Very long time ABS printing
Hi,
Need your advices and comments.
I've wrongly set "infill every layers" on a huge skull model... so i foresee days and days of job (now it is at 12% = 27 hours 😯 ).
It is printing a whole single solid and i do not mind about the consumption of the ABS filament but i wonder if maybe the printer may suffer under such continuative work. Probably the PTFE pipe? Definitely it is a heavy test...
Please don't take me the piss 😆 .
Thank you,
Paolo
Re: Very long time ABS printing
Hi Paolo
Theoretically, there should be no problems. However, you may want to drop the temperature a tad if you are at the upper end for ABS.
If you are printing at 230 to 240 it should be OK, anything above that and I think I would be tempted to lower it 5 degrees.
Is your printer powered by a UPS? If not, then check the supply company for any planned power outages over the next few days.
And I can honestly say that this is the first time anyone on the forums has admitted to printing with 100% infill... You can probably get away with only 5%.
Peter
Please note: I do not have any affiliation with Prusa Research. Any advices given are offered in good faith. It is your responsibility to ensure that by following my advice you do not suffer or cause injury, damage…
Re: Very long time ABS printing
Hi Peter,
No UPS device and i cross my fingers the Electric Co. does not fail...
I'm printing at 255° (standard temperature given by Slic3r for ABS) 😳
So, i have to adapt to lower temperature... gradually?
Thank you for the support,
Paolo
Re: Very long time ABS printing
Hi Paolo
I have some black ABS from Prusa Research. The printing temperature range as stated on the box label is 200 to 230 degrees.
E3D have advised me that in order to get maximum print speeds (11.5mm^3/sec), they recommend a temperature of 240 degrees for ABS.
As I run my printer quite fast (90 to 120 mm/sec @ 0.2mm layer height), I tend to use 230 to 240 degrees with the PR filament.
I would therefore suggest that you reduce the temperature (gradually) to 245 degrees maximum - maybe 2 degrees every 4 minutes. Keep an eye on the print to ensure is feeds OK whilst reducing the temp. The problem may be that you get a slightly different finish, but acetone would cure that.
The first weekend after I took delivery of my first printer, I was confident enough to do a big print. After 14 hours, we had a power cut. The next day, I connected the printer via a good server UPS...
Peter
Please note: I do not have any affiliation with Prusa Research. Any advices given are offered in good faith. It is your responsibility to ensure that by following my advice you do not suffer or cause injury, damage…
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