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batmaniam

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  • Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear

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  • Me to! I was almost done with a batch of prints for a friends fundraiser (30x hat looms for knitting. Great little project, they're knitting hats for the premies at the NICU, so they needed a custom model for the tiny babys). I think you're right. With the oozing and whatnot that has to be it. I brought up the fundraiser because it had me making multiple prints of the same file. When I found a setting that worked (moving to the 0.20), the first few worked, but were a bit stringy, but by the 3rd/4th one they were printing flawlessly.

    I guess maybe when things got screwed up at 0.16 the nozzle had some funkiness, and with enough material it worked itself through? Still doesn't explain why that brand new nozzle screwed up in the first place at 0.16 (which suggests the flow rate issue you brought up), but I'll take the win.

  • Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear

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  • Thanks! This kind of insight is super helpful. Are you a poster here often? I was able to get decent prints again by changing the layer from 0.16 to 0.20. Still disappointed and confused as to what happened, but will probably keep the printer. Not sure if it makes sense to do a "wrap up" post for anyone else searching later.

    Also: go team venture!

  • Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear

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  • correct. I initiated a return with amazon. I have had a 250g spool in the drier since about 10am today, and will try it this evening, but if that doesn't work I'm just returning it.

    In trying to do a cold pull (which you do in this machine by attaching the nozzle upside down and manually pushing filament in), it was oozing and popping with the remnants of the previous filament, which to me says very wet filament?

    I had tried drying filament for ~8hrs yesterday with no good results. Is there something else that could cause the oozing issue? My friend brought up that maybe the temperature sensor isn't working properly and it's hotter than it thinks it is?

  • Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear

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  • I'm not sure if it's the Z or gunk building up and dragging. Also with the new nozzle it's been only PLA and no joy whatsoever.

  • Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear

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  • Thanks to everyone for the input, after drying a ~100g spool of PLA for 8 hours and having failed prints on the original nozzle and new nozzle I have initiated a refund.

  • Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear

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  • yeah I anticipated wear, but with <2kg of material that seems excessive no? I did have some feed issues, but even with those resolved and it feeding nicely, I still have problems. A friend of mine did suggest that maybe with the feed issues I managed to do something that brought the nozzle out of spec and that's why I'm getting issues.

  • Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear

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  • No special filament, other than <10g TPU. Interesting I'll try the test. I think I'll get the dragging though, as I was trying to do some business card type prints that were basically what you're suggesting and got issues. Sometimes the first layer would be ok, sometimes not. It would wind up dragging it around and as it was warm, it would roll the layer into a "snake"

  • Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear

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  • It was just normal PLA. The only special filament was some TPU, but that was <10g total.

    This is helpful, I think it's one of 3 things based on your input:

    1. Wet filament. That's causing oozing/build up on the nozzle and causing dragging. Fix: Try drying like you mentioned.
    2. The hardware had a failure somewhere. Fix/Verify: ???
    3. The firmware is bugging and not setting the Z properly after calibration. Fix/Verify ???

    Edit: I think the fix/verify for scenario 2/3 above might just be trying the new nozzle after drying the filament. IE: If the filament is confirmed dry and still causing issues, then I try the new nozzle (after calibrating) with the confirmed dry filament. If that works fine then it was nozzle that was screwy (although the cause could have still been wet filament and me screwing it up unclogging?)

  • The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

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  • doing this dance right now, I toyed with the honest version of this. Either by adding a "robot.txt" section, or typing "This resume prepared for XYZ inc for the position of ABC based on proficiency in

    <list job reqs>

    as requested in position posting"

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 30 minutes and counting now

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  • Ah, I thought the date was announced like two weeks ago. My mistake.

    But in any event hope you get some good time in with it this weekend. When the vibe is that unique there's nothing like a second helping done right.

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 30 minutes and counting now

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  • Yeah, this was one of those games that I could see the craftsmanship but just wasn't for me.

    But strong follow up to a much beloved original IP for a very reasonable price? That borderline shadow dropped? Love it, yall enjoy your suprise Christmas and go nuts. Cool as hell.

  • Most of Trump’s tariffs are illegal, federal court rules

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  • Oh sweet. Still laid off though...

  • Systems

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  • The thing is, by and large, we're already almost "post scarcity". We have no problems requiring technical solutions; we already have the tech. There's no polio that requires Salk. We've solved most of our problems, we just don't like the solutions.

    Better tech won't fix that because that's not a tech problem.

  • AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

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  • I'm glad somebody got the joke.

  • AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over

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  • I understand you're frustrated about the AI race. That's an excellent point, and it deserves careful consideration. First, in considering the AI race we need to consider what AI is...

  • This is getting laughably ridiculous

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  • Oh I've loved it so far. And you're right on the "what you learn is more useful". Like I'd done a fair amount of hobby/work prototype stuff on rasbian, and eventually went "man, it'd be great if this but more horsepower" and wound up Debian.

    Anyway, my point is despite doing a fair amount of coding, and circuit level electronics including troubleshooting comms and all the fun things like race conditions that go into that, I had zero idea how a computer was actually arranged. Troubleshooting Debian helped me with that and is infinitely transferable as opposed to being a tip and trick with windows.

    But my original comment was just about Nvidia cards. I've had some I just slot in and they work, and some I have to spend an afternoon troubleshooting. Still reinforces your point though, troubleshooting it the first time was how I learned how things actually get displayed.

  • How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS

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  • "cheering for the Chiefs doesn't make you a football player"

    No see THAT makes you a terrorist.

  • This is getting laughably ridiculous

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  • I'm not fully a penguin, but getting there. Saw the memes, experienced it first hand in one case and was plug and play in another. It's luck of the draw.

  • EU warns that its trade with the US could be effectively wiped out if Trump follows through on his threat

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  • I've used wise.com to jump through some hoops when accepting transfers from international clients. It's a plain Jane bank account (not bitcoin shenanigans).