I believe you that you may have 1 in 1000 prints come loose , but consider this:
- not all users are knowledgeable. beginners may send things that are not recommended to print. these prints may have much higher tendency to cause problems.
- when I have 1 in 15 coming loose is when working with CPE and nylon.
say you are a school sending beginner-level projects, or a lab working with nylon/CPE/other, so you have 1 in every 50 prints come loose. let's say this severe clogging problem occurs only once out of 3 times the print comes loose. if you send 1 print every day on average, you will have a failure every 6 months on average. this is still not acceptable! now imagine you have a lab with 6 new shiny printers.
You will have , on average, this severe problem every single month! every month an argument with your dealer who'se fault it is, and maybe a charge of $200 or more. if your printer is out of warranty, you are looking at $500-600.
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This really sucks, man. to fix it you need a heat gun. Hopefully it's PLA as if it's a high temp material you are even more screwed. This has happened to many people and they get through it eventua
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Hi @brightorange, thank you for your reply. What is misleading about kman's response? You speak of a clog, and even though you can now consider your printhead as clogged the origin of this probl
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It's not enough to watch the first layer. You have to check that it squished hard. These are photos of 0.3mm thick first layers and how they look with the head starting off at different heights - no
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If you have 1 in 15 parts coming loose, then I would suggest you review your bonding method: there is a lot of room for improvement. Improving your bonding method until it is 99.99% safe will give you a lot more peace of mind; it is definitely worth the effort.
I have maybe 1 in 2000 parts coming loose, even though my models are not always easy to print, and even though I don't particularly care about cleaning the build plate.
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