This print is going to put me over 6,000 hours on my trusty ol’ Rostock Max v1.
And there’s still something so satisfying about a great first layer…
Oh that’s a crisp first layer.
And I thought it was crazy when I hit 1000 hours on my main printer! That is awesome! How long have you had the machine?
Looking sweet 
@Griffin_Paquette It was purchased 6/19/2013. I believe the first print was successfully completed on June 30th - so just over 3 years. Not bad considering 8 hours a day, 5 days a week is 2080 hours.
WOW!! Any major problems?
It just finished, 250 days, 1 hour 40 minutes of print time - 6001 hours!
35168.8 meters of filament.
Good times.
@Taylor_Landry does the machine log the time on it by itself?
@Ryan_Iffert Oh I’ve had a few fun things…
Some sample nylon filament entombed the original effector and an E3D v5 hot end in nylon - literally had to cut it off the machine and replace the arms, effector, and hot end.
I keep that hot end on my desk as a trophy.
Had some unused power wires from the original ATX supply find their way to one of the pulleys and short out/blow my power supply. (Wire management isn’t just for looks)
Other than that, it just runs and runs.
I had a smoothie board on it for about 2 months, but decided to go back to the RAMBo and put the smoothie on a different machine. Now, I just want to run it the way it is until it dies.
It feels like it’s got another 6000 hours in it.
I’m a huge @SeeMeCNC1 fan. They make a great machine.
@Griffin_Paquette Repetier logs “active time”
I haven’t confirmed, but based on what I’ve seen with it when I watch the active seconds, I believe it logs the time that the heater(s) are on.
So, I haven’t actually been printing for 6000 hours - I would imagine at least a few hundred hours of that is preheating/heating up, and other similar non-print activities. But it’s pretty close if you look at the meters/hour of filament. Almost 6 meters of filament per hour seems about right.
I love a good first layer. Although it does set you up for a fall when layer 382 goes horribly, horribly wrong… 