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Took a couple failed prints to figure out something was wrong. Pulled the filament and saw it was melted WAY too high! Thankfully I've got a pack of spares, so pretty simple to swap out.

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[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could’ve easily soldered that wire back to the pad, it’s exposed

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I could have, sure. Wanted to keep working on my current projects so went the quick way and just swapped it out. It will be salvaged for some future project.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spares have saved my ass many a time, easy to swap now and refurb later. Do you have any idea how the fan managed to fail right at the joint? I wouldn't think that'd be under much, if any, stress. Did it just vibrate itself to death?

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's my guess. Either hours and hours of vibrations, or just a faulty solder joint