Extruder extruding all the time
Hello everyone, so I assembled my MK3 kit and so far every print has been excellent or better(all fails were 100% due to bad heatbed adhesion) BUT
there's a small and rather annoying thing where the extruder is constantly dripping.
During a pre-heat and bed leveling I gotta watch out and remove the tiny strings as they can get at random positions on the bed and disrupt the proper formation of the first layer. Is this normal?
Sometimes it's completely fine by itself and sometimes it messes up the first layer so bad I have to restart the print.
Re: Extruder extruding all the time
Completely normal. Melted plastic always leaks. Be ready with the tweezers and tweak off the drips just before the head moves to start a print.
Re: Extruder extruding all the time
If you think this is too much leaking, you can try and lower the temperature.
I'd recommend printing this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2729076
and lower the temperature while printing to match the towers label.
But make sure to interrupt the printing when its starts to clog or quality gets too worse.
This will give you a good indicator, what temperature your filament is printed best. and what the lowest value is.
Re: Extruder extruding all the time
Completely normal. Melted plastic always leaks. Be ready with the tweezers and tweak off the drips just before the head moves to start a print.
Seems like I'm in the normal parameters then, good to know:)
If you think this is too much leaking, you can try and lower the temperature.
I'd recommend printing this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2729076
and lower the temperature while printing to match the towers label.
But make sure to interrupt the printing when its starts to clog or quality gets too worse.
This will give you a good indicator, what temperature your filament is printed best. and what the lowest value is.
Thank you for the tip, will definitely try that one:)