My print hours on my A1 mini, which i’ve had for ~1.5 years, has >1800 hours of print time. Am I addicted or is this normal?

#PrintClinic Could anyone help me with this? recently, my A1 mini (with AMS) has been really struggling printing.. i’ve restarted the same print I don’t know how many times, but the printer can’t seem to print it. i’ve also tried several other prints and have seen similar results. Symptoms: -the printer gives a lot of spool/filament may be stuck, even if I can’t find an issue -Air prints or prints with very little filament coming out the nozzle -at one point the nozzle fell off during a print -a lot of “the extruder is not extruding normally” error reports what i’ve tried so far: -heating up the nozzle to 270* -heating the nozzle to 270* and manually pushing filament through (comes out in an even flow) -heating up the nozzle to 300* -several filaments, though all were overture PLA -3 of my AMS slots, my 4th is currently out of comission and needs a new PFTE(?) tube -checking inside the toolhead and feeder ports for stuck filament Some other things: i would like to try unclogging it with a needle but the needle that came with my printer had vanished and i dont have anything else small enough The build plate has been recently cleaned I also dont have another nozzle to try, but the nozzle i am using is very worn out and could probably use replacing, so that could be an issue as well. thank you for helping, and please let me know if there is any other info you need.(Edited)

Beginner’s Question: Why is my 3d printer giving my prints wigs? recently i’ve noticed a really weird issue with a lot of my prints, regardless of the modeler, filament, etc.. whatever this is. At first i scoffed and assumed it was some weird, bed plate spagetti problem, but the error occurs in higher layers of the print, where it almost looks like the model is wearing a wig. I’m pretty new to 3d printing, and have no clue why this could be happening (though i suspect it might have to do with my nossle, which is so worn-out that calling it so is an understatement) but i would really like to know so I can get this to stop! Thank you!!! #Questions #Printing Issue #Beginner #Support

Beginner’s Question: Glow-in-the-dark filament and the AMS lite I have a Bambu A1 mini alongside its AMS lite, and have encountered some problems that I was wondering if anyone had answers to. I have Panchroma (Polymaker) rainbow glow in the-dark filament, and have used it for several projects. However, the problem I keep running into is that whenever used with the AmS lite, the filament is always “getting stuck”. However, when I go to fix the problem, there is not anything to ever actually make it stuck, the printer just freaked out. None of my other filaments have this problem, however this is my only glow filament which has a much different texture, so I was wondering, does that have anything to do with it? Is this a usual problem with glow filaments? and, is there any way to fix it? Thank you! #Beginnerhelp #Questions(Edited)

Should Models that use AI have to disclose that in the model description? Obviously Makerworld has tons of models that were created using AI. So, do you think that makers that used AI should have to disclose that? Does it matter to you whether you support a human or a machine? Or do you think that models made by humans will always be higher quality?

Beginner’s Question: Printer Speeds I’m pretty new to the 3d printing world, and have only been printing for ~year. My question is, what printer speeds (Ludicrous, Sport, Normal, Silent) are best in which scenarios? I’ve really only used normal as of now, to be safe, but I was wondering if I could better utilize these settings. Thank you! #Questions #Beginnerhelp(Edited)