Don't you just hate it when...

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The main plan for today was to start printing the new cable chain. I set up the print for 40 sets


Everything seemed to be going very well until...

There was a nasty snapping noise and I saw that the filament had broken. Luckily I spotted it before the loose end disappeared into the extruder. I managed to pause the job and replace the filament, until...

There was another snap as one of the prints broke loose and the whole spool of filament looked like an ugly macramé experiment. I paused the job again, stuck down the loose print with tape and spent about five minutes untangling the filament. 

I restarted the job and everything was fine, until...

a whole raft of other prints then detached themselves and went pinging around the room. This time I decided that pausing wasn't helping, so I cleared out the loose prints as best I could while it continued and let it carry on, waiting to see how many good prints I'd get. It's still running as I write. 

Oh, did I mention that this all happened at about 90% of the way through a ten hour print? That bit was inevitable, wasn't it? 

In other news, the DC-DC converters for my Neopixel power injector arrived. 

So, to console myself for the filament debacle, I set about designing a case to mount it on the vertical extrusion. 



So, things have certainly moved forward, but not without the usual retrograde action being included. 

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