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07-23-2014, 02:47 AM #16
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Well, I had an interesting evening last night. First I stumbled upon this post (http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...inter-Extruder), where the video describes exactly the symptoms I was having with my prints. So I immediately decided to calibrate my extruder using that video and gmay3's post a reference.
I quickly found out that my extruder was a bit uderextruding (94mm instead of 100mm requested), and I used LCD menu to adjust E-steps. I decided to use the same G-code I printed before – a 24mm 20% infill cube. The result, well, dreadful.
Original settings (mesh at the top, not watertight, but very neat print otherwise):
IMG_8008.jpg
After calibration (a mess all around):
IMG_8011.jpg
I then reuploaded firmware using link provided in MakerFarm guide (BTW, should I try vanilla Marlin firmware, will it make any difference?), enabled EEPROM access just in case. Then I decided to try printing 20mm 100% infill cube, as per gmay3's post. I used adjusted E-steps, which I saved to EEPROP and I also set Extruder Multiplier in Slic3r to 1.1 just to see what will be the result.
Here's the result:
IMG_8013.jpgIMG_8015.jpg
I've tried two times, and both times the print started bending around corners, and then it lost adhesion (the first time this happened for me). At this point I gave up.
Looks like something is definitely off with extruder, since even Extruder Multiplier doesn't force it to extrude more material. I'm not really sure what to try now.
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