Well, that was a long fruitless day of printing.

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Well, that was a long fruitless day of printing. The one thing that broke the 4mm ceiling got to the lofty heights of 6.7mm before pulling away from the bed.

I haven’t kept/recorded/photographed the 10+ failed 20mm cubes that I used during belt tightening/loosening - they majority of which didn’t get past the 2nd layer.

Could it be the Arduino is fried? Even installed fresh firmware on that.

I keep seeing the prints go wrong about 6 mins in, this time shortens as I continue to print. The Y-motor also has a little jitter every 10 seconds after the failure.

Tomorrow I’m having a day off.

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Have you swapped motors / drivers with x axis to narrow down the source ?

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I haven’t got to that point yet. I should mention that this is effectively a"plug-and-play" RepRap and my warranty will head in to the voided zone when that happens.

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Unfamiliar with the terms and conditions there … but it seems to me either you have a warranty claim or the right to connect the x to y and y to x and see if the problems move with the motor or the axis.

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Warrenty claim is where we’re going. I have spent enough time trying to solve it myself.

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No all motors running at room temperature. Belts have moved from too tight to too loose and ended up at a happy medium.

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I feel your pain, @Rex_Bigger , I’m in the same boat.

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Hi @Matt_Bordoni - it’s a RepRap variant, an Architect by Omni3D

@Mike_Miller what are you using?

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3DR, Second Rumba, e3d hotend after melting my J-head, have a hobbed gear on-order as the one I made is a bit too aggressive.

I’m still in a position where I can high-speed extrude filament all day long using the extrude button, obviously faster than I could accurately lay it down…but can’t get slic3r to figure that out.