The bowden tube between the extruder and hotend somehow got unscrewed, and the extruder just kept unspooling filament around the room, as the printer kept happily going on.
Here's a photo from farther out:
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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may favorite print was a bust of plato that started doing the spaghetti thing, just above the eyebrows. it sat on the shelf of shame for a long time, until somebody asked if I could print them another. (they thought it was cool, and didn't realize it's for... "oopsies" that are more humorous.)