I have just posted this on the Facebook page…
Hi everyone.
So the donation drive went really well… or so i thought. I managed to order the Archive X paints ( some out of stock so will re-order them soon). I can’t thank Guy at Archive X enough. Very helpful and , as they are based only half an hour away from me, he hand delivered the paints to my address the same day as ordering.
ON the printing side of things, i’ve almost finished printing the top section of the 5foot Falcon. (see attached photo) This thing eats filament but its looking good. Used the last of the first order of filament and i’m having to pause until i can order the final batch. (well i am having to have a short pause even if i had the extra filament at the moment, but i’ll come to that later)
Now bout getting that final batch… We hit the target ( we got £12 more than the target in the end) a few days after i became ill with a nightmare of a chest infection. And the first heatwave hit just as i was starting to feel a little better, so it was too hot upstairs to have the PC on (36 Degrees C in my workroom and no air conditioning). Then, when it started cooing down i went to order the second lot of filament only to find out that paypal had frozen the funds. I’d had donations from multiple email addresses totalling up to £267 that turned out to be from the same credit card and there had been a charge-back and my account was frozen while paypal investigated. Took over a week for them to unfreeze my account but now i’m £255 away from the total i needed to raise. I wasn’t given any explanation other than the credit card company had received a charge back request from the car owner. So i thought that someone had used a card to make donations that they wasn’t theirs. All the donations that used this card came from different email addresses and were within a week of each other, the last one being on the day before i made the last post stating that there was only £100 left to raise.
But a day or so after paypal unfroze my account and refunded the money i got an email from the person who had made the donations and made the charge back request. It was done deliberately. This person was very pleased with himself and very abusive towards me and what i am doing with this project. He knew that it would completely screw me up because i wouldn’t be able to cover the amount of funds he withdrew is i had spend them on the materials. Luckily , thanks to being ill and the heatwave, i hadn’t had the chance to place my order. So he failed in that respect.
But i do still have to keep the donation drive open longer and just hope that i can raise enough to cover this hole in the funds. So, if you can still help out , then i would be greatly appreciative. You can find the link to donate in one of the earlier posts on this page.
The last thing i want to cover is something i touched on earlier in this post. That i’m having to have at least a week or two off from printing even if i had been able to get the filament. Most people who have an Elegoo Centauri Carbon 1 will have come across the “Error code 103” problem which stems from their shitty USB cable going to the hot-end. Well i got it half way through a print and the thing stopped and the error code came up. Rebooted and then just got stuck in the “anomaly in printhead heating- reboot” screen cycle (see picture). Reboot, screen comes up again every time and i’m stuck . can’t do anything. Luckily it is in warranty and i’m in contact with Elegoo who seem pretty good at shipping you the parts needed to fix the printer. Done all the tests they requested and it looks like the USB cable, the hotend board and the main board need replacing. I’m just waiting back to hear from them to fins out what’s happening next. It’s a very common issue and they have produced a replacement USB cable that is supposed to fix this problem arising in the future. But sadly the parts look like they have to be shipped from china so it is going to b e a few weeks to get this up and running again.
In the mean time, now things are cooling down a little at night here in the UK by the looks of things ( well it is tonight at least anyway) , I’m working on Vaders voice in ANH to hopefully bring it closer sounding to how it appears in the other two films. But i will cover than in my next post.
See you in a few days…
