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Back in March, I decided to pull the trigger and get the Sparkx i7 as my first step into 3D printing. It was what I could afford. At first I loved it. It was great, making some really good prints, and this one that I really love. But I’m now over 500 hours in and it seems like every day it’s something else causing issues. Lately the print will get started, then part way through I’ll get the error message that it appears to be printing without extruding. I’ve cleaned it up, opened up the extruder box, and tried most of what I’ve read out there, but I just cannot figure out what’s going on. I’m printing without extruding PLA and currently, just trying to print a small box for desiccant.

Does anyone have any ideas or have you experiences something similar with your Sparkx? I’m getting super frustrated, I can’t go two good prints in a row anymore and always wake up to a mess in the morning.

I usually don’t go out of my way to review a product, but the O-Cedar H2Pro is easily in my top 5 best cleaning tools of all time! I always say some things you get what you pay for, some don’t meet expectations, some exceed. This thing is about $50 at Walmart, not “super” cheap, but man, worth every cent and then some. It is absolutely low tech, and that is why I love it. For background, I have two kids and a dog who comes and goes outside all the time. It takes me 3 minutes to set up the H2Pro, and about that same time to put it away. Literally just uses warm tap water (so you don’t get into expensive refill liquid) but I do add like one drop of Dawn. It gets my floor AMAZING (also we just redid our flooring, so factor that in) in no time flat. I never have to refill the clean water, easily gets my floors in one go. It separates the dirty water from the clean so they never touch. And like the other day, I was going to clean and filled it up, but then got interrupted for hours. So what? Come back and it’s still ready to go! Except with cold water, but good enough! I have even used it on walls, doors, floorboards, fatigue mats, sides of cupboards. It’s amazing and so easy to use. Seriously if you have looked but just aren’t sure, GET IT. Life changing tool. Honestly, and I hate to say this because of the money, but it might outperform my Bissel Crosswave…

Struggling with Sparkx i7

O-Cedar Mop- Unbelievable tool!