Is that scratching on the build plate ? I had this happen on a different brand of printer My Makerbot has a zaxis offset setting to adjust for things like that . Perhaps your model has a similar setting ? <| sep |> I don ' t know , I keep laying down and I just can ' t sleep . I really fucked up my sleep cycle in the last week and have been suffering for it . <| sep |> Thanks . Just bought it . I was only hesitating because I would prefer the g 602 or the g 700 s , but at $ 25 it ' s a steal . <| sep |> Empathy . That ' s all it is . Even if I wanted to , I couldn ' t stop it . <| sep |> I am probably way less scared of the EC going faithless than I am of Trump in the oval office , though . Yes . Unprecedented situations call for unprecedented action .