Originally posted by u/garretcompton at 2025-06-30T04:23:52Z
Working on a Masterpoint and 10 hours into the print I had a power outage. Tried to restart the print at work and checked on it only to see a major layer shift. Figured I’d have to reprint it anyways, but still sucks.
u/Apprehensive_Tap4837 · 2025-06-30 04:31:21 UTC · score 2
Ok hear me out.... would a tea lamp teracotta pot heater worked to keep an enclosure at temp or higher? I'd think so!
u/garretcompton · 2025-06-30 04:39:39 UTC · score 2
Not sure if there would be enough space in the enclosure, and I’d be worried about a potential fire hazard since there is a lot of vibration, but I know people have had success with using 12V car heaters and PTC heaters.
u/Apprehensive_Tap4837 · 2025-06-30 06:01:16 UTC · score 1
If powers off won't it just be paused when it comes back on? Tea candle heaters are not going to get hot enough to be a issue as long as it dosent automatically start and even then it's just a mess issue with wax. Nothing to burn inside of a pot and even if it does come on I don't run my machine fast enough to shake or knock over one. Your printer and encloser would be on the floor if you were able to knock the candle heater over, just avoid the tool path
u/garretcompton · 2025-06-30 06:10:05 UTC · score 1
I was thinking of a tea light heaters you can make using a tea light candle with a terracotta pot over it, not a lamp like a dummy. Definitely think your idea would work pretty good
u/Apprehensive_Tap4837 · 2025-06-30 07:12:00 UTC · score 1
Man with people today I try to be as descriptive as possible.
Had a dude in his early 20s work under/with me once. He said Tap... you ever find and rattle snakes....
"All the time my dude" Tap...
What do you do with them? I said you got to stomp it really fast so it dosent bite ya.
MONTHS later he's on a job deep in diamond back territory and he's flipping half rotted wood pallets looking for rattlers.
"Hey....."let's call him White Chedder because that's what we did actually call him. It's his rap name.
"Whatcha doing"
"TAP told me how to find rattle snakes" Chedder....
"Chedder...what were you going to do if you found one?" Management....
"Stomp it real quick to kill it" Chedder....
"WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT" Everyone...
"I want a rattle snake tail and Tap won't give me one"
......"Tap said if I'm real quick the snake cant bite me then i can get my own."
"You were going to stomp a rattler if you found it for it's tail?" .... "and you thought that wad a good idea? Management...
So here I am, in HR in shock. I was AMAZED he remembered my instructions to the T months later.
"You think I told the kid to get himself bit be realistic" Tap... denying his ass off.
Didn't get in trouble, told not to do it again tho. Like I'd ever be able to do THAT again.
u/garretcompton · 2025-06-30 07:17:30 UTC · score 1
That’s an amazing story, and as a guy in his early 20s, I could totally see myself in his shoes 😂
u/Apprehensive_Tap4837 · 2025-06-30 06:45:54 UTC · score 1
Yes exactly. Will the printer even restart automatically after power comes back on? I thought it preheat then pauses at that temp.
u/Cobra__Commander · 2025-06-30 06:33:57 UTC · score 1
Tell me about your enclosure. Is it good enough for printing nylon?
u/garretcompton · 2025-06-30 06:52:50 UTC · score 1
It’s a TopCube enclosure. Haven’t printed much nylon, but with the few PA6-CF prints I have done, it has worked pretty good. Mainly have it for preventing cat hair and drafts though, there isn’t any active heating but it does trap some heat.
u/Some-Ad-385 · 2025-06-30 10:03:20 UTC · score 1
I'm heartbroken for you.
u/garretcompton · 2025-06-30 18:35:39 UTC · score 1
Had another outage because someone crashed into a pole at 55% complete. This is god cursing me for printing a Hi-Point!
u/DickzOutForHarambe · 2025-06-30 04:57:35 UTC · score 1
Same exact thing just happened to me a few minutes ago on a different print, I had less than 10 minutes left. Really does suck man, better luck on the next one
u/thehumanvirusttv · 2025-06-30 04:39:18 UTC · score 1
I had the same thing happen (not with power outage but filament feeding issue) and got a weird layer on my orca lower then it popped like 10g making me just shy on filament lol
u/garretcompton · 2025-06-30 04:42:57 UTC · score 1
That sounds so annoying 😂 thankfully this is a brand new roll and only used ~160g of filament
u/thehumanvirusttv · 2025-06-30 13:05:23 UTC · score 1
Haha it’s just my luck! Had to finish a black print with like 49 layers of grey lmfao. It happens. It was more of a mock up to make sure I had the settings right but I did and it woulda been a nice print haha. Oh well it looks better in polymaker FDE.
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