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I was printing some last meters... Very last meters.

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[–] brian@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a good thing you're using direct drive. That wouldn't even fill the bowden on the ender 5.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 0 points 6 months ago

I sometimes manually push new filament through the bowden to finish a print on my MINI. No retraction once it reaches the extruder, though.

[–] EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

That's close? It is another 1% scale benchy!

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I use those until it triggers the filament sensor.