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I've had a MK4S for over a week now, and 100% of the prints I've tried to make on the textured sheets have partially or totally failed. PLA prints beautifully on the smooth sheet, but PLA, PETG and ABS, I think I could print on the surface of a 10 inch tank of oil with more success than the textured sheet. Plastic doesn't stick to it. I've wiped it with isopopyl, I've washed it with dawn...it's a bad print surface and I want my money back.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What is real? How do you define real?

I mean, I haven't had the torque wrench calibrated a split second before the wrench was applied to the faucet handle by state and federal members of the Department of Weights And Measures, but the print bed is hot to the touch when it's finished printing, yet it doesn't burn my skin like the one time in A&P school when I set my welding filler rod down over my pliers, then reached to pick up my pliers, burned my thumb on the welding rod and smelled it before feeling it because at the temperature steel melts your nerves die faster than they transmit pain signals...I strongly hypothesize my bed heater is functioning correctly and accurately.

Don't go to airplane mechanic school, kids. That's a career for old and mentally ill people. Become an influencer, sell NFTs, become a prostitute, do something healthy, honorable and productive with your life. Let aviation be that thing two idiots from Ohio did in North Carolina that one time and dismiss it as a fantasy for degenerates.

[–] autriyo@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They must've really done a number on you, huh?

I'm a CFI, I used to teach flight school. I went to A&P school. Haven't flown since.