<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/5093/printers-lament/ Wed, 08 Jan 2014 02:33:37 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46058/#p46058 My prints all have banding
The circles and bridges suck
All the prints need some sanding
I'm having fun so what the $%^&

p.s. sorry for some literary copyright infringement

]]> Wed, 08 Jan 2014 02:33:37 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46058/#p46058 <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46057/#p46057 My printer has arrived!
But now I'm kinda stuck
All my prints come out wrong
No instructions? What the $%^&

]]> Wed, 08 Jan 2014 02:15:53 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46057/#p46057 <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46047/#p46047 I wish I had those problems
I simply cannot win
I browse the forums waiting for
My printer to come in

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:36:06 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46047/#p46047 <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46042/#p46042 IanJohnson wrote:

The vast majority of problems I've had with the Solidoodle have been ones I've brought on myself, either breaking something in the course of improving it, or having my improvements break.

It's been my experience thus far that I'm improving the things I break more often that breaking my improvements.

Most problems I have had are self inflicted - to be honest.  But the tinkering is the main attraction at this point.  I bought the SD because of the add line "if you want to tinker buy a kit, if you want to print buy a Solidoodle" - I wanted to print.  But the tinker bug gets you and.....

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 22:34:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46042/#p46042 <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46024/#p46024 IanJohnson wrote:

The vast majority of problems I've had with the Solidoodle have been ones I've brought on myself, either breaking something in the course of improving it, or having my improvements break.

Exactly and isn't that the fun of it all? Mod, Break, Fix, Rejoice.

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:40:18 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46024/#p46024 <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46023/#p46023 The vast majority of problems I've had with the Solidoodle have been ones I've brought on myself, either breaking something in the course of improving it, or having my improvements break.

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:37:05 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46023/#p46023 <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46022/#p46022 Claghorn wrote:

Obviously you guys are all missing the point: The point is to have something to tinker with. Once it works perfectly, it will be boring :-).

Oh, I think we get the point exactly.  I love the tinkering part of it and agree that it would be boring with out that side of things.  That being said, you have to appreciate the humor of of a statement that pretty sums up how so many frustrated users feel.  At least at certain times of "tinkering failures" and I know we've all had some of those. big_smile

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:32:38 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46022/#p46022 <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46019/#p46019 Obviously you guys are all missing the point: The point is to have something to tinker with. Once it works perfectly, it will be boring :-).

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:22:51 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46019/#p46019 <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46012/#p46012 Awesome!  Just to keep it going...

The board is overheating;
X & Y won’t Jog,
I put a fan on my electronics
But my nozzle just got a clog

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:24:14 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46012/#p46012 <![CDATA[Re: Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46006/#p46006 Nailed it! big_smile That is just too funny, yet so accurate.

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:47:04 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46006/#p46006 <![CDATA[Printer's Lament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/46005/#p46005 Ran across this at the RepRap forum, and thought it reflected the experiences of many here-

My printer isn't working,
I've got a little stressed,
My adhesion is substandard
And i'm wasting ABS

All i get is noodles,
That look a bit like hay,
Perhaps I should have read some more
and bought some PLA

At 20 pounds a kilo
I can't take it any more,
and slic3r keeps on crashing
so it's back to the eBay store

I've got errors with my Marlin;
problems with my config file,
perhaps I'll go and clean my bed
or smash it up in style

http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,290 … msg-290721

]]> Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:44:31 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/46005/#p46005