So with my learning curve behind me (pffft, hahahahaha) and a long weekend ahead i set out to crush though some formations for the new army...
Things could have gone a lot better. lots of really bad misprints... either the tension on the vat membrane was lose... or the new resin wasn't happy.... or the temperature or humidity was off or... something. it was a pretty miserable start to the weekend - foggy, bleak and shitful saturday and most of sunday.
i did get some stuff done though... mainly on friday evening...
Two formations of Assault Terminators, each with an appropriately beweaponed Chaplain (No, they're not being lead by Termi-pandas; Chaplains are meant to have a skull themed helmet, which is... challenging to pull off in 6mm).
Finished painting them last night.
Not perfect but definitely table-worthy.
After several failed prints (basically everything that i tried on sunday) due to lift etc i decided to replace the vat membrane just to see if it was that.
with filament you can gauge after a smaller percentage if there's something awry, and then abort the job if required; with resin you technically can pause the print, which raises the build plate for inspection or add resin etc, but everything's covered in goop and you can only really guess... yes or no, that there's something accumulating on the plate. bit frustrating, especially when you have to wait 1 1/2 hours for the print to complete.
Anyway so i'd fixed the membrane (something new and interesting) and decided on tuesday (long weekend) night to run a quick print and see how it performed. and received a new an exciting error... yhay.
Turns out this is a known thing; there are posts, vids and recommendations. Cleaned things up and called it a night. Not overly happy but peacefully resigned that this project was going to be as annoying as it damn well wanted to be.
The usb stick that they recommended replacing was the one they supplied and it has barely been used. Hopefully just a software glitch rather than a popped capacitor or similar.
Downloaded some firmware stuff and left it there.
So last night i ran the firmware command and after a failed attempt and a few restarts it printed a fricken perfect run... just to spite me.
So i'm thinking i'll keep running jobs until midnight while it still works.
Started the second job and that ran through as well, but it ran out of resin with 9% to go so unusable... i swore a lot (especially since i topped up the tank after starting the job). Cleaned things up and called it a night.
So that's that. a potential solution to the software glitch and hopefully it will print some more stuff next session.
A tip which was helpful for the memory thing was to 'dry run' the job; basically start the print program running for as long as required but without the vat and resin and so on. Saves resin.
The memory failures were happening mainly before the 4% mark (though on the vids i think i saw 11% or 16%).
Anyway, it is what it is.
Until next time...
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