Well bugaboo (my worst curse word
)
Hours spent running the new heater wire and thermister to the controller, checking everything possible.
Reassembly and contending with the original 3D printed parts that are falling apart (wished those were injection molded nylon for durability).
New heater works - just
really slow to get up to temperature compared to before. Thermister replacement was perfect - I could not have asked for better, very impressed and glad I bought a few extras for other projects.
Still, it will not push the hot liquid plastic through the nozzle. Not more than a very tiny bit. At any temperature.
So I put it away for awhile to clear my head and also to avoid taking a steel pipe and beating it all into a lump.
Then carefully disassembled the hotend AGAIN and carefully reassembled it, YET AGAIN. Same problem, AGAIN.
Double bugaboo .
About now that steel pipe is starting to look very good. But instead of that, I ordered a new replacement 3D printer to be delivered to my door.
** SHE that always says
NO when I want to buy anything was unusually quiet about this purchase
. I swear, no threat of steel pipe was involved!
This model is two major UPGRADE versions from what I have now and it is also
the same price I paid for my first printer - about $200 USD.
(I have a plan to re-purpose the old one to print PCBs - someday...)
The hotend design on the new version sure looks the stuff. There will be some new features to explore with this Prussia i3 model (Chinese clone).
Jeff's RGB LCD Enclosure in with the new.jpg (31.71 kB. 350x416 - viewed 926 times.)I'm usually quite good at getting electrical or mechanical goods to succumb to my will. And often without the threat of the steel pipe.
Not this time