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Michael
(@michael-22)
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after 2.5 upgrade, print quality is bad!

So I finally completed the 2.5 upgrade along with the flash upgrade.

When I print now (PLA), the first layers are beautiful, perfect with no skips, bumps, etc. But when the printer gets up to about 5 mm off the bed, the surface quality changes. I printed some test prints with vertical sides and the surface appears to have excess material like there was over-melting or the nozzle height to the previous layer was too low. Is it possible for each layer to be too close to the previous layer? How can I adjust that?

Any other suggestions or test ideas? Thanks for any help or comments.
Michael

Posted : 23/05/2018 1:12 am
digibluh
(@digibluh)
Reputable Member
Re: after 2.5 upgrade, print quality is bad!

just about to flash mine.... so we'll see. However, i had a messed up the heat break so it's swapped out for a new one i had... while i was at it i threw on the steel nozzle and put new gates GT2 belts on X/Y.... so i could of messed something up somewhere along the lines.

pics would help though to see if it's related to the mk3 issue...

Posted : 23/05/2018 2:32 am
Michael
(@michael-22)
Eminent Member
Topic starter answered:
Re: after 2.5 upgrade, print quality is bad!

Here's a pic of the part. It's only about a little over 1cm high but there are two vertical walls. You can just see the corner of second wall in the upper right.

Posted : 24/05/2018 1:39 am
digibluh
(@digibluh)
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Re: after 2.5 upgrade, print quality is bad!

That's ABS/ASA? i've only seen that with ABS but if it's not slicer settings then it's something in the build.

Posted : 27/05/2018 3:22 pm
Michael
(@michael-22)
Eminent Member
Topic starter answered:
Re: after 2.5 upgrade, print quality is bad!

The label on the spool says PLA! I'll try a different spool and see if the results are better...

Posted : 27/05/2018 4:03 pm
Bastian
(@bastian-2)
Trusted Member
Re: after 2.5 upgrade, print quality is bad!

If it's ABS, you would smell this as the print is going on 🙂

Posted : 10/06/2018 6:13 pm
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