125 - Took Forever But Here It is!

stoney7713 · Nov 29, 2023

tbrown said:
WHY??????

Your cat gets ahold of it?

tbrown · Nov 29, 2023

My cat lives under the sink...

stoney7713 · Nov 29, 2023

tbrown said:
My cat lives under the sink...

Ohhhhhhhh

stoney7713 · Nov 29, 2023

tbrown said:
WHY??????

Did it come loose again?

tbrown · Nov 30, 2023

And then I print Benchy (back to the default settings?) and it appears to be good to go so far. I found a website that has Cura settings for the Neo (smaller version of the Max Neo) so I copied those settings in for now (and left the suggestions you guys gave). I'll calibrate retraction tomorrow and then print a retraction tower. We'll get this eventually!

tbrown · Nov 30, 2023

stoney7713 said:
Did it come loose again?

Yes.

Mschmidt · Nov 30, 2023

tbrown said:
I forgot to mention, I checked the mail and my Reef Breeders Pico light arrived.

Nice! I should order mine...

tbrown said:
It's in an enclosure and I have silica gel packs in there with it so I dunno. I have an Inkbird humidity sensor I could throw in there to at least tell me the humidity...

Is it at all brittle? Good thinking @stoney7713. The white mine came with cracked to a million pieces and went straight to the trash.

Stang67 · Nov 30, 2023

tbrown said:
WHY??????

Fish Styx · Nov 30, 2023

Stang67 said:

tbrown · Nov 30, 2023

Mschmidt said:
Nice! I should order mine...

Is it at all brittle? Good thinking @stoney7713. The white mine came with cracked to a million pieces and went straight to the trash.

Not brittle, not even really stringy, just doesn't want to adhere to the glass. Benchy printed perfect last night at 200 and 60 on 2.92 Z-axis offset. I slowed the initial layer speed down some, adjusted the extruder speed some, raised the bed to 55 and 200 for the hotend, then drop to 190 at layer 3.

We'll see I guess...

The brim looks really clean...

rmorris_14 · Nov 30, 2023

tbrown said:
Not brittle, not even really stringy, just doesn't want to adhere to the glass. Benchy printed perfect last night at 200 and 60 on 2.92 Z-axis offset. I slowed the initial layer speed down some, adjusted the extruder speed some, raised the bed to 55 and 200 for the hotend, then drop to 190 at layer 3.

We'll see I guess...

The brim looks really clean...

:::crossing all fingers and toes:::

Projects with Sam · Nov 30, 2023

stoney7713 said:
Definitely try lowering the bed temp to 50 also the first layer you can print at 210-220 and other layers at a lower temp, 200, 190, whatever.

Raising the temp on the first layer can cause better adhesion. Almost all my prints have a higher first layer temp.

Once you get it figured out you'll look back and think how easy it should have been.

I tried to eleiminate all the special casses from my profiles and just do strainght prints. if they dont stick i out them on glass with aquanet. otherwise its all on PEI springsteel.

stoney7713 · Nov 30, 2023

Projects with Sam said:
I tried to eleiminate all the special casses from my profiles and just do strainght prints. if they dont stick i out them on glass with aquanet. otherwise its all on PEI springsteel.

I have only used PEI spring steel, I like the pc coated spring steel that came with it because things really really stuck, but too well, then I gouged it. I've been through a few PEI sheets though.

I have no problems with PETG sticking, just PLA.

tbrown · Nov 30, 2023

stoney7713 said:
I have only used PEI spring steel, I like the pc coated spring steel that came with it because things really really stuck, but too well, then I gouged it. I've been through a few PEI sheets though.

I have no problems with PETG sticking, just PLA.

PLA sticking is my issue. I'm considering getting a vent fan and running it out the window for PETG prints. My wife was concerned with the fumes from PETG so we didn't order any yet.

tbrown · Nov 30, 2023

Projects with Sam said:
I tried to eleiminate all the special casses from my profiles and just do strainght prints. if they dont stick i out them on glass with aquanet. otherwise its all on PEI springsteel.

So I should get Springsteel?