Heroic Printing Failures with the Thing-O-Matic and MK7

After 16+ attempts at printing out a large box with the TOM, using a bunch of recommended settings, it's time to give up !!

Either the object first layer won't stick to the HBP and it warps uncontrollably or the filament gets so warm printing large surface area objects that it melts in the extruder feed gears and then the printing stops altogether !

Despite numerous fans on the extruder motor and lots of parameter changes, there's no improvement in the ability of the TOM to make it past th