08-22-2025 — The End is Hot

Howdy all. Another nice day outside - fall like. No rain expected again until maybe Sunday. And Air Quality is decent. I still stayed inside. Ragweed is up high right now and I think that is making me stuffy. Never an issue down in Florida. Oh, well. Lawn team is way behind this week because of the drizzling for a day and a half. They expect to be here tomorrow (Saturday). Grass isn’t that high anyway. Shoot, until it rained on Tuesday, it was still brown from 3 weeks of no liquid.

I made a run to the Grocery Store this morning for the first time in 14 days. Bought lots of freezer foods and much more meat than I normally do. Both were on super sales that I couldn’t resist.

I spent the morning downloading and organizing Xmas laser project files. I’ll soon be combining the ones I like to make Xmas Card package stuffers. The files are super cheap on Etsy, so I normally buy many more than I’ll use. This allows my creative juices to flow.

Yesterday, I was 3D printing some filament spool extender rings on both printers. These rings allow me to use spools of Sun-Lu and Elegoo filaments in the AMS units. The AMS expects the spool to have the Bambu Lab preferred diameter of 200mm. But other brands’ spools may only be 194 to 197 mm.

Anyway, at one point, on the X1 Carbon printer, I got a Spaghetti seen on build plate message. Well, being the fool I can be sometimes, I clicked, Clear, and Resume, and never bothered to check. Here is the result.

Totally destroyed the HotEnd and extruder and the sensors on the hotend. Oops.

So, I began to search for the replacements I bought about the same time I bought the printer. I know I have 6-8 of them somewhere — differing nozzle sizes. But I could only find one, and it was for the other printer. UGH. I dug through every bin/drawer/box/etc., in that room and found none of them, nor the other spare parts I could see in receipts that I purchased and received.

Fortunately, this specific one was available from Amazon as a next day shipment. And, it did get here today around 2 pm.

Here at 2 pm.

Old one removed by 2:30 notice that broken burnt cable that was no longer connect to wherever the sensor went.

And by 3 pm, the new one installed. Those tiny little connectors were very difficult to unplug, and worse to plug back in.

Testing went great. The print was much smoother than they’ve been in awhile. The old part had 498 hours on it. Sort of like driving your car 25,000 miles without a tune-up.

I have re-ordered a variety of replacement parts again and I sure hope I put them somewhere I can find them when needed. Makes it much easier to Enjoy Life