Hi all,

I took a bit of a punt and bought a £160 3d printer kit from Ebay. It is a Prusa i3 according to the ad. I've put it together and calibrated it and tried to print stuff.

I've been using Pronterface/Slic3r and Cura but am yet to have decent results. It doesn't seem to extrude enough filament. Now I did a test when I took the extruder off of the hot end cut the filament, and told pronterface to extrude 40mm, when i measured it had extruded 45mm. I was getting awful results where it seemed liek just not enough plastic was being laid down after much trial and Error I turn the extruded multiplier on the software ( I think this was on cura) up to £150%. and got my 'best' print.






I cancelled it halfway through as the head was about 10mm above the print and not extruding anything, it also appears to have missed the top of the legs. I can't remember the exact model I used but it should have looked something like this.

My Question is what's wrong? it appears to not be extruding enough but when checked it is extruding too much and turned up 50% I still do not get enough out.

Here is my printer,

Please ignore the messy wires this was before I got my cable management kit