Slacker3D

It's gonna be that kind of day printing...

Initial results are in.
Vexlab printed great. Print came right up after cooling.
Only thing is some blobbing at the top of the letters. Oh, and a little stringing, but it's PETG. Look at that bottom layer!

Printing PETG on the Voxelab printer for the first time. Doing a calibration cube. Wish it luck.

Pan here - remember that whole bowden tube bi-metal heatbreak thing with my CR10 I was talking about? Well I remember and I'm gonna tell you about it. When I replaced the tubing I think I wasn't getting it cut right and that's why it still clogged. Recently I learned about Bi-metal heatbreaks and jumped at the chance to resolve my tube cutting issues. It did resolve the tube cutting problem. I had a known good model of a threaded cylinder threw that on the printer and bingo, it worked! I then tried slicing some things and the print would fail after 20, 30, or 40 minutes. Vase mode worked great too. What the hell? I finally realized the difference between the prints that worked and the ones that failed was retraction. The models that did not use, or had minimal retraction were fine. If they needed lots of retractions, BOOM fail!
I was not aware that you should reduce the retraction amount when you go to the bi-metal heatbreak. I got some hints by searching around the various groups and forums. Once I set it to 2mm everything started working normally.

Stay tuned. In our next chapter we loose a major character in my 3d Printer adventures.