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Just as an update to this, more or less for posterity, I did follow what JamesK and others had said about 1.75mm filament not being properly supported in my Wade's extruder. I ended up buying an E3D hotend specifically for 1.75mm filament, as well as some PTFE tubing to run through my extruder in order to properly ensure that my filament would be supported, and low and behold I'm now able to prin
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mpmumau
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JamesK, I hear you. Unfortunately I have no practical way of doing that that I am aware of; I have a Greg's Wade direct drive extruder, so there's no real adjusting I can do to make the distance between the gear and the throat of my hotend smaller. It just is what it is. Other than printing a new type of extruder I don't believe there's any other way.
It's just the one material I'm having troubl
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mpmumau
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Thanks to all for the responses! I think I'm getting the idea here, especially with JamesK's response. If I'm following what you guys are saying, basically because the filament is too thin (1.75mm is correct) and my nozzle is capable of holding 3mm filament, the extruder gear is pushing, but the remaining bit of the filament doesn't have the force it needs to actually extrude? I typically print A
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mpmumau
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I've been having an awful time getting PETG to print properly in my Mendelmax 1.5.
It seems like the hotend is getting too "full" with filament, causing the filament strand to crimp up after the hobbed bolt in my extruder.
I keep getting the same, consistent type of jam, as exemplified in the attached screenshots of atomic pulls.
I've tried a variety of settings at this point, including slowi
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mpmumau
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Printing
That very well may have been, dc42. Thanks for the heads up. If I just replace the power supply, do you think it will be OK? I'll do a really solid inspection of everything else to be sure, but just trying to make sure I don't do anything too dangerous.
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mpmumau
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Safety & Best Practices
Hi all! Long time Mendelmax user here. Having my first major problem in several years (which is at least some good news!)
Yesterday, I was attempting a few prints to recalibrate (been a few months since the last time I used the printer) and things were going well. I started smelling a faint electronic burning smell, however, and stopped printing to examine.
I couldn't see any obvious issues, s
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mpmumau
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Safety & Best Practices
Hello everyone. I built a MendelMax a few weeks ago, and I've more or less been getting successful prints for a while (took a while to get it tuned at least to the point where it is), but I've been getting a weird problem with prints lately, and I'm not sure what I've done to cause it. I also haven't been successful at solving it, so I thought I'd pray to the RepRap gods on this forum to see if y
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Reprappers