Hey Oliver. Welcome back matey. Glad you can make this one

It jammed. But the head kept going, so it wasn't feasible to just remove the jam and resume printing. All the previous effort was, therefore, a total waste of time.   Which is fine.

lol no no I mean by the time my phone bothers letting me know there’s a post, not the actual post 🙂 

Reached the end of the current spool of PLA (yes, I only buy one at a time, yes it would be cheaper per unit to buy several, no, I don't have the available petty cash to do that, yes, I wish more people bought my plays so I could be rich and/or famous....) Decided to increase my stress by getting out my Sunlu filament welding machine. For a mere forty dollars, this device can sort of connect two strands of filament in only five six easy steps, as long as you have three hands and the patience of a saint. I'm now watching the next piece being printed, and waiting for the notification that the filament has jammed.     In all seriousness, if you're careful, it does work. Certainly works better than a lot of the DIY methods I saw online. But I can't help feeling that what they have engineered here is the absolute minimum. With a little more thought and effort they could have built something that was easier and more reliable. But I may have saved myself thirty dollars this morning, by joining together three or four dog-ends of spools. Probably enough to print off the next two pieces, if it doesn't jam.