RFrancis

I have an old Ultimaker 2 which hasn't seen any use for a couple of years. I've now brought it back into use because I'm selling it. I'm having problems with under-extrusion for the first couple of layers. After that it seems to print well. I attach an example of three separate test prints, where we've played with various settings. (We is me and the buyer) The filament is Formfutura PLA, bought in 2015, with the printer! I dried it on the build plate for about 8 hours. The printer has an Olson block, and for these tests it had a previously unused 0.6mm nozzle. We cleaned the feeder and slightly increased the tension (it was at the lowest setting) and replaced the PTFE coupler. Those actions were in-between these tests and clearly that didn't make much difference. The buyer is going to buy some new filament and see if that is the solution. Other than that I'm at my sits end to figure out what's wrong. Any ideas? Thanks, Richard

I am selling my old Ultimaker 2 (almost giving it away). I haven't used it in ages since I bought an S5 bundle a few years back. It's new owner-to-be was here this afternoon and I was showing him how to use it. I ran into a problem with Cura when I tried to add a new printer (the Ultimaker 2) as it's not connected to the network. I assume the current Cura can't be used to prepare jobs for it. That is the latest version of Cura which can be used to prepare jobs for the Ultimaker 2? Thanks, Richard

By the way, when you say salt water, do you mean a similar concentration to seawater (3.4%) or much more concentrated, which is called brine?

Thanks for the tip. I'll give this a try and report back.

Thanks for the response. I have used both Magigoo and the glue stick and get the same over-adhesion. I started with the Magigoo and then tried the glue stick hoping that it would at least be water soluble. After leaving the buildplate with print standing in a large tub of water for several hours I was able to force a sharp blade under it and after working all around was eventually able to dislodge most of it. In another case applying mechanical force to the model resulted in the model cleanly separating from the breakaway (as it should) but I was still left with the breakaway on the buildplate.

I recently got a spool of Breakaway material. Every time I've used it I found it extremely difficult to remove the print. I mean difficult to the point that I sometimes thought the only option was to break the buildplate. Even a simple print like printcore calibration, with only single lines on breakaway on the buildplate (and PLA in the other printcore), and no glue or anything else, resulted in the PLA peeling away easily, while the Breakaway needed a sharp knife to loosen it, then an abrasive sponge to remove the residual from the buildplate. How can I reduce its adhesion? By the way, I'm using the S5 bundle and all standard profiles. thanks, Richard

Hi Szahari, no I didn't open a support ticket -- I looked for somewhere on the website to do that since the machine is rather new: end-April for the S5 and Air Manager, end-June for the Material Station, and it spent >2 months of that time back at Ultimaker for a trivial repair (4 or 5 LEDs in the strip dead on arrival). But I still can't find where on your site to open a support ticket. Anyway, here are 2 photos: the first shows the filament still in the print cores (it's switched off as I don't want to make it try to extract the material again), and second shows the spools in the material station. The one on the left is tight as it's trying to pull the stuck material. I'll try the solution you suggest. thanks, Richard

Again, thanks for your helpful comments. However, I have a bit of a problem. As the filament is stuck in the print core, and is fixed at the other end too, the Bowden tube won't move (with the filament inside it -- it's what Bowden tubes are for ;-). I can't raise it more than a millimetre from the print core (at which point the end is still inside the housing) and so can't cut the filament. cheers, Richard

Thanks for the tip. I'll try to do it. My first problem though is that the machine very rapidly goes to the error page and I can't access the menus to heat the print cores. There may be a small time window I can exploit though. cheers, Richard

I tried it with a 650W UPS that I had available. On the first print I tried with CPE+ (high temperature) the UPS went into overload and shut down. It clearly needs more than a 650W UPS. cheers, Richard

Forgot to mention it's the S5 Pro Bundle, but that's probably obvious, and also in the tag. cheers, Richard

Firmware version: 6.5.1.0 I made my second print with CPE+ (and breakaway) overnight. This morning the printer has an error ER61. I followed the linked troubleshooting guide, but this doesn't help because the cause is not covered. The material is still in the print core (both of them are actually). The only choice on that screen is to reboot. After several mechanical noises suggesting it's trying again, it returns to the error page. Power-cycling has the same end result. I can't access any other function and the trouble-shooting guide does not cover my case. What can I do? Thanks, Richard

I want to use the S5 bundle via a UPS (we have some micro power cuts here which mess up prints). In order to size a suitable UPS I need to know the power consumption. I can find the consumption of the S5 (600W) on the spec sheet, but not the whole setup with Air Manager and Material Station. So, what is the overall power consumption (average and maximum)? thanks, Richard