Not getting smooth top in calibration square

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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by sthone » Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:01 pm

Whens the last time you cleaned the teeth on your extruder gear?

If you have the newer gear with the smaller teeth I find it needs to be cleaned quite often or it will give inconstant feeding of the filament.

Of course it could just be a nozzle clog too.
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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by scampa123 » Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:12 pm

So do you simply take it apart? I haven't removed it.

I did just run allot of filament cleaner through the nozzle and am about to print again to see if that helps.

Thanks

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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by scampa123 » Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:22 pm

The cleaning filament didn't help...the issue with the dots is that they do not stick an then get pulled up....

I'll try the filament drive next..

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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by scampa123 » Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:41 pm

I checked the filament drive and that was clean.

I'm thinking it's still the settings...not sure what to tweak...

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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by scampa123 » Thu Sep 22, 2016 4:56 pm

I had an old profile and that seems to be working better...extrusion multiplier was at .85 and the filament diameter is 1.74....This seems to be working at the moment so hopefully ill get a clean print...

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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by Jules » Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:26 pm

Were you calibrating the height of the calibration square as well as the width of the walls? (Might be too large a gap, the thread isn't being squished enough.)


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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by scampa123 » Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:30 pm

Well I started with the width calibration originally, then did the height....but was getting the odd results. As it turns out my old settings seem to work. So I'm not sure if it was a ghost in the machine or something...Nothing had changed in the setup...but since this all happened I cleaned the nozzle and the filament drive so maybe there was something amiss with those...

Regardless I'm getting a clean print now...I'll post a pic...

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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by scampa123 » Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:32 pm

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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by Jules » Thu Sep 22, 2016 6:39 pm

Yeah that looks good! :D

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Re: Not getting smooth top in calibration square

Post by scampa123 » Thu Sep 22, 2016 6:54 pm

Here is the finished plate...notice the top is still not overly smooth

Does the Top Solid Layers affect this? Right now it's set at 3

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