Pointy bits on sticks

Anxiety.
I hate printing pointy bits on sticks. I always forget to paint supports all the way up. Fingers crossed they hold up and nothing fails on this 32 hr print T-T

:crossed_fingers:

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It died :sob:
Right as the back right one was about to start being supported by a second support tower, the nozzle did its round, went to lift away to move on, but the print fuzed, the bottom of the tower separated, the nozzle went to move to the next tower and crashed the previous tower into it.
Chaos :sob:
Thankfully I was sitting there watching it without blinking, waiting for it to hopefully bridge, so I was there to prevent anything catastrophic to the printer. Unfortunately, Octoprint had inexplicably disconnected from the interwebs sometime in the night, so while it kept printing, I had no control over it, so I had to manually kill it at the printer :tired_face:

This is why we paint supports or use support enforcers. Never try to print pointy down bits from A to B without supporting most/all of the path. They generally dont leave support artifacts since the print isnt actually dependent upon the support for bridging or overhangs, but it saves the day every time for just keeping those tall spindly towers from depending on mere plate/interface adhesion and luck.

They have almost always failed. Almost as in I think every time Ive attempted that sort of thing it always fails. (Horns. It’s always friggin horns.)

Ohh shoot :confused:
Sending hugs