Using Colorfabb PA-CF?
Has anybody had any luck with Colorfabb PA-CF? Theoretically it should print well on a mk3 with just a nozzle change to hardened steel but every time I try I end up with a nozzle clog in the 2nd or 3rd layer. Sometimes not even the 1st layer finishes. I have tried both 0.4 and 0,6 nozzles and adjusted the gears from loose to tight to medium but nothing seems to fix it. Seem at 260C, 270 or 280C. I have tried leaving a slightly bigger gap for first layer (no differerence), slowing down and speeding up - none of this had any impact, it still stopped extruding towards the end of 1st layer or somewhere into the 2nd. Fan off or fan on made no different either.
Strangely the filament DID print on a CR10 with a clone Titan extruder - but I would really prefer to print on the Prusa MK3 for its superior attention to detail.
Re: Using Colorfabb PA-CF?
Hi PA-CF prints fine on the mk3. Bigger and ware resistant nozzle ist recommendet. Wenn Had no Problems at work we printed with the taulman Nylon profil
Re: Using Colorfabb PA-CF?
Thanks - unfortunately almost all of my MK3 prints failed on this filament - I did manage a few on a slightly modified CR10-mini though. It made a nice extruder idler. I had modified the CF-XT profile in Slic3r, but little joy. It also scratched me PEI sheet slightly. I might give it another go with glue stick to protect the sheet and the Taulman profile. Thanks for the reply.
Re: Using Colorfabb PA-CF?
Anybody had success with printing this material? I tried a number of times with all kinds of settings, but in all cases I ended up with clogging (clicking extruder). If you were successful, please share settings...
Thanks!
It works - finally!
To revive this very old thread in fairness to Colorfabb, some months ago Prusa released a prusaslicer profile for a similar filament, Fibrethree F3 PA-CF Pro, and I wondered, could I use this as a base to print this spool, which had been gathering dust on a shelf. So I modified the bed temperature down to 50C, the nozzle to 280C, dried the filament overnight in an oven, changed to a hardened steel nozzle, and.....it worked!
So the answer is - yes, it will work, but needs a very particular profile, which someone has finally kindly done for a similar material.
Has anybody had any luck with Colorfabb PA-CF? Theoretically it should print well on a mk3 with just a nozzle change to hardened steel but every time I try I end up with a nozzle clog in the 2nd or 3rd layer. Sometimes not even the 1st layer finishes. I have tried both 0.4 and 0,6 nozzles and adjusted the gears from loose to tight to medium but nothing seems to fix it. Seem at 260C, 270 or 280C. I have tried leaving a slightly bigger gap for first layer (no differerence), slowing down and speeding up - none of this had any impact, it still stopped extruding towards the end of 1st layer or somewhere into the 2nd. Fan off or fan on made no different either.
Strangely the filament DID print on a CR10 with a clone Titan extruder - but I would really prefer to print on the Prusa MK3 for its superior attention to detail.