I have resumed the folly of 3d printing after a nearly year long hiatus

place your bets until how long it'll be until I'm ranting about how printers are a sin against man and god

crashed my slicer

I'm printing a calibration cube because I don't know what state I left this printer in.

presumably in the standard state of "it kinda works but I don't trust it"

crashed my slicer again
and again

third attempt worked.

I probably should have updated octoprint before hitting go, and I probably should have done some manually leveling, but hey, it seems to be printing so far.

also the filament has been sitting in a garage, loaded into the printer, for a year.
it's probably really shit by now. as soon as the cube finishes I'm gonna need to swap to something, anything, else

there's a lot of work that can and should be done on this printer, but it's all gonna be limited by the fact I can't stand up for more than 5 minutes

well, there's something going on with the z-axis, but it printed more or less.

I've also got to switch to a different power supply for the pi that's running octoprint, and upgrade the pi to a new OS (which requires backing up and restoring existing octopi settings) because my python is EOL.

so it's working, but I'm still sighing a lot

anyway I loaded new filament and I'm printing a chep cube again!

wow it's terrible

okay I printed a CE5P calicat after attempting to fix the z-offset issue. It still is horrible.

possibly this is mostly a temperature issue: I'm using the stock temperatures but I think I upgraded this to an all-metal hotend that needs to run higher?

include the photo, foone

reprinted with higher temp. it's better, but still bad.

so probably there's another issue. I remember I did a lot of rebuilding of the hot end in the final days of using this before, so who knows what's clogged in there?

I printed on a raft because the z-offset is still fuckt

a higher temp (220°C) and 110% flow rate seems to be working well enough.

had to dig out my flir phone to take pictures for silly cellphone reasons.

Anyway, this is the 220°C 110% flow calicat. It looks way better, right?

So I foolishly started a 9-hour print and yeah it's still shit.

also octoprint is yelling that my pi is undervolting. I'm specifically using a dedicated 5v 2.5A wall-wart, how is it STILL undervolting? ugh.