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knave:

--- Quote from: pbj on January 05, 2017, 04:40:53 pm ---Get the butter.

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But don't tell the filament, we want an authentic reaction.

pbj:

SammyWI:
I wouldn't recommend using anything that will leave a residue on the filament. Could easily cause printing issues or clogging. Don't leave your hotend heated up for long periods when not printing. If your hotend has a cooling fan, leave the fan running after shutting off the hotend heater until the temp drops below about 40C. Both of those things will help prevent clogging.

Howard_Casto:
Ok so I finally got my filament. I'm running into problems. :(

The first problem was that I couldn't get the printer to take the filament... apparently the filament guide mechanism is designed poorly, so I had to remove the fan from the extruder (which essentially disassembles the whole extruder assembly), feed it into the hot end, and reassemble. Then I had some really bad problems with leveling... I finally got it to an acceptable level.

Ok now for the final problem. The printer is printing the first layer of a file perfectly, but once it needs to move up, it jumps waaaay too far up and I've essentially got silly string from then on. Now I haven't modded it or anything, this is the stock printer with the original firmware installed and I'm trying to print from the test files on the included sd card. Do you think the examples could be the problem?

I'll install the software and find a file later tonight, but if anyone has had experience with this I could sure use some help.... worked on it about an hour at lunch.

Howard_Casto:
So the sd card was corrupted, so that might be part of the problem. I think CURA and/or the built in firmware might be the rest of the issue. I tried some more prints and as per usual the first layer printed fine. On the second layer it jumped up like an inch, so I'm not sure what is going on. I used the included cura profile for my printer and I tried one of their models as well as one I converted... same problem with both.

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