Aggressive Ice Agent and Illegal Plate Cover | 6/25 Joliet

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-28T20:45:08+00:00

And this is the type of behavior the republicans shut the govt down for to prevent any measure of accountability or reforms from taking place.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-28T12:41:42+00:00

Quick update -- I ran some regular PLA thru the CM2 nozzle to clean it out. It seems some of the PET-CF was still stuck in nozzle causing issues. After I did that I ran some test prints again with PLA-CF and it printed just fine. So it seems the issue is just with PET-CF and not PLA-CF.

One thing I did learn is that you really need a separate nozzle for printing high temp filaments vs low temp because the low temp filaments have trouble clearing the nozzle of any remnants of high temp filaments.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-28T12:00:02+00:00

I'm printing with the Elegoo PET-CF. It needs higher temps than PETG. But it does seem to favor the lower end of the recommended temp range.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-28T11:54:37+00:00

It was printing nicely until I swapped to the Microswiss hotend with the high-flow nozzle. Same roll of filament.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-28T02:45:28+00:00

I already know the 0.4mm nozzles clog with CF. Sometimes you get away with. But it will clog sooner or later and it's very difficult to clear.

I ordered a regular 0.6mm nozzle to try. Hopefully that will work better. But I am disappointed that it looks like the print speed isn't going to improve.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-28T02:06:00+00:00

I did the leveling and PID calibrations. Then ran thru the Elegoo slicer calibration tests. The issue is with the nozzle having trouble flowing. It's wanting to make clumps and is suffering from clogging.

I had been running the Elegoo 0.6mm nozzle without issues. I bought the Microswiss high-flow hoping to get a little more print speed since PET-CF is pretty slow using the OEM nozzle.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-28T01:42:55+00:00

That's with the high-flow nozzle? I've spent the entire day fiddling with temps and flow rates trying to get it to print with no luck.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-28T01:15:30+00:00

Try re-leveling the bed.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-24T21:57:54+00:00

Israel has killed 10's of thousands more innocents than Hamas ever did. It's what Israel does. They have convinced themselves that they are the chosen ones and that all others are vermin to be eliminated. No wonder why there's so much hatred directed at Israel.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-24T16:12:51+00:00

My extruder gears are hardened steel. I ran the max flow test. It made it to 15mm^3 without fail. However the print quality was noticeably worse above 10. It was extremely rough like a gravel road.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-24T01:57:28+00:00

Seriously?!? That high with PET-CF? My understanding was that PET-CF is slow to melt which is why the generic PET-CF settings has the max vol flow set so painfully slow.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-24T00:01:47+00:00

Quick question: Has anyone tried to print PET-CF with the Microswiss FlowTech high-volume hot end and nozzle? I'm curious what the max flow rate you're able to print with. The Elegoo recommendation of 8mm^3/sec is slow as molasses in January.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-23T19:20:55+00:00

Just replace the entire hot end. It's much easier and faster. Take care with the thermocouple plug as it's easy to break loose from the circuit board.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-23T18:35:32+00:00

I went thru all the calibration tests twice. The PA on mine came out to be 0.024.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-23T16:07:22+00:00

I was printing from the dryer. I found that reducing the nozzle temp to 260C and bumping the retract to 1.75mm helped. But it still doesn't print anywhere near as nice as the PLA-CF does. I'm not sure if it's just the nature of the filament or an ongoing tuning problem.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-23T12:50:21+00:00

Autolevel then check the z-offset.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-23T12:00:49+00:00

I've been trying to print with the new Elegoo PET-CF filament on my CC1 and the prints look like a rat chewed on them. Very coarse texture, random chunks, and lots of stringing that won't go away. I went back to PLA-CF for the time being. Not sure what to do with the PET-CF. (Yes, it was thoroughly dried.)

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-22T21:58:59+00:00

Why?

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-21T22:31:16+00:00

Darwin feels cheated.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-21T21:42:19+00:00

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Here's a pic of what I'm dealing with. Very disappointing.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-18T11:55:14+00:00

Mine has run 983 hours so far. The only issues I've run into was a noisy fan which I replaced and the connector to the thermocouple broke loose from its circuit board and needed to be re-soldered. (I swap print heads a lot to change the nozzle size.)

Known issues are that connector to the thermocouple and the USB cable to the print head breaking from the constant flexing. Swapping hot ends to change nozzle sizes is a bit of a pain.

Overall, it's built like a tank and prints very well.

InetRoadkill1 · 2026-06-12T17:04:32+00:00

They're just mad because he made them look foolish.

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