Help / Advice on bad print!
Hi everyone,
today i had first catastrophic print, i have printed the same piece in "draft" settings twice and no problems, today i went to try in "Standard" quality and left it printing for 5 hours.
Came back to a file layer and a glob of PLA at the nozzle and all around it.. its all solid and dont know what to do..
trying ot figure out on adding pictures here.
RE: Help / Advice on bad print!
RE: Help / Advice on bad print!
Welcome to the club. You've just learned how important bed cleanliness and proper bed cleaning practices are.
Have a search around here for how to deal with "blobs of doom", there are many excellent posts on the topic on what to do to recover from it.
RE: Help / Advice on bad print!
You have to soften that blob.
Invest in a decent heat gun and have at it. As it softens, drag it down. Be extremely careful with the thermistor wires.
If it were me, I would order a spare set now.
Some folks have made a soldering iron work. Messy job however you do it.
Your blob has not actually damaged anything - yet. You have a perfectly good hot end hiding under that mess.
RE: Help / Advice on bad print!
@robert-rmm200
thanks for the reply,
i´ll be ordering replacement items while i try to clean this blob... the thing is firuring out what i need to order..
can the hot end be turn on to soften the blod?
RE: Help / Advice on bad print!
@vintagepc
Thanks, ill search and read upon them blobs of doom, sounds better tan catastrophic 😉
RE: Help / Advice on bad print!
one more thing.. i have being told to use "Hairspray" to help fix/bond the printed Surface to the heated bed… ?!?
RE: Help / Advice on bad print!
one more thing.. i have being told to use "Hairspray" to help fix/bond the printed Surface to the heated bed… ?!?
You paid for an expensive print surface that, when properly maintained, should not need crap like hairspray, glue, or other folklore to work well for standard materials like PLA and PETG. Many of those things are holdovers or habits from other bed materials like glass. (PETG actually needs something like windex as a release agent on the smooth sheet to prevent it sticking too well).
More exotic materials have different requirements, but that's not the norm for most folks.
RE: Help / Advice on bad print!
Turning on your hot end will loosen the blob attachment to the hot end.
It will do nothing to the death grip on your thermistor wires. Pull on it - and your wires will break.
Cutting it with a soldering iron might help - but I still prefer a heat gun, working in slowly from the outside.