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sean.j6
(@sean-j6)
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Seriously heavy overextrusion

I've had my MK3 kit for about a month now and had very little problems with it. 2 days ago, however, my PC crashed, deleting all my presets for S3D. At the same time, I seem to be running into a lot of problems with the MK3.
With prusa PLA on .1mm detail, 215/60 and standard settings from Josef's .fff, I run into problems I've never seen before (also not on my other printer, CR10).
It starts with the pressure line right after bed levelling; as it's laying down the last 3cm, I hear the bondtech gears violently clicking/twitching and the line of filament turns into a flew blobs. Never had this before, it also does this on gcode I sliced a week ago.

Then, the first layer goes down pretty uneventful. I've had some problems with getting prints to stick the last two days but it feels that the live z I got now works pretty OK. Once the first layer is done, the real problems start.

A few times every layer I hear the gears slip/click. The print looks terrible, the infill looks 3x as thick as it should/used to. I can see the whole extruder assembly vibrate and bounce over the rough surface of the print.
After aborting, the bottom layer looks fine but I can see on the side of the print there are a lot of zits/artifacts.
Anyone any idea what is suddenly going on?

I haven't done anything to the printer, except upgrading the firmware to 3.2RC and back to 3.1.3 after I didn't get the first layer to stick on the RC build either. It's not the filament, it does this with all rolls and they are stored dry.
Any ideas are appreciated!

Posted : 29/04/2018 3:32 am
Joe Prints
(@joe-prints)
Estimable Member
Re: Seriously heavy overextrusion

I have not tried the S3D profile, but in Slic3r PE (1.39.1) it has this in the start gcode-
M221 S{if layer_height==0.05}100{else}95{endif} which sets the flow rate to 95%

Anything can be made better
https://www.myminifactory.com/users/Joe%20Prints

Posted : 29/04/2018 5:10 pm
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