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Printing defect - 9 years ago

Was wondering if you guys could take a look at this and give me an idea where to start to fix it. Print is a 20mm square X 100mm tall, single shell print in PLA. This one is at 200 degrees and a known good extrusion rate. filament is Matterhackers. Printer is a folger 2020 i3 That roughness is found on all 4 sides but is worse on the side nearest the x axis drive motor. Any Ideas?

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

Re: Possible hotend thermister problem? - 9 years ago

Thanks mate. I appreciate the info. I'll probably get one on order in the next day or two. Quotemsaeger QuoteJustAGuy I've been meaning to do the research on that. Can you recommend a good place to get one and some idea of what other parts I'm gonna need? Nows your excuse to get an e3d ☺️ I got the Lite6 from filastruder because I wanted a genuine one and they are an official US seller.

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

Re: Possible hotend thermister problem? - 9 years ago

I've been meaning to do the research on that. Can you recommend a good place to get one and some idea of what other parts I'm gonna need? Nows your excuse to get an e3d ☺️

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

Re: Possible hotend thermister problem? - 9 years ago

That was it. Removed the thermistor from the heat block and cut the clear heatshrink off of it. As soon as I did, one of the wires came out of the insulation near the thermistor end. Going to order one from Ebay simply because I don't want to wait on folger to send it whenever they can. Quotemsaeger QuoteJustAGuy Well, did a little experiment. Started with a room temp printer....had been u

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

Re: Possible hotend thermister problem? - 9 years ago

..."That's the heater failsafe kicking in, probably because your bed is taking too long to come to temp." Well, did a little experiment. Started with a room temp printer....had been unplugged for a couple of hours. Homed all three x,y and z. Turned on the bed via repetier manual control with a starting temp of 22C and a target temp of 60C. Took 1 min, 36 seconds to heat. Left the bed heated

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

Possible hotend thermister problem? - 9 years ago

Hey all. Had my first real malfunction today and am not really sure where to start on troubleshooting. Started a print and went to take the girls to the mall. Came back and found that the printer had stopped shortly after I left. Only about 1.5 layers of the print were done and the nozzle was stuck in the nylon filament that had already been layed down. LCD panel said Error:Mintemp. Hmmm.

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) - 9 years ago

I gotta tell ya Mach. Yer good. That was it. I had already calculated the proper extruder multiplier for my setup (113) but hadn't put it in my new profile yet. Thanks! Sam QuoteMach QuoteJustAGuy What do you see here? Looks like under extrusion due to the extrusion multiplier being to low. Not sure if that is the problem, but considering that the second layer looks like it is having the

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

Re: Folger Tech 2020 i3 Printer Kit (Official Thread) - 9 years ago

Looking for some help troubleshooting my printing. I've attached a photo of the underside of the first 2 layers of a 20mm test cube. This is PLA extruded at 200C and a bed temp of 60 just because I've had trouble getting PLA to stick without heat. Layer Height 0.2 mm First Layer 0.35 mm Perimeters 20 mm/sec solid infill 20 mm/sec. What do you see here?

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

Re: New Guy - 9 years ago

Thanks for the replies. It was the min length.

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

New Guy - 9 years ago

Hey yall. New guy here, located in Colorado Springs CO. Ordered my i3 2020 kit on December 29th, received on Jan 12th and got first print on Jan 14th. I'm actually quite happy with the kit considering the shipping problems in the beginning. The printer is actually starting to turn out some pretty decent prints and the kids have already started sending me links to cases for their phones from thi

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

New guy and question - 9 years ago

Please delete, posted in wrong area.

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants

Question on Z homing during initial setup - 9 years ago

Please delete this post. Newb posted in wrong area. Sorry.

by JustAGuy - Prusa i3 and variants