So I tried my first ABS print yesterday, the parts look fantastic except that the bottom 4-5mm of them warped several mm off to one side: http://i.imgur.com/6kJliMF.jpg I'm using Makergear black ABS filament printing on kapton tape coated with hairspray. Extruder temp 245 bed temp 110. I'm using rsi...

Ok, they have 5 lb rolls, but wow their prices are even worse than Makergear for PLA...

Does anyone have a source for rolls of PLA larger than 1kg? I'm hoping we can can buy some larger rolls to get some price savings.

We've had our M2 long enough now that we'll soon be at the end of a few filament rolls... which makes me wonder how most people deal with this? Do you just eyeball the amount left to decide when to stop using it, and maybe hold the leftovers for small prints? Or is there some technique to splice tog...

Well, I still don't know what the actual problem was, but I switched back to our original filament guide housing and right now it's working ok. I was able to do the full z bed leveling print and right now it is about 30 minutes into another print. Re temp: So far our pla has been printing well with ...

Alright, I am seriously about to take this thing out and recreate the fax machine smashing scene from office space... I got everything back together, did about 4-5 100mm manual extrudes tweaking the filament tension until it was extruding smoothly with none of the slipping noise. Then I started a pr...

Well I think I finally discovered the real cause of our issues. After having more problems on the day that I made my last post, I disassembled the hotend and cleaned it out with paint stripper. This morning I was reassembling everything, and discovered that our extruder motor mount was broken. Lucky...

I got the stl off of Thingiverse maybe 2 weeks ago? I thought I remembered reading that it should be tighter, though. I can't remember what settings I used when I printer that first housing, but I made two extras more recently that I know were done on very high quality settings. Maybe that first one...

Ok, have another question that is probably related, so I'll piggyback it onto this thread. When I went to check the bed leveling, I noticed that the hotend is slightly loose in the extruder housing. It can rotate around the Z axis and move front to back slightly in the Y axis, probably 1mm of travel...

Is there some reason it would only affect one color of PLA? I'll have to re-check the bed height and leveling when the current print finishes (30 hours!) but I just adjusted the Z height a week ago because I was having that exact problem, and like I said all other colors are printing ok.