Glad to hear you got it working! That’s really weird about the lack PLA filament. Lot to lot variation or maybe their supply is changing? Mine is actually pretty nice.
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Maybe? I was a batch #5. I’m wondering if the PLA got damaged in the shipment from heat or something. The box was pretty warm when I got it (I’m in Texas) plus whatever heat it endured on the trip to the US. The PLA from SM feels way different than the PLA from Priline. More oozes out when I tell it to load from Priline and, obviously, more oozes out when it’s printing. I get some black in tomorrow. I’ll see how it does with the same settings from the 1st successful print.
It’s humidity that’s the big problem.
You could try drying out the filament in the oven and see if it helps.
Or just throw it away and move on.
-S
…big oof then. I’m in Houston, TX. I live in 70% humidity. Any suggestions besides running my A/C all the time for fixing that?
Keep the filament in a sealed container with dessicant gel when not actually printing? Or there are active filament-drying systems on the market—essentially, little sealed bins with their own heaters.
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Print a lot so you run out of filament before it becomes a problem.
Or:
Plastic bin with a gasket lock.
Vacuum travel bags.
Tupperware.
Anything air tight and then throw some silica gel in with it.
There are some cool designs out there (both home made and buyable) that allow you to keep the filament in a container and dispense through a hole in the side.
-S
Howdy Houston, DFW here.
I don’t have your humidity but it is not zero here either. In years of printing I’ve never actually worried about humidity but I’ve also only printed ABS before. Is PLA really that much more sensitive?
Always wondered about fitting a spool inside the enclosure so heat would help keep it dry.
BTW, got my barrel bolts for my pipe clamp holder today, perfect fit. I never even disassembled it from the dry fit pics to glue it. Clamps perfectly. Best thing I’ve ever designed 100% myself.
Thanks all! I’ll give some of those ideas a try.
Alrighty! So I finally got around to replacing the extruder tip and putting thermal paste in the thermowhosawhatsit hole. I’ve yet to print anything and probably won’t for a few days, but here’s what I was greeted with. Hopefully the new tip will work better on Tuesday! Will keep yall updated.
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Looks like the hot end got way too hot for the filament your using and sat on there… side note, nice Logitech equipment, looks like a 502 mouse and a 910 keyboard?
Yeah those pics look…leaky somehow.
I’m pretty religious about not wanting the hot end heating without extruding, hardly ever. Paranoid perhaps, based on my old equipment. That’s part of why I like to do the hot bed calibration right before printing - make sure the bed is pretty close to temp (head at only 100C) so when I actually do toggle over to the USB to print, and the startup code from Luban seems to start both at the same time despite the fact the head heats up much faster, I’m not “waiting” on the bed a long time.
Of course that 99% bug is also a potential gotcha, if it hangs before turning off the heater.
atom,
That’s a G502 and my old G910 which just died (5 years). Had to replace it with the newer G910 without the funky angled keys.
rtrski,
I’ll try calibrating with the head at 100C and the bed at temp this time. We’ve only 99% bug once right after updating to 1.10. Since then it’s been working as intended.
We’re going to try our successful “paste pusher” as a reprint with the thermal paste today and see how it goes.
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YAAAAAAAY
So calibrating the bed hot plus the thermal paste in the thermistor hole seems to have done the trick. It’s printing beautifully. Got another “stuck at 99%” bug but that’s easily fixed.
Thanks for the help everyone, things should be smooth sailing for the 3D module for now!
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