Stringing test fail
My stringing test (you know the one with the two cylinders) it had a lot of stringing and i don't know how to fix it. I tried to change the retraction speed and it did not help.
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What filament material you are printing and at which temperature?
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Inland pla + at 225 c for nozzle and 75 c for bildplate. It's brand new
Have you tried drying the filament?
Cheerio,
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Yes i have
225 is rather hot for PLA. Prusa defaults are 210, also hot, many PLA's will print OK below 190 degrees. Try dropping the temperature by stages and observe the results.
Cheerio,
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Ok but it's pla +
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I went down to 206 for nozzle
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I went down to 206 for nozzle. It did not help at all
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Can you please post an image?
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This is the 206
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Well, this picture shows more the wall behind your stringing test sample 😉
How exactly you have dried the filament? I would recommend put the spool in the oven at 60° for at least 6 hours. Open the door of the oven from time to time that the moisture can escape.
Then do a test print with the Prusament PLA profile in PrusaSlicer.
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60 c or 60 f
I'm going to go with 60 c
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My oven doesn't go that low
76 is the lowest it can go
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Sorry for being unprecise: I meant 60°C (which is 140°F). If 76°C is probably to hot and there is a risk that the filament on the spool will melt together. Another alternative is using a fruit dehydrator or a filament drybox (i'm using the one from esun)
By and large food dehydrators are better than filament dryboxes for the actual drying stage.
I use:
I didn't do much research - just picked one that used up the remaining credit on a gift-card.
You can either snip out the bottom of a couple of trays to make room for a filament roll or do what I did and print a tall spacer. A translucent PETG spacer has worked OK for me so far...
Spacer files:
dryerinsert for Mini, print 3 and glue together
dryerinsert1 for i3, print 2 and glue together
Cheerio,
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By and large food dehydrators are better than filament dryboxes for the actual drying stage.
Completely agree! The dry box is taking care that the filament is not getting wet during the print, but really to dry a wet filament in a dry box may takes quiet a long time...
Another side note: Also take care to store your filament in a closed zip bag and put some silika-gel inside. I use some vaccum zip bags. A dry filament is definitive key to achieve good results although PLA is less hygroscopic like other materials (TPU, Nylon, PETG...)
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Ok thanks for the advice.