re: The Official 3D Printing Thread

That's actually a great idea. I wanted to build an enclosure for my printer. I'm gonna scoop a table next time I visit an IKEA. Thanks for sharing.

thats awesome. What brand filament and what were your settings?

If you have problems with your bed not being perfectly flat, go buy a set of 5 mirror tiles from Lowe’s. Glacier bay is the brand I believe. They are 12”x12” so I only lost a few mm of build area on mine. Haven’t had any leveling or adhesion issues since swapping from the original glass to the mirror. Also have a bltouch, but honestly I just manually level every few weeks and run with that.

Nice! Needed some black PETG asap. Didn't even know I could get it locally in BR. Got a roll of the PLA to try as well.

Gotta use code WATERMELON in the cart to get the price all the way down. Pretty sure it is a blanket 25% off code too, so if you like crafting, go ham.

ETA: yeah, was able to order for instore pickup and already got the email that it's ready.

Doesn't look like people having success with in store stock.

This brings up a good question, is there anywhere in Baton Rouge that has a decent selection of filaments?

yea my petg experience was because i wasnt hot enough i dont think. But that was just the beginning of my under extrusion experience. So lately i have had a lot of issues. so let me explain how it started. so a print will go fine, get the first layer or 2 down. But when it does the infill on the next layers you start to hear the extruder clicking and jumping back. This puts grooves in the filament which causes more and more friction in the bowden tube. and it gets to a point where the filiament either snaps or the extruder just cant push the filament through. so i figured i brought hot end to high and deformed the ptfe tube.

I got a new all metal hot end. I installed it this friday and went to print and was till getting the underextrusion and deforming the filament. I watched CHEPs video about his ender doing something similar and his problem was the plastic lever on his extruder was broken. Well i have the aluminum one. Come to find out the spring on the aluminum one is slightly longer therfore puts more pressure on the filament.

Well today I snipped a little bit off the spring and boom. i printed a perfect 5 layer cross. So i think it was a combination of the deformed bowden tube and the extruder deforming the filament causing too much friction. Anyway, i have the printermods direct drive kit in and im waiting for my EZR extruder to come in and i hope i can put all this under extrusion behind me.

BTW i also got octoprint up and running. And man even though i have ABL, the the bed visualizer is money! I have my bed under 0.2mm difference across the whole bed.

see i have YET to be able to print on the stock magnetic bed. with all my extrusion issues i cant get anything to stick to it. Once i went glass i havent had ANY issues with sticking. Have you tried using hairspray or glue stick?

I might have messed up my glass bed by scratching off the finish. as you see in this print my z scale was off in my eprom. So when i edited that it messed up my z offset. so the next print gouged the bed and i has some hard particles on my nozzle after. i need to redo my z offset this afternoon. But this was my first shot at octolapse.

a lot of issues with this but came out good. the z scale is off by 1/2, oozing during the picture taken making the glob of spaghetti in the corner. Ill need to play with the retraction to fix this.





My EZR cam in today. debating on installing it and printing or going ahead and installing it and the direct drive setup at the same time and say screw this bowden tube nonsense

im itching to start experimenting with petg, but i have to get this extrusion crap figured out. I need to print all my structural bracing in Petg. My bed support arms are already cracked where then clip on to the bed.