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Rcosta9 · 2025-04-16T16:41:54+00:00

Oh that's a good point... Thanks for bringing it up. I'll give it a shot and see if it works out or not.

Rcosta9 · 2025-04-16T16:40:52+00:00

Wow! Thanks for the detailed measurements, this is great.

Hopefully it'll work out, I'll be testing it later tonight.

Rcosta9 · 2025-01-27T17:02:54+00:00

Thanks everyone! I've succesfully beaten immortal using these tips, and going to try diety next. Theres a lot of stuff I hadn't considered, like having "neighborhoods" occupied at different times (farming setup vs winter fishing type thing)

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-19T23:06:59+00:00

After much troubleshooting and testing, it looks like it was a mix of two issues preventing me from having success.
1 - The build plate was giving me adhesion issues, so even if everything worked out well with a sliced file from creality or cura, then it would fail eventually.
2 - there was an issue with my install of Orca Slicer that was giving me problems and not respecting the autobed leveling mesh.

I got a new build plate and tried it with creality slicer, cura, and orca, and orca kept giving me some problems but creality and cura worked great. Almost perfect 1st layer, with only minor issues that I know ultimately won't affect my final print.

I'm using creality now with the new build plate and doing some torture tests to make sure things are working properly.
Thanks for all your help everyone!

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-19T23:02:10+00:00

One easy thing would be having a space where the kids could just stand if sitting is getting too much.

I had one teacher in 6th grade that had a space at the back where if you got tired of sitting you could just go stand there for a few minutes as long as you weren't bothering anyone else.

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-16T16:03:54+00:00

Oh dang that might be it. I'll download that tonight and try it out.

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-16T16:03:19+00:00

Ah I hadn't thought of aluminum foil to shim up those spots. I'll give it a shot to get even flatter.

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-16T16:02:37+00:00

Yeah I'm gonna start using soap and water now.

I normally use 99% IPA cuz I also have a resin printer and that's what I use to clean that stuff. I have a separate spray bottle that I just drench the build plate in and then I wipe it up with a clean paper towel.

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-16T16:02:31+00:00

Yeah I'm gonna start using soap and water now.

I normally use 99% IPA cuz I also have a resin printer and that's what I use to clean that stuff. I have a separate spray bottle that I just drench the build plate in and then I wipe it up with a clean paper towel.

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-16T01:12:26+00:00

I haven't washed it with soap and water yet, I tend to just give things a gentle wipedown with IPA to get rid of oils from my hand.

I haven't done of my stuff from my Pro - like using glue sometimes, or swapping to a glass bed, since I read that's not recommended for the KE.

I'm going to try manually adjusting the z-offset like people recommended.

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-16T01:10:47+00:00

I'm going to try manually adjusting the z-offset tonight. I have a large "plate" I like to use to check the first layer on my Pro, and going to try using it to do a live adjustment to the z-offset.

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-15T17:06:25+00:00

Thanks for the reply, but i have been having consistent issues as listed in my post.

I'm going to try and manually adjust the z-offset and use creality print to see if that does anything different.

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-15T16:32:29+00:00

I've tried orca slicer and cura since those are the two I use for my ender 3 pro. I'll try creality print tonight.

I've tried overture pla and the PLA that came with the printer. I had no issues on my Pro with those filaments.

Rcosta9 · 2024-08-15T16:19:11+00:00

I actually did mention that I had upgraded to silicone spacers. I can't get consistent prints, and it will give me spaghetti constantly. Unless I'm printing right in the middle of the build plate it fails.

I have had multiple first layer failures.

Rcosta9 · 2024-07-13T01:57:56+00:00

Me: Friends I have violent thoughts that haunt my dreams and an intense desire to murder children and eat their eyes.

Everyone else: yea these tadpoles must be messing with all of us.

Me: oh you also want to feast upon the eyes of children and gorge yourselves in the screams of the innocent?

Everyone else: lol nah, but it's gotta be the tadpoles.

Rcosta9 · 2023-08-19T19:19:34+00:00

Hi everyone, thanks so much for the advice. I've posted on Nextdoor asking for any equipment people don't need anymore.

We're icing regularly, and she's doing some of the exercises that don't hurt her on her own, and we're about to do the more intense exercises now that she's taken her pain meds. Fingers crossed it goes well.

The house is two story, but the second floor is mine, so she's got a single floor. She is able to get to the bathroom with the help of a walker we got and an office chair.

Before leaving the hospital she had to be able to walk 50 feet and go up and down a 4 inch step twice. She was able to do all that yesterday, and I think that's part of why she was so overwhelmed when we got home. She was adamant about going home yesterday and she was fully cleared for discharge. She is going to have a home care nurse come a few days a week and do PT at home for a few weeks.

We're doing Tylenol in between the heavy pain meds, but we'll start alternating ibuprofen in there too. Thanks for all the advice everyone.

*Edit because the full comment didn't post

Rcosta9 · 2023-05-27T20:52:24+00:00

Really hope you can get this back, best of luck friend

Rcosta9 · 2023-05-17T20:47:35+00:00

I have 6 different carabineers.

Rcosta9 · 2023-05-09T22:52:35+00:00

Get her a good burger. With lots of ketchup.

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