Guess what was wrong with my printer

Ive had my prusa mini for awhile now and a few months ago let my wife replace the x and y axis bearings.

A few things needed to be checked again but she did a pretty good job for not building it initally and overall i was proud and excited she wanted to do this.

The other day i printed a benchy for my kids and as you can see from the picture one is a little… Wonky.

I was able to correct it, but lets see if anyone can guess what exactly was the culprit.

The benchy was a stock one from prusaslicer, printed in prusament petg settings and with current firmware/imputshaping. They are oriented as they were printed. So the Bow was facing the Z axis, with the x axis being left to right from the pictures, and y axis being port to starboard.

For fairness why dont we limit guesses to 1 per person, ill DM you if you are correct or not, and will post what was the culprit on May 14th.



I don’t care what happened that is one of the funniest looking benchies I have ever seen!

This printer is now a modern art machine :grin:

Before you fix it please do a couple more test prints lol

Sadly ive already corrected it. But it was a bit of a unique issue.

Not sure if i posted it before but i had a blob of death in glow in the dark filament with this printer.

It didnt have any permanent damage from this “meltdown” and isnt related to the benchy issue.

You made your own elephants foot at home lol!!

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