3D Printing

Archives for October 2022

Recent purchases of Silk PLA won't stick to bed
Hi, I'm of course printing Mandalorian armor for Halloween, and had some a few rolls of unopened silk PLA to print the helmet and one of the shoulder parts. It worked perfectly. Ran to Microcenter to pick up 8 more rolls, and I can't for the life of me get the new rolls of Silk PLA to stay stuck to the bed. I can happily…
Ender 3 Pro: removing filament purge around print
Is there a way to remove the thin layer of initial purge that surrounds the print before printing? It is so thin that scraping gouges my surface. Various bed temps haven't helped. I'm sure there is a trick out there.
Biqu B13d printer -1mm Y axis shift per layer
Hi there, I just got the Biqu B1 3d printer from my micro-center and Its shifting the Y axis by -1mm per layer, It printed a few flat pieces ok when I tried it out at first, Now with each consecutive layer, the Y axis moves by -1mm. The only adjustments i've made is in the steps for the x AND y axis and not much was even…
Inland PLA
I'm new to 3D printing and everything is going great except for the spool which is tangled within the spool. Every 5 hrs I have to stop printing, pull out a few yards from the spool, detangle and reroll. Why is the roll tangled in the first place? Is this typical of this brand? I don't trust it for big projects or to leave…
Extruder / Hotend clogged up
Hi there so I have a Creality CR-10 Smart 3D printer and I recently swapped the nozzles to the hardened steel ones so today when I went to check on the print I was doing I come down to see that the nozzle of the printer had come off and the Hotend / Extruder had been gunked up with PLA I did buy the printer at micro center…

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