We've Engaged The--- a 1/5000 re-enactment

Howdy!
Apologies for the reduced overt waffles -
I'm gearing up to undertake some other activities, so I don't have as much time to spare as
questing for work becomes an overriding priority...

For your enjoyment,
below are some images of the battle of the kitchen tabletop, a legendary ST encounter.

 Above: USS Incursion flies through (over, in the GOBS system) the wreckage of the large Wizkids cube - this being a failed print plate for a generic holder box on the k8200.

 Above:
The battleax of a Scout Fusion Tesseract wails on USS Titan, USS Incursion lines up an attack run on the wizkids cube, Enterprise strafes (firing all magazine of torpedoes). Galaxy X and the 2 other Bergstrom cruiser attack a fleeing/flanking Eaglemoss Sphere.

 Above: The borg wreck the federation left flank. Most of the Bergstrom destroyers don't survive this turn. The feds kill the Tactical Tetrahedron and a Scout in return, though. USS Titan prepares the main deflector for a particle pulse at the Fusion Tesseract...

 Above: The Tesseract makes short work of the shields of the incoming Bergstrom cruisers. The Obelisk/Pylon attacks Incursion, damaging her multiphasic cloak/holocloak, and the Eaglemoss Sphere damages USS Titan's right side nacelle, causing her to drift. Importantly, Titan's main deflector array remains powered and intact.

Above: The first turn... The Borg have arrived en-masse. Luckily, the federation scouts detected the Borg's incursion before reinforcements could arrive... A tactical cube (made by a friend) was also to have joined the battle for the kitchen table, but, unfortunately it broke before it could be transported.
This match was as much to test the large-scale combat mechanics of GOBS as it was to have fun.

We lost the battle for the table, the Borg narrowly won with a damaged sphere...
Everyone had fun though, and we all reflected on the new DVD box set of TNG,
as well as Prelude to Axanar/Axanar and ST:Renegades - both outstanding projects which leave JJBrams "trek" (I use the term loosely) in the space-dust.
If you enjoy trek, support Axanar, and ST:Renegades (especially if you're a borg fan-person - Icheb is back with vengeance, even if the effects look like early TNG and early TRON had a 80s lovechild...


Work still progresses on printing cubes and larger structures on the k8200 reliably,
though layers are having a lot of problems, as filament intermittently accumulates on the extruder nozzle or the plastic fails to feed despite the correct settings, and low fill density of the object.


 DISCLAIM:
above: Eaglemoss, Hallmark, Furuta, Wizkids, Studio Bergstrom are where most of the ship are from;
yours truly and the k8200 made the rest.
Trek is |for the moment at time of writing| the brain child of Roddenbury god rest his soul --- who encouraged all to share in his ideas, and remains CBS-ish or something. Infudgement non-intentional, geometry and coloration coincidental, and for private enjoyment purposes only.

The joys of a 3D extruder, 23

Howdy;
so, in trying to print larger objects in reasonable times,
I have attempted accelerations of 80mm/s^2.
This, however, reveals operator error -
the tuning may not be 100%perfect;
the extrusion is in dobs instead of a stream, so it's either a thin film white-black,
or else, the dobs are higher than the layer-height, and collide with the hotend nozzle, which
in turn,
DESTROYS YOUR PRINT,
because the rest of the print becomes pulled by the dobs that catch on the nozzle, which clogs the nozzle and
DESTROYS YOUR PRINT (repeatedly, after full strip and clean.


Smaller objects and precision objects are more forgiving;
this is different. It prints TERRIBLY.
Even with a 1.75mm filament and 1.75mm hotend,
or 1.75mm in a 3mm hotend,
or a 1.75mm filament in a 0.3mm hotend.

no matter the specs, it still happens -
dob not a stream,
dob hit nozzle,
nozzle tears mesh
(you are tearing me apart, nozzle!)

The infuriating thing?
it's printed successfully with the configuration, twice in the last hour!
I only need it to print this thing 6 times...

and I feel the answer's staring me in the face...
and I know its not the k8200s fault; its got to be operator stupidness.
80mm is, I'm told, slow by many standards.
And, the machine has been tuned by pros 3 times...
It's just not feeding correctly - too little if any extrusion, then, too much that blurts out in dobs...

I'll get there, and hopefully sort it
then I'll be able to reliably bring some awesome to market in a decent time.