3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
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I'm still messing with the printer and after a lot of struggling it went from printing horrible looking to printing spaghetti back to printing something that looks somewhat melty. The hotend itself is still stock, but i just found out i don't have a way to connect the printer to my pc.
After all this time it seems like the printer jumbled a lot of settings for no apparent reason, including something that controls the temperature. I printed a temp tower and the screen showed the temp actually changed but the result is identical for each temp.
Temp tower can look like that if filament can tolerate huge temp range, like a lot of good pla. You can just pick some temp in the middle of manufacturers recomendation. I actually print single wall hollow cube as tower and looking for best surface and strength by sepparating it with fingers. I do the same for flow, but also measurimg wall thickness.
Stock hotend is not best, but probably not limiting you unless you are trying to print rly fast. As long as it doesnt leak or clog and if thermistor and heater are seated properly and fan is spinning you shouldnt need an upgrade.
You can connect printer with usbA to usbB cable i guess. But your issues are diferent now, its best to make a post with pictures this time. Its too much guessing like this
Yeah it's nearly impossible without any visible cues, i still haven't been able to upload photo's yet. Not even ones as small as 900kb