Does room temperature affect PLA printing? November 16, 2015 04:37PM |
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Re: Does room temperature affect PLA printing? November 17, 2015 03:47AM |
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Re: Does room temperature affect PLA printing? November 22, 2015 01:05PM |
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Thanks! I'll try to add some adhesive as well... Glue stick seem to work great for ABS. Sometimes ABS sticks to bare Kapton tape, sometimes it doesn't, but when I added Elmer's glue stick on top of Kapton, it got super strong, I have real hard time prying part away form it when it's done Haven't tried PLA in this setup yet, hopefully it will overcome warm temperature and will stick.Quote
o_lampe
When I printed PLA on glass, I had the same problem. I had to try it two or three times in the morning but then it worked like a charm all day long.
Maybe we just have to let the temp sink into the bed and printhead?
I started using lemon juice to degrease and sugarcoat the glass and it helped a lot.
I then switched to blue painters tape and the problems were gone.
-Olaf
Re: Does room temperature affect PLA printing? November 23, 2015 05:11AM |
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Bratan
I've been printing with PLA on heated bed covered by Kapton tape. It was printing great yesterday, when it was pretty chilly in my room (under 65F). Today it's 70F I can't get damn thing to print single thing without head dragging away first layer, it just doesn't stick... I re-leveled bed, using same settings as yesterday, nothing. Switched to ABS and it works fine.
Does room temperature really makes such a huge difference? What can I do to compensate? Decrease bed temp or extruder?
I'm printing PLA with Slic3r:
Extruder: 200/195
Bed: 65/60
No adhesive on the bed. No bed cooling fan.
Re: Does room temperature affect PLA printing? November 26, 2015 09:36AM |
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