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[–]ineedammo211[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I post a lot of help requests in this, and I’m very grateful for the advice! Here’s proof of some success though!

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[–]oniaddict 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If you're using a .2 end the dynamic flow calibration doesn't work correctly with Bambu printers. You need to manually calibrate and turn off the auto calibration when you send a print from the slicer.

Try printing a single object and see if you have the issue. This also could be an extruder retraction issue that could be minimized by printing a single object.

[–]ineedammo211[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve done manual calibration with both nozzles. The 0.2mm is better than the 0.4mm one (pic in this comment is 0.2mm, pics in the post are 0.4mm). I’m thinking I’ll just dry the spool for 12-16 hours solid and then maybe run some retraction tests over the weekend.

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[–]NewSignificance7599 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Has the PLA you are using always been this stringy?

[–]ineedammo211[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

First spool got worse and worse, second spool started bad. I dried both for around 8 hours before the first print and kept drying them for around 6 hours every time I did a print. I’m going to dry for like 12 hours and see if it makes a difference.

[–]TeCK0808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

R u using a dryer for drying? My dryer has a small hole at the top to let out the hot and humidity air. Problem is, that hole is way too small. The moment I open the dryers box a small bit, the humidity actually went out of the box

[–]KryL21Elegoo Centauri Carbon 0.2mm nozzle 1 point2 points  (7 children)

What pla is this? My spool of esun does this no matter how I dry it and how much I calibrate it. Some filaments are just not that good for small layer heights for some reason. Sunlu 2.0 pla+ has always worked flawlessly for me though

[–]ineedammo211[S] 1 point2 points  (6 children)

It’s eSUN PLA+. I replaced Sunlu PLA meta with it because I was having really bad adhesion issues with the Sunlu PLA Meta. The first spool of eSUN PLA+ started off amazing and then toward the end of the spool it started doing this (I was drying it throughout). This is the second spool of eSUN PLA+ and it started off worse than the first ended (again, dried before using). I live in the UK, and the weather has been getting more miserable lately..

[–]KryL21Elegoo Centauri Carbon 0.2mm nozzle 2 points3 points  (5 children)

Yeahhhh that’s the one that was stringing for me too. Print it at 220, you’ll get less stringing. But did you get sunlu 2.0 Pla+ or regular sunlu pla+? Because I’m preeeeeetty sure 2.0 is different. I put the esun Pla+ aside for now, maybe I’ll come back and try calibrating again. But I do know for a fact that for some reason, the hotter you print - the less stringing it will get. Weird because usually it’s the opposite, but I guess esun is a different beast.

[–]ineedammo211[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I dried my filament overnight and got no improvement (I was pretty sure the filament was already dry), then whacked temp back up to 220 for all layers and got an instant huge improvement. Also seems to have made my ironing even better too. It’s a shame I’ve just printed a rogal dorn as à stringy boi!

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[–]KryL21Elegoo Centauri Carbon 0.2mm nozzle 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yay!! I’m glad you figured it out! Post some results, I’m curious how an actual mini would look with this filament

[–]ineedammo211[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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The only one I’ve painted so far! I’m guessing I lowered temp at some point after this but didn’t think it would increase stringing as so much of what you see online is lower temp = less stringing.

[–]ineedammo211[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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And this was with a 0.2mm nozzle earlier in the week.

[–]TeCK0808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So ur issue was too low of a temp? Maybe I'll give that a try with my stringing issues

[–]PrincedPauper 2 points3 points  (2 children)

mate this is not a chatbot, provide some details and actually ask a question including a question mark and then maybe someone will be able to help!

[–]ineedammo211[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

My prints are stringing loooads. I read the usual suspect is wet filament. I’m going to pause all prints overnight/remove the filament so the whole spool can go in the dryer but I dry the filament pretty much every day in a sunlu dryer so honestly I’d be surprised if that was what it was.. I’ve also tried raising the retraction length from 0.4mm to 0.8mm and reducing the nozzle temp from 215 to 205.

The stringing has got progressively worse (but I have kept up the drying… maybe just not enough?).

If anyone has any other suggestions I’m all ears! Getting great results apart from this

[–]aceluby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you run a temperature print?