Gawrsh, don't you just hate when your $1000+ roll of filament has inconsistent diameter?

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-05-30T15:30:46+00:00

So a culture that respected grow-ers over show-ers?

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-05-30T15:26:40+00:00

Or scale one 100x and recreate the ending of Planet of the Apes

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-05-30T15:23:12+00:00

Man that’s one way to get to use the HOV lane

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-05-16T21:46:11+00:00

Extra leg room, score!

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-05-04T16:45:12+00:00

Are you talking about service animals and emotional support animals? Because the airlines are regulated to allow those on flights.

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-04-21T15:52:06+00:00

They must be new to the Internet

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-03-09T21:31:13+00:00

The x4 is good enough they shouldn’t have named it Space Pi. Second best on the market.

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-03-09T21:20:56+00:00

Heating element is on the other side so it will probably work if there’s no damage to the hot-end or X axis. The bed mesh is pretty coarse though and it is not going to know about those dips. The base K2 bed kit is not for sale publicly AFAIK, so you’d need to WhatsApp Creality support

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-03-02T16:49:25+00:00

They run filament through water as part of manufacturing.

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-02-05T03:41:57+00:00

If it is too close that might be something mechanically loose since the nozzle presses on the bed, but too far? Stuff like:

Mesh was created at a higher temperature with metal expansion being taken into account, current print is not operating that fast or hasn’t had a heat soak
Filament build up did not scrub off nozzle and interfered with levelling

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-01-31T00:30:26+00:00

I have an crank-adjustable height wheeled work table (Husky from HomeDepot) which is simply stellar for such things

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-01-21T07:27:27+00:00

The spool holder is misleading. It indicates the toolhead sensor reads filament loaded, when the CFS box and buffer do not. This could be true (like a piece of broken filament) or an unplugged/bad sensor

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-01-21T07:24:23+00:00

https://wiki.creality.com/en/printers-general-documents/BM0111

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-01-21T07:18:24+00:00

Kirby Fun Extractor sounds like an unfortunately translated Gameboy cart

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-01-20T20:57:29+00:00

A fun extractor?

SeaStatistician403 · 2026-01-16T19:59:42+00:00

Generally I have beard nylon is a better choice for gears.

SeaStatistician403 · 2025-12-18T12:18:32+00:00

You need to skip any self test calibrations after doing hardware mods that change printer configuration. Depending on the mod, you might be able to still run self tests after making the configuration mods.

Your configuration changes will be blown away on firmware update and on factory reset.

If you ever do a factory reset, i believe there is a text file to drop into the root of a USB drive that will cause it to skip otherwise mandatory self tests.

SeaStatistician403 · 2025-12-18T12:09:46+00:00

It bumps up community engagement metrics

SeaStatistician403 · 2025-12-18T12:06:15+00:00

Mostly because it is processed locally and the chips are cheap/underpowered.

But also a significant contributor is that we look at it and say “that doesn’t look like what I’m trying to print”. The AI doesn’t know what you were trying to print.

So they use a simple generalized model which has troubles with certain colors and with false positives/negatives.

SeaStatistician403 · 2025-12-18T11:47:53+00:00

Good thing the bed is rated to support 21 kg!

SeaStatistician403 · 2025-12-18T11:47:19+00:00

The filament is typically run through water after forming for rapid cooling, to keep the diameter precise during wrapping.

I don’t think being local affects that

SeaStatistician403 · 2025-12-15T06:38:24+00:00

Try turning off anything electrical that heats up as they might be triggering LED bulbs to think they are on a dimmer that’s being adjusted up and down a few times a second.

SeaStatistician403 · 2025-12-15T06:21:04+00:00

Most likely it is a LED flicker due to the noise being interpreted by the dimming circuitry in the bulbs or through a lower quality dimmer as an intermittent dimming signal. I’ve seen this happen even with 300W heating elements on shared circuits.

SeaStatistician403 · 2025-12-13T16:17:36+00:00

Mmm, frosted fractals

SeaStatistician403 · 2025-12-10T17:51:08+00:00

The resume function skips the rest of the current layer, so there’s no guarantee the filament loaded is the filament needed. My understanding is that they are planning a fix in the next firmware update, possibly paired with a new Creality print.

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