Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Friday. I've got the day off! Huzza!

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@danlee – those spots look like “impact damage” on your screen – are you sure you’re not leaving bits of semi-cured resin in the VAT? At our local makerspace users there were complaining that the screens were failing every few weeks, whereas I’m still on the original screen on my Anycubic Photon after nearly 18 months (ok, I don’t print every week, but I’ve got about 400-500 hours clocked up  already – over a hundred platefuls, each averaging 4-5 hours).

It turned out that newer users hadn’t learned about partial failures and checking the FEP properly; and it was bits of cured resin (either on the FEP or floating about in the resin) being crushed into the screen that caused the round-blobs type failures.

 

Onto the questions:

Is your lawn in good condition? It’s covered in apple blossom from the tree at the bottom of the garden after a particularly windy night. Well, rather, the two tons of gravel I covered the lawn with a few years back are. That’s what makes keeping it neat and tidy so difficult 😉

What year is this? Surely it’s Year 2, right?

Would you like some biscuits? I would but I’d better not. In fact, it’s cutting out things like biscuits and having a cake each time we went out for coffee (we went out for coffee *a lot* during lockdown – which isn’t quite as contradictory as it sounds; we needed to walk about, and just so happened to almost always walk past a coffee shop during our daily hour of freedom) that helped pay the other half of my new guitar (the first half being paid for through painting contest winnings!)

Here’s some music for you. If this doesn’t make you sing and dance around the kitchen while making your breakfast, you’re dead inside (ok, we’ll settle for nodding your head along):