Adventures with a $200 3D printer

So I was wondering why they gave me an actually decent putty knife with the printer. Holy E36 M3 is bed adhesion real.

The bed is aluminum with glass, and has a sharkskin style mat on it. To get my print off this morning I needed to heat the bed to 80C, and use all my might to get the print off. This could almost be a problem with smaller parts.

In what's more important to me, the slicer said 9.5 hours. The finish time was 11.5 hours. Of course it was something I hadn't printed on the old one, but it was a similar size. That makes me much happier.

First print failure with the lk4. Looks like a design issue on my part, but also maybe I need to level again because of the force required to remove prints. 

It got the base done, then part of the body, before leaving me a 100ish gram bundle of spaghetti.

I need to figure out a better way to get prints off the bed

Just ridiculous print quality. I really thought the A8 did a good job, this is just crazy to me

Longer LK4 is still chugging along. I've put 2 kilos of plastic through it with only one failure. 

Longer is releasing a 4k SLA printer soon, smaller area than I want, but bigger than most, $300 on kickstarter for now. I'm really thinning about it, but I want the Elegoo SATURN, $500, but fdm sized printing area.

So minor win here. This printer has sat dormant since spring of 21. I went to use it one day, the filament crumbled, and it just sat.

This morning I brought it upstairs, dusted it, put new tape down and a fresh spool of filament, and it's still printing perfect.

Same annoying issue with print speed estimation though. "30 minute print" means 75-90 minutes