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Thanks, It has the nozzle it came with 0.4 I was unaware you could chop/change nozzles around (still very much a noob to all this) I'll look into it.

This is the Tutorial I was referring to,...

I believe I'm getting some overextrusion I've seen a tutorial where the guy sets the printer to feed a 100mm length of filament and then measures how much actually passed through the extruder.
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Well as we say in the UK 'It's doin me ead in' :(

I bought a borosilicate glass plate, no better, probably worse than blue painters tape..

Edit: ton of waffling stuff removed........

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Thanks Bobby that's very useful, I was trying Slic3r yesterday and getting some acceptable results without needing rafts so this may be the better option.

@Eagleseven I'm still using the blue tape...

I haven't found an option, just using it as it was bundled with the printer.

Having a look at Slic3r at the moment it seems more flexible than Makerware

When printing with rafts I'm having trouble separating the piece.

The raft tears pieces out of the print of or leaves parts of itself permanently attached as though it is a part of the print.
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