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[blinky465 17028xp 2]

Oooh. We got badgers.

I took my AnyCubic Photon for a spin this evening. For no other reason that it’s not been used for about three weeks and still had a tankful of resin sat in it (I printed a lid cover off Thingiverse a while back, so the resin was still good). I found some minis – they most definitely were not LOTR rip-offs, honestly, but consisted of a dwarf, an elf, a human, a hobbit and a large armoured guy with a raggedy cloak and tin helmet – absolutely, definitely not LOTR proxies.

Any way, I had my first ever failed print. I’ve had my printer since January and was surprised it’s taken until now for a full-on failure. A few minis still managed to stick to the plate, but the main man and the hobbit was nowhere to be seen.

It was only as I took them off, I realised – I hadn’t secured the resin tank in place before starting printing. D’oh!

So I’m marking this one up as “user error” rather than a print failure. I tightened the tank in place, set the same file printing just now and heard the comforting “slurp/rip” as the first layer peeled free of the FEP. We’ll find out in the morning if they turned out ok….