Topic: Filament breaks after 1 hour.
I've finally got my Press dialed in (I think, still figuring out slicer settings) and my first few prints fail after a bit. I started with the sample filament that it came with. Printed at Medium quality within Soleprint, and things were going pretty smooth until an hour in, and then the drive gear began "thumping" after 1 min of it, the filament stopped feeding through the nozzle and was eventually kinking the filament. I went through and tighten the set screw on the drive gear and retried printing the same print. The second one got 2 or 3 layers further but inevitably the drive gear "thumped" and the filament quit feeding.
Here's the two first prints:
I decided to try a different print and see if I had any better luck. Short answer: no.
This one stopped at about the same "time" increment which was an hour into the print. I decided to try different filament. unfortunately I learned too late that Solidoodle has poor quality ABS, and ordered 5 spools of their stuff. Either way I need to try something else. So I'm gonna try a different spool and see what happens and report back. In the mean time I think I'm going to try Hatchbox's filament, anyone have any experience with their stuff?