Yep, you're exactly right! I forgot that I have the volumetric speed capped at 25 for the Turbo PLA (based that off of random reported values other people used, but didn't think to try and benchmark it yet). So I'm gonna do that right now! The Overture Matte PLA also prints incredibly cleanly at 300mm/s, so I'm going to benchmark it and the Turbo PLA to see how high this hotend can go. I'll report back when finished.
I just realized that I have that capped, and I'm now running some flow rate tests on my different filaments. I'll make another post with the highest flowrate I achieve 👍
Heh - I currently have everything set up for the glass bed mod, except I just read that it doesn't work with the CR touch sensor, so I'll need to get a BT Eddy sensor or sonar something. I'll also need to print a new gantry, and I've already tried one that didn't work as well as the stock one, so just waiting to do more research on that, and then I'll have my glass bed all set up!
Edit: oh yeah! So the way I calibrated it was:
I removed the extruder from the gantry (3 screws)
I fed in some filament (cold, obv) until I could see it on the bottom of the extruder
Flush cut the filament
Issue some commands to extrude 100mm
Flush cut that segment off again (try to cut exactly the same as before)
I'll describe most of these in more detail below but my main takeaways from the last few weeks are:
Have faith (always run it with 'dangerously skip permissions', even on important resources like your production server and your main dev machine. If you're from infosec, you might want to stop reading now—the rest of this article isn't going to make you any happier. Keep your medication close at hand if you decide to continue).
My manager at my last job would occasionally ask if anything would make my job better. I would always say "a 4-day work week," citing weeks where I had taken Friday off as an example of how much more productive I was.
She would always respond by laughing and saying, "not gonna happen. Anything else?"
I hope the company store sells cheap rent!