Do you want to know a secret? I didn’t actually mess up the audio. This was always going to be a silent unboxing from the beginning. I don’t know why I thought that was a good idea at the time, but I figure I can get away with this once.
I considered making the video black-and-white and adding a film grain, but it was hard enough to see what’s going on without those distractions, so I got rid of them.
The silent card format allowed me to take control of what I said in post. If anyone can lip read, there are parts where the card doesn’t match what I’m saying at all. Because unboxings can sometimes be unpredictable, and I may have set my expectations too high for this one. It was, after all, an unboxing, The goal shouldn’t have been “check out the first print”. Fortunately, like I said, I was able to save it in post.
Eagle eyed viewers may notice that in the #Whatcha-Makin review, filmed a little while after I recorded this, I have the JGAurora up. It seems that since I’ve put old reliable in the shed, I haven’t been able to find a replacement that I like. Yes, even the brand new Adventure 3 is having troubles. Super under extrusion, as a matter of fact. I’ve got the parts to fix it now, but part of the problem is that the shed is so cold that it triggers the runaway heat detection and so the printer refuses to some to temperature. So it’s good to confirm that the heat detection is working. But until the weather heats up, I move the Adventure 3 inside, or I insulate the shed, I’m gonna have a hard time getting it printing. Right now, I’ve got other things to focus on.
This is the 3rd of these printers that I’ve used, and the only one I’ve had any troubles with. The first two were from Monoprice, so I guess technically this is the first from Flashforge-USA. I’m still excited by this printer and there’s a chance this’ll be my kid’s new toy one day. But for now I need to replace the hot end. However, there’s been a bit of a mess up with that, too. Near as I can tell the only way to buy the hot end replacement is to buy a whole new hot end assembly. It’s only $22, which isn’t bad for a whole extruder assembly, but is a little more than you might want to pay for a nozzle replacement. But maybe i’ll do a tear down of the nozzle that doesn’t work and the hot end assembly to see if it’ll help anyone make a replacement, maybe with some more open source hardware. So you can look forward to that.
