I've been having some real problems with blockages in the nozzle but I seem to have the printer going again. I think the main culprit is the cheep white PLA. Although it has a superior finish compared with other brands that I have used there does seem to be one drawback. It tends to grind up in the feeder mechanism more than other PLA. I believe it was the dust from the white PLA getting ground up in the feeder that has been causing the blockages. I tried printing Batman 4 times in the white material and each time the print failed due to blockage after about 15-20 hours. After declogging and cleaning a few times I decided to switch to colorfabb blue/grey and try again. This time I printed smaller at 16 hours as I just wanted to get this done. Print came out great and I printed another one strait after with no problems.
Here are some pics. Once I've taken some better pictures I will upload this guy to thingiverse so you guys can all have a go at printing him.
The chin will require a bit of clean up and I just bought a mini rotary tool so I'm looking forward to that.
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Took me forever to do this. And it is still rougher than I would have liked. 3D concept rendering: Finished piece:
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Yep, that's the exact noise I'm talking about. I think it's actually the material rubbing on the black extruder housing, way too much tension caused by the spool holder.
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