour print. It's been printing now for 5 hours.

Finally got around to running a few tests. My eyes are bad even with glasses. But I'm guessing:

215 -.05 0.052

When I do a first layer test with the smooth plate, only the top section of the Black, Orange look like the z-offset needs adjusting. And the bottom section of the Red.

But how could only small sections need adjusting?

I've leveled this plate twice in a row.

Should I still adjust the z-offset?