SUCCESS! My parts came in on Friday. I spent all day on Saturday, taking care of the last few details and started
my first print around noon on Saturday and... wait for it... it worked! I first printed a small calibration cube that
measured 20x20x4 mm, my measurements were 19.9x19.9x4.2 or so... I'm pleased. I spent most of yesterday
printing hot-rod parts and really, learning about how the printer and slicer work together by watching the prints.
Here's the prints:
Z-Wobble arms:
Seadevil's spool holder:
Everything I was able to get done yesterday:
Noob2Noob tip: Ensure the bed is level, level, level! I was having some lifting/non-sticking issues. I releveled the bed, added painters tape and was
printing at 70c on the HBP and no more problems. I think I'll try printing sans tape to see if the bed leveling was the issue.
I'm having one last issue with my extruder. Occasionally, on layers 1-3 (raft being 0), the extruder acts like it's "loaded up" and
springs backward occasionally. Odd. I wondered if it was trying to extrude too quickly and played around with print speeds and
extruder temps but nothing made a lot of difference.