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How old is your printer?
I would say clogged nozzle, if printed some hundred hours or
very hot (230+) then Teflon spacer.
Clogged nozzle is fixed (usually!) with Atomic Method.
Good luck!
Just replaced the Teflon spacer after having similar issues, and having printed for several hundred hours. It seems that a lot of the problems that I thought were stemming from my high quality ColorFabb Standard White PLA/PHA filament (which didn't make sense) and poor prints can be attributed to the Teflon spacer. Below is a photo of what the spacer looked like when I pulled it out.
Prior to replacing the teflon spacer, my prints were stringy, and in general seemed to look worse and worse. In response I raised the temperatures to 225-230 - which seemed to work for a while. Then I noticed more stringiness, so I thought maybe it was the filament and lowered the speed - which also seemed to work, until it really no longer did. I have printed for hundreds of hours (500+) on my Ultimaker 2.
Hope this info helps!
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How old is your printer?
I would say clogged nozzle, if printed some hundred hours or
very hot (230+) then Teflon spacer.
Clogged nozzle is fixed (usually!) with Atomic Method.
Good luck!
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Just replaced the Teflon spacer after having similar issues, and having printed for several hundred hours. It seems that a lot of the problems that I thought were stemming from my high quality ColorFabb Standard White PLA/PHA filament (which didn't make sense) and poor prints can be attributed to the Teflon spacer. Below is a photo of what the spacer looked like when I pulled it out.
Prior to replacing the teflon spacer, my prints were stringy, and in general seemed to look worse and worse. In response I raised the temperatures to 225-230 - which seemed to work for a while. Then I noticed more stringiness, so I thought maybe it was the filament and lowered the speed - which also seemed to work, until it really no longer did. I have printed for hundreds of hours (500+) on my Ultimaker 2.
Hope this info helps!
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