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OnFirst t1_j7e8gxs wrote

An option to make connection with other female shooters.

The Well Armed Woman used to have a chapter here, but they apparently are no more.

I don't know how active this chapter is, but A Girl & A Gun has a local chapter https://www.facebook.com/groups/agagspringfieldmo/

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goldencrisp t1_j7e78dz wrote

Check out Chep on YouTube and grab his bed leveling STL. If you’re getting spaghetti it’s likely just the bed being slightly too low or you’re bed is dirty. Both of these will cause a print to come loose and spaghetti outta control.

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Frostyphotog131 t1_j7e6k7g wrote

It sounds like your having bed adhesion issues. Start by manually leveling your bed then calibrate the bltouch or whatever auto leveler it has. Then you'll have to calibrate the z-offset.

You can also try using some hairspray on the bed to help with adhesion. There also some stuff called magigoo that works well but is pretty expensive.

Calibrating a new printer is very time consuming and confusing if you don't know what your doing.

Check out r/fixmyprint and r/3Dprinting

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The_Kings_Goblet OP t1_j7e6jk3 wrote

So I think my rail guides are too tight. The auto leveler is attached next to the extruder housing. When I run the level function, it sticks out this little nub and pokes the bed in like nine spots all over and then it auto homes back to the center. It doesn't give feedback or anything. I haven't fussed with the slicer, and I'm going to try cura tomorrow since I've been using the default that the Chinese instructions recommended.

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WendyArmbuster t1_j7e5df6 wrote

I don't know much about the Ender 3, but I did help a dude get his set up after having a lot of trouble with it. None of his rail guides were tight on the rails, and the instructions it came with were abysmal. Once we got them tightened up and got the bed leveled it started working well.

What filament are you printing with? How does the software handle the auto-leveler? How does it detect the bed? (my Prusas use a Pinda proximity sensor, and my Lulzbots touch the nozzle against steel washers on the corners) Do you have to type the first layer height into Cura or Prusaslicer or whatever you use, or do you set it during a calibration routine?

Do your prints fail right off the bat, or somewhere midway through? My guess is that this is a bed-leveling or first layer height issue, or you're printing with ABS on a surface that ABS doesn't adhere to well.

Describe exactly what happens during your first layer please, and that will help a lot.

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Basementdork t1_j7e0tos wrote

I got a Ender 3 Max Neo around the same time as you from what I can tell. It prints really well right out of the box.. you said you did some upgrades. What kind of upgrades?

When you are new I’d highly recommend not doing that. The internet always says to do stuff like that but until you get a handle on printing I think it’s a bad idea.

If you are slicing with Cura it’ll have a profile for your model of printer I’d suggest using that unless you changed something like the extruder. If not Cura what slicing software are you using?

My Ender came with some default prints loaded on the card. Do those print okay?

As far as spaghetti monsters go that can be so many things but from what I’ve experienced it’s mostly due to bad adhesion. Are you using something like brim or rafting under adhesion?

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ItsyaboiNyarlathotep t1_j7e0lcn wrote

No one is ignoring the issues, did you not read that OP found homes for a majority of the litter? Would you propose calling animal control, or just leaving the animal there? For a lot of people those alternatives might as well leave them with an involuntary choice. Also, things happen, people might take home an animal fully believing that they're going to keep it, simply for life to get in the way and leave them with hard choices. Again, they don't need judgment in those cases, they need help.

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sbafuck t1_j7dz7mz wrote

I didn't move here til 2007 but my first concert shortly thereafter was Chevelle in the outland ballroom (which was not quite as grand as I was expecting from the name lol)

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AmcillaSB t1_j7dyha2 wrote

They're really inconsistent, and it sucks. I realize this is entirely subjective, but I think that overall their beers got worse when the new brewmaster guy took over (or at least, when the original guy left.) The last few years have have been a time vortex, so ballpark 8 years ago? Also, their newer labels/packaging is awful -- it's really hard to tell their beers apart at a glance.

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intoxicatedpuma t1_j7dwtn6 wrote

I got a 3D printer in December (Ankermake M5) but haven’t been having those issues. When I first started it up the filament was coming out a little stringy like you described but I ran the extrude function a few times and then printed a test file without any issue. I did notice the filament was getting stuck on the outside of the nozzle when running extrude, and had to spend a minute or so get it to separate and stop that.

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