First decent print.

After 3 weeks I finally got what I regard as a great print. Took a long time and lots of advice. Today I decided re-calibrate everything, check mechanics. Replace throat. Ease path of filament to extruder. Increase extrusion rate by a small amount. Reduce printing speeds all by about 15 percent from nominal in Slic3r. Drop temperatures, using PLA, extruder now at 200 and bed at 60. The biggest problem I found had nothing to do with the electronics, extruder etc, the alignment of the guide rods on the bed was out. All of this took about 6 hours doing 1 step at a time, and a few coffee breaks to cogitate.

Congrats! Great feeling, eh?

Welcome to the forum

Glad to here that you're printing well! It's very rewarding when you dial in your printer isn't it?

Any projects lined up?


Cheers,
www.3dexfilament.co.uk

Stuff for my wife's interests at the moment, model railways and doll's house related items. I've started on a laser scanner. Been held up by the printing issues. Electronics is done.