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james.p27
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Cannot get rid of stringing

I've been printing custom keycaps recently and noticed a fair bit of stringing on some of them, So i started to fiddle with retraction settings, temps, acceleration and speed in Slic3r PE.

  • Retraction distance : from 0.6mm to 1.5mm
    Retraction speed : 30mm/s to 100mm/s
    Temp towers to find best temp for each filament : 195 to 210
    Acceleration from 500mm/s to 5000mm/s
    spped from 40mm/s to 5mm/s
  • Nothing I did would fix the stringing on the stringing tests, I grabbed a brand new box of amz3d filament and checked to see if it could be my filament is wet but its doing the same thing.

    I'm desperate at this point to sort it out. attached picture shows a handful of the tests I've done at varying settings (printer was assembled by prusa rather than me).

    Send help

    Posted : 17/09/2018 11:36 pm
    toaf
     toaf
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    Re: Cannot get rid of stringing

    try 190 temp. it couldn't hurt to try.

    I have a Prusa,therefore I research.

    Posted : 18/09/2018 4:11 am
    james.p27
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    Topic starter answered:
    Re: Cannot get rid of stringing

    Still no difference :/

    Posted : 18/09/2018 11:03 am
    bobstro
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    Re: Cannot get rid of stringing


    [...] I'm desperate at this point to sort it out. attached picture shows a handful of the tests I've done at varying settings (printer was assembled by prusa rather than me).

    MatterHackers and Simplify 3D have nice print troubleshooting guides. I suggest reading through those to start with. I have some mild stringing issues myself, and am slowly working through the issue. Lower temps and faster non-print move speeds have helped. What slicer and settings are you using?

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    Posted : 18/09/2018 7:36 pm
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