125 - Took Forever But Here It is!

[stoney7713]

If that's not it let me know I'll look it up.

 

[tbrown]

Found it! It's an extension I had to enable.

 

[Projects with Sam]

Delayed an hour on the tarmac…

 

[tbrown]

My wife walks in and says "That looks so much better!" so I stand up and look and hear a "click" and Benchy is scooting across the bed....

It's definitely a lot closer. Adjusted the Z-axis offset to -2.92. I'm going to go get some super glue and try the temperature tower.

 

[Mschmidt]

If your using the piece of paper for the offset, you want a bit of drag on it. I also preheat the bed and nozzle.

But some feeler gauges work best, I don't have a .1 but use a .102, it's still just a "close enough" and you may have to dial that in too. I usually bump it once or twice .005 closer.

Feeler gauges helped me so much more than paper.

Glue stick works well too, also me glass bed was pex coated. Also, I switched to a spring steel with pex coating. That seemed to do better than the glass. My hypothesis was that the glass was too thick for the bed to heat well. The thermometer said the bed was 60, but the top could have been cooler.

 

[tbrown]

Feeler gauges helped me so much more than paper.

Glue stick works well too, also me glass bed was pex coated. Also, I switched to a spring steel with pex coating. That seemed to do better than the glass. My hypothesis was that the glass was too thick for the bed to heat well. The thermometer said the bed was 60, but the top could have been cooler.

My glass bed is coated on one side, glass on the other.

 

[Fish Styx]

I've been preheating mine.

TWSS

 

[tbrown]

Glue stick works well too, also me glass bed was pex coated. Also, I switched to a spring steel with pex coating. That seemed to do better than the glass. My hypothesis was that the glass was too thick for the bed to heat well. The thermometer said the bed was 60, but the top could have been cooler.

I've been trying to turn it on and set the bed to preheat but maybe I should let it preheat longer.

 

[Mschmidt]

My glass bed is coated on one side, glass on the other.

You using the coated or glass side?

 

[tbrown]

You using the coated or glass side?

Glass for the last 1 that almost finished.

 

[stoney7713]

I've been trying to turn it on and set the bed to preheat but maybe I should let it preheat longer.

You can also set it to preheat before printing in the gcode. But yes, I hit preheat before ever hitting print.

 

[stoney7713]

This became a daily FTS to "get this man a benchy!" Thread

 

[stoney7713]

On previous prints that failed, the boat was the only thing not stuck although it did seem like the ring around the outside was stuck more on the left than the right. I'll have to see how to manually adjust the right side of the bed maybe.

I think I need a different program maybe. Not seeing where I can adjust the heat settings.

Is your nozzle size really .5?

 

[Fish Styx]

Is your nozzle size really .5?

Umm... Sadly, TWSS

 

[tbrown]

Is your nozzle size really .5?

I don't think so. That's the generic Cura settings. I haven't loaded anything in yet except for the Gcode for Benchy. I need to still adjust for my machine.

 

[tbrown]

Ender says 0.4.

Glue stick down, Temperature Tower started.

 

[tbrown]

So far it looks like 220 is too hot, 215 has noticably less stringing but it's still definitely there. Default of 200 may be perfect but we'll see.

 

[tbrown]

I'm thinking 180-185 might be the ticket.

 

[JoJosReef]

These last couple of pages have been HOT!

Ran across this at the Hoover Dam Lodge. Thought about picking one up for you, but then thought that might be in bad taste ;-)

 

[tbrown]

These last couple of pages have been HOT!

Ran across this at the Hoover Dam Lodge. Thought about picking one up for you, but then thought that might be in bad taste ;-)

I got my deer, just no elk. Yellowstone is a ton of fun! @Stang67 , you're still doing your wolf trip?