Just today, my printer seems to fail after heating the bed, and 75% or so to heating the nozzle. The “Snapmaker” boot screen with 3 animated dots shows and never goes away… I was trying to print something that had previously worked before. I was just printing another. after an hour or so, the splash screen was still there and had not recovered… so i switched it off and on… same thing… tried another file… same thing…
ah… i went in that side panel… reluctantly because of all the “do not touch” wording on the warranty page. for a product made for makers, fixers, and doers… the warranty represents a serious misunderstanding of the target demographic.
I was able to something-something the cables and it seems to work now.
I am so thankful the web devs for snapmaker.com left out a store to buy spare parts, a “how to fix” section similar to what i would find at ifixit.com, and a troubleshooting section as a main category.
i have lots of bed adhesion issues, issues where it seems like the extruder may be slipping on the filament. Overall, my Anet A8 has been a far superior printer in almost every way but looks…