I Need help choosing between Tevo Tornado and the TronXY X5SA

[curious aardvark]

when you heat up filament it expands.
So, when heating up the extruder you will almost always get some filament coming out.
All you do is wait till the printer starts to print and remove it.

[David72]

Thx, that worked. 100_4352.jpg100_4355.jpg

[David72]

Now my problem is(I think) that my nozzle is too high(pictures above) . I'm having trouble setting the hight of the autoleveling probe relative to the nozzle. My first tries adjusting the probe made my hotend dig into my printing surface. When I lower the probe it becomes lower than my hotend, it then sweeps up whatever I'm printing.

[David72]

when you heat up filament it expands.
So, when heating up the extruder you will almost always get some filament coming out.
All you do is wait till the printer starts to print and remove it.

I have dumb question, with what do you remove it? I used a small screwdriver and smeared the PLA all over the hotend...

[mjf55]

I have dumb question, with what do you remove it? I used a small screwdriver and smeared the PLA all over the hotend...

What I do is just before I hit the print button, when the printer is at teemperature, i extrude some filament. Then I hit the print button. As the print head is moving into position, I grab the cooled off filament with my fingers. Easy Peazy.

[David72]

wow, thx. I have found that a skirt or brim really helps.

[David72]

What I do is just before I hit the print button, when the printer is at teemperature, i extrude some filament. Then I hit the print button. As the print head is moving into position, I grab the cooled off filament with my fingers. Easy Peazy.

Yeah, but my fingers(hands) don't fit between the hotend and bed. Until I figure something out I just print or skirt, that gets rid of the excess filament. I tried with a cute tip...that was a mistake lol