Hi all.
PSA: I want to share with you my noobtastic mistake so that all my laugh at my folly and learn from my example. All I can say in my defence is sometimes you just don't know what you don't know.
After burning through the resin that came with the printer on a comedy of errors, including storing some of it in an airtight glass container in a spot which gets direct sunlight in the afternoon, I finally had a print that stuck to the metal instead of the plastic but was horribly warped and broken in half. Progress!
After buying new resin I tripled the exposure time and ensured the image was perfectly centred. Finally, I had a print complete! But it was strangely twisted.
I thought, if only there were some way to keep the build plate from wobbling around during the print process. I tried tightening the screw further to see if that would help. It was as tight as it would go... but then I noticed the second alan key. "What is that for?" I wondered.
I undid the screw and discovered a second one deep inside the hole and used the second key to tighten it and as if by magic, the build plate became stable. You know, like I should have done the first time I set the thing up.
I've now realigned the zero point for the build plate and tightened the screw properly. I expect the print run I'm currently completing will be my first fully successful print. I look forward to sharing some great prints with you in the near future.
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