3D Printing Practices makes perfect

Managed to crash my comptuer I use for my printer last night. Seems as though all of my hard earned Cura profiles are gone for good. Soooo, just wingin' it, going from what I actually could remember for this brand of Pla+ I ended up with 2 miserable failures. After re-guessing for the 3rd time it's looking pretty promising. At least so far.

Looks like I'm getting some ringing/ghoshting but it's pretty close.

Or 4th or 5th.

Aye..

In have had terrible luck with my glass beds. I would make sure the clamp is holding the bed tight.

Glass is fantastic when it is..The rest of the time it's, well.....

Trigorilla/Anycubic make 220x220 and 310x310 UltraBase glass beds. I rarely have to use blue tape and when the bed is hot the print sticks, when it cools off prints pop right off without any tools or force needed. Fairly cheap on Amazon.

My current print surface is cut from a mirror that came out of a giant DLP tv. Local glass shop charged me a whole 4 bucks to cut and grind it. My thought was if it was "flat" enough to project an image it must be flat enough to print on. I use regular old un-scented hairspray on the "glass" and blue tape for flexibles. I did buy one of those overpriced fancy bed "stickers", but I'm so terrified of ruining it I'll probably never use it.

I'm happy to find it this close after round 4. That's a 12" ruler w/1/4"ish standoff for reference. I'm not the guy that can leave anything alone so you'll see crazy changes on my "stuff" regularly. To date I've learned that part cooling layout can make WAY more difference than I'd have thought. After about a dozen different variations in cooling vent/fan layouts it occurred to me that easy adjustability would work in my favor, hence the Loc-Line. Went from abysmal failure to pretty damn good by doing nothing other than moving the cooling "vent" end maybe 3/8"

Now to see if it'll actually hold water...Any bets?

She holds water! A lot of water, a gallon maybe? Set it on a paper towel for proofing. At least for 3 hours.. I claim success unless it fails later that is...