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Operation Change The FEP

Operation Change The FEP

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Making it good again

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I ran the screen test pattern from the utils menu, to make sure it wasn’t a problem with my LCD screen (I’m still running the original LCD and I reckon it must be getting close to the 200 hours limit where it starts to break down and need replacing).

Making it good again

Everything looked good. I checked the FEP film.

It didn’t actually look that bad. But I decided that something had to change to make things better, and the FEP seemed like the easiest place to start.

Making it good again

I was quite nervous about making any changes to my printer. It’s been working brilliantly from the day I took it out of the box, and I’ve read so many horror stories about people having nothing but trouble after they changed their FEP that I was tempted to just leave things alone and live with the slightly-over-exposed finish to my minis and gluing on extra limbs as necessary – after all, it was still printing minis (three out of eight on a plate being a bit dodgy is still better than some people manage with their printers!)

But – just like toothache – I knew that sooner or later, I’d have to get it seen to. So I jumped straight in. Actually, I didn’t. I spent about an hour looking at various blog posts, watching Youtube videos, hitting the forums etc. to try to mitigate any potential mishaps before they happened….

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200 hours lifespan for the LCD screen? That seems like a very short time for a device that is on for several hours each time it is used.

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