IT'S WORKING!!! Happiness is........seeing your 3d printer work. Well I guess my extruder is fine. The problem was the filament was backing out of the extruder. This time before a tried to print the xyz cube a made sure the filament was all the way in. I changed a couple of other settings. Slowed the feedrate down and increased the layer height from .2mm to .3mm. The results were: X - 19.2mmby striker12300 - Prusa i3 and variants
Looking at the picture do you think I have an extruder problem? Can the filament still come out of the nozzle if the motor isn't pushing it through? The 1st attempt the nozzle temp was 205 at 100% feed rate. The 2nd one was 215 nozzle temp and 60% feed rate.by striker12300 - Prusa i3 and variants
Hello. My 1st printer. CTC i3 pro b. Like many others my extruder doesn't seem to want to work. Tried printing the xyz cube twice with bad results. The 1st one, on the let in the pic, was a "lets see this thing print" attempt without adjusting anything but the bed level. the 2nd one I sliced in Ultimaker Cura with more specific setting. If I go into the lcd screen under move axis and try the extrby striker12300 - Prusa i3 and variants