Got my first fail

[Kitecraft]

Fell asleep on the couch so of course it goes off the rails!

[Mac The Knife]

They're sneaky like that. Wait until your first overnight print.

[JFettig]

I just had this happen on an overnight print for the first time. Huge mess. What causes this? My parts are still stuck down to the build plate.

[Mac The Knife]

Bad section of filament?

[Khalid Khattak]

Mine will come soon ... Failures brings success...keep up improving...

[JFettig]

Mine is about 6 hours worth of mess. Its gross.

[RegB]

I *HOPE* this is just a browser problem, but I can't display the attachment.
I have examined all my user control settings, I can display attachments in other threads, etc.
Is this attachment in an unusual format, i.e. one that I haven't yest set my browser to recognize ?

EDIT: The only thing the attachment button shows as code is <dt> Attachments </dt>
I think there should be a link somewhere in there to an actual image.

Yet another edit;
The pictures in the next post display just fine, that post was made while I was doing the previous edit.

[JFettig]

This is what I woke up to
[img]http://i.imgur.com/03eOnX8.jpg[/img]

I was using the whole print bed, It gouged right into the middle part and the far part(closest to z tower)
[img]http://i.imgur.com/qK13Sys.jpg[/img]

You can see that it looks like it was trying to lay down its first layer of top in that picture for about 1/2 square inch, but that isn't the top of the part.

About all I can guess is that it snagged the shower curtain enclosure... as you can see I'm building my enclosure

[RegB]

Difficult to tell.
I have had things go terribly wrong when a part breaks free from the bed, or if a corner curls up.

It seems the longer (LARGER) the job the more shrinkage becomes a breaking free risk - once the part touches the nozzle all bets are off, filament seems to go anywhere/everywhere.

[Kitecraft]

This is what I woke up to

Ouch!

[Eaglezsoar]

I would be extremely depressed seeing something like that!
All you can do is trash it and try again, I 'm sure that most of your prints come out ok.

[JFettig]

I have reprinted them, one at a time.