{"id":130,"date":"2013-06-13T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=130"},"modified":"2013-06-14T03:03:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T03:03:50","slug":"bizarre-happenings-with-the-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre Happenings with the Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing the two cylindrical pieces, (the body tube and the nose cone) I then printed the bottom section of the TB3 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>It printed well. Then, when the print job was finished, something bizarre happened.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of dropping the bed it acted like it was still printing a previous job. The hot extruder head pushed itself into the plastic and the printer clicked a lot and before a couple of seconds had passed, I reached back and shut the thing off.<\/p>\n<p>No major damage, but I was weirded out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bzlHJoFn79c\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Skip to 8:30. (Sorry the video is so long. I no longer have any video editing software that works.)<\/p>\n<p>I e-mailed Afinia and they replied very quickly, saying that it could be a corruption in the memory card, a fragmented file, or even a bad .STL file that I tried to print.<\/p>\n<p>I printed a second test item the next day, hoping it was a one-off issue, but when this 1&#8243; head model had printed, I got a similar result. It finished, but instead of lowering the bed, it kept printing. And from what it printed, I assume the job it&#8217;s stuck on is the job I printed a couple of days before &#8211; the two cylindrical rocket shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Afinia says they have a new version of the printing software that supposedly fixes this particular bug, and in the mean time they informed me I could remove the Micro SD card and format it myself, and that may work.<\/p>\n<p>So I unscrewed the base of the printer and removed the Micro SD and put it in the multi-memory-card reader in my computer and did a quick format and put it back.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t do a test print at the moment, getting ready to go out to dinner. But I will try tonight and post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>\u00a0When I got back from dinner I printed a Lego piece. It ended successfully, with the head resetting normally. Looks like the format of the Micro SD card worked. Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing the two cylindrical pieces, (the body tube and the nose cone) I then printed the bottom section of the TB3 rocket. It printed well. Then, when the print job was finished, something bizarre happened. Instead of dropping the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}