If my print is stringy what can I do

Should I slow down the feed rate and flow rate? I'm useing repetier.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/13/2013 05:14PM by h8losing.

Depends on your definition off stringy. A picture off your print and your basic slicer settings would surely help.

Som general rules:
Make sure extruder is properly calibrated
Find a good but high extruder retraction speed that works reliable
Use retraction
Print the outer shell slowly like 40mm/s
With pla enable cooling and set each layer duration to min 40 seconds to let previos layer get cold and hard

That normally gives alredy good prints and only minor corrections are needed.

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I am useing Repetier. Can you give me examples. I see from top to bottom. Feed rate is at 100. Flow rate is at 100. Then I have Extruder 1 set at, Speed 100 mm/min. These are the settings when I open the program.

100 mm/min is slow. If it is mm/s like slic3r wants it is very fast for a print, as i already described above. Also the stl doesn't help as it is the model you tried to print not a picture of your result or your settings.

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