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Brulti

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  1. True, thus why I tend to always wipe my glass with the yellow window cleaner from karcher. Even after I cleaned glue from some print with sponge and soap. I know that whatever chemicals they use in the yellow stuff is always the same stuff, won't harm the glass and it doesn't affect the sticking quality of the glass. Been doing that for a year now, never had a problem when I did a proper cleaning.

  2. What product do you use to clean the glass?

     

    Best method is a sponge with soap and warm water, alternative method is to use window cleaning products but do not use the ones that are blue in color, they contain some chemicals that prevents adhesion. Use the yellow ones, like what Karcher sells, works like a charm.

     

    Also, glue is mandatory for ABS, but you shouldn't need it with PLA.

  3. Then I think that we can rule out a bad spool of material as the culprit for your troubles. Though, just out of curiosity: do you have a sensor in the dryboxes to measure the level of humidity? And, if you do, what is the average humidity? PVA should be kept below 55%. ABS doesn't reacts much to humidity, if at all.

     

    ABS requires a brim, an enclosure and glue to print well. PLA only requires a clean glass bed and no enclosure. It is possible, if a print came off the glass bed and stuck to the printhead, that it created a back flow, forcing the material back up into the printcore and the whole printhead assembly, resulting in the mess you've experienced.

     

    What do you use to wash the glass bed when it becomes dirty or when you've used glue for a print?

    Did the printers managed to print anything before messing up? Was there a partly finished print sticking to the printheads when you found the mess?

  4. 0.15 mm.

     

    You can also buy some calibration things online. Bought one made of metal, selected it by mistake when buying spools, pretty useful in the end because the edges of the metal won't fold or get indents if you hit it against something by mistake, like the core or anything else, contrary to the paper calibration card.

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  5. I'm currently testing a Solex Hardcore 0.6 as well. Not done yet, but, at least for a 0.3 layer width, you'll want to print slower and hotter with PLA. The standard 200°C and 70mm/s of the generic profile results in underextrusion. I'm currently testing at 220°C and around 50mm/s. Still not that good, maybe 215°C would make the PLA less viscous.

  6. On 7/2/2018 at 7:13 PM, kmanstudios said:

    I would have used a piece of geometry. I did not know that you could do this ? Nice tip!! Thanks ?

     

    The support blocker does create a piece of geometry, a phantom cube, after all...

     

    But that's a very nice tip indeed, I wouldn't have thought about it.

  7. Wow, ok, that's an impressive blob...

     

    Can we have more details: what material were you using? Did it happen with the same material on all your printer? The same spool of material? Same printcores? What settings were you using? What did you try to print? Was there any other signs of troubles with your printers?

     

    Do you keep your materials away from moisture, in a box with some desiccant or something? It is especially important for PLA and PVA, as those, especially PVA can go bad very quickly if left in the open for even a few days, depending on how humid it is where you live.

     

    Did you service the printers recently to make sure there was no problem: cold and hot pulls on the cores to clean them, clean the bowden tubes, etc?

  8. Bon, le mois est passé, et je n'ai pas pu faire beaucoup de tests, entre mes clients et la SNCF qui m'empêche d'aller à mon atelier tous les jours...

     

    Bref, j'ai un peu continué quand même, effectivement, augmenter la température a 220°C a beaucoup aidé. Je continue mes tests pour voir si 215°C ne serait pas plus adapté, et à quelle vitesse imprimer pour les meilleurs résultats. J'utilise ce cube car il s'imprime rapidement et permet de voir si les dimensions sont respectées ainsi que les divers problèmes comme le ringing autour des lettres.

     

    Je posterais quelques photos et mes réglages quand j'aurais trouvé ceux qui me conviennent.

     

    Avec la buse 0.6, je pense me limiter aux réglages pour du layer à 0.2, 0.3 et 0.4. Pour du 0.1, j'ai mes buses AA 0.4.

     

    Après je pourrais me mettre à tester le wood et autres filaments spéciaux que j'ai depuis des mois...

     

  9. The Autodesk Inventor plugin is quite annoying: it will show a pop-up everytime I open CURA informing me that I either do not have Autodesk or need to register it.

     

    I know that I do not have Autodesk on this computer, I just want to have the ability to open autodesk files with CURA if need be.

     

    Is there a way to fix that and not have this annoying pop-up every time I open CURA?

  10. Print with Nylon + PVA, definitely.

     

    Nylon is very solid and resilient while still being flexible enough to be handled roughly without breaking. And it is made to be printed with PVA supports.

     

    ABS is more solid than PLA, but it's much less flexible, and it will break much more easily when handled roughly, as kids can often do. Heck, I managed to break some ABS I've printed by twisting them just a bit.

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