jimc wrote:are you using the v3 or the v3b hot end and what temp are you running?

How do I tell the difference in hotends? Mine is a brass-colored rectangular prism.

Also I have run at a lot of different temperatures, but most recently around 230 C.

the white plastic is the ptfe liner not the peek but no matter really. the peek insulators are all deformed from heat. your getting them too hot. they should not look like that. the heat is creeping up the insulator and making your drive soft then everything loosens up How do I keep this from happe...

maybe i am not understanding what is going on here. peek is extremely hard. i dont see how some abs or pla filament could damage the peek. instead of buying filament drives why dont you just print new ones. makergear makes the stl files for the printed parts available to everyone on their github. y...

I have been having problems with Makergear's filament drives. After 11 months, my first filament drive became loose. This looseness caused the filament to misfeed directly into the groovemount's PEEK insert, damaging it badly (PEEK is very soft apparently). I ordered a new groovemount and filament d...

I really like this idea. I've spent almost 4 months looking for a stable, reliable brand of PLA.

This head: https://img0.etsystatic.com/042/0/88307 ... 4_li7b.jpg

The biggest part was 30 hours, I think.

My prints are flawless... except for whenever I print the top layers on slanted surfaces. See here: http://imgur.com/a/rERL0#QpUJRO0 and http://imgur.com/1Sb67R1 I use slic3r 1.0.0RC3, pronterface, M2 (of course), and PLA. I can post my slic3r settings if that helps. Nothing seems to fix this, even ...

I am printing very frequently, and I want to make sure I don't cause undue stress to my printer. I make sure to lubricate everything, keep things clean, etc. In the long run, does printing at slower speeds help reduce wear on the machine? Or does the increased time spent printing increase wear? (......