Topic: New with printing, had issues with SD2, in over my head?
I am very new with 3D printing. I picked up a few SD 2s’ as a barter swap.
Two worked and one was a parts system. I traded off one of the working ones and kept the parts one and the other working one.
The inital setup went well, I printed some basic trinkets, then the power aupply died.
I aquired a server PS online and now that powers my SD2.
I printed a large dice tower and it was great!
Then the jams started. First above the hotend neck, below the extruder wheels, it was a traffic jam of PLA.
This happened a few more times before a jam down in the hot end I was unable to clear.
From the parts machine I installed the other hot end.
The print quality was terrible, it was leaving little globs of PLA instead of lines, it looked like morse code.
I tried turning the heat up from 185 to 195 then I got another jam between the hot end end extruder wheels. I really do not want to pull the extruder housing apart again...
Am I over my head with this printer? It seems to have gone off the deep end?
I have looked at the Lawsy extruder housing, would this make clearing jams easier and faster?
I do not have money really to out into the machine, which is why I bartered for it. However, it seems according to posts, the E3D hot end fixes jaming issues. Is the mini version just as good?
And would the mini need the firmware modified like the big E3D? Not sure I trust myself to not mess it up.
Should I cut and try and find a more novice friendly printer if I can, or is there hope for this one?