Things didn't go real smoothly for my first print. Well, technically my second print, as I printed a whistle the day I got the printer, and I have printed a few things in the past using my daughter's printer. Ok, so these vise jaws are the first "real" print job on *my* new printer.
So, back to the saga of the soft jaws. I had found some soft jaws on Thingiverse that I tried to print. They were printing such that the grid pattern on the jaw faces was first to print, so the printer was making all these little squares on the print bed. Unfortunately some of the squares weren't sticking, so I abandoned that idea.
I decided to try my hand at making my own soft jaw drawing in Fusion 360. It worked quite well (fortunately I found a YouTube video that showed how to make the grid on the jaw face).
Fusion then sent the drawing to Cura, where I then made a second jaw copy, and then saved the G-Code file to an SD card.
I set the infill at 60%, as I didn't think the jaws needed to be solid inside. After all, they are going to be used to hold delicate stuff.
The printer was running overnight and I figured I'd have a finished product in the morning. Nope. In error I had mounted the filament spool on a set of these rollers (see below photo) to provide a straight shot for the filament from the spool to the printer extruder:
They're called "the ultimate spool holder" (TUSH), but in my case, they weren't. Somehow the spool tipped off the rollers during the night and caused a tangle of filament. The printer had stopped because the filament broke (a nice feature of this printer). I cleaned up the mess in the morning and tried resuming the print (another nice feature of this printer) but the print head had transitioned up with no filament coming out during the night (prior to the filament breaking), so I attempted to lower the print head to the right height. I didn't get it close enough, so the last 1/3 of the jaws didn't stick to the lower 2/3 of the jaws. Not a huge deal though, as the jaws still work.
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