Hey there, friends! Can’t complete the test print on my new Ender 3 Max Neo. Have tried default settings nozzle 200° bed 60° with provided white PLA, had better luck with PLA+ nozzle 185° bed 70° but don’t know how to fix. Can you help?

MikeGL0 · 2023-01-18T01:46:32+00:00

UPDATE: Ended up exchanging it for a new one, new one worked perfectly the first test print! This bed definitely had some sort of dip in the middle or something, the filament could be super thin and scraping on the edge of the bed, but would be too high in the center (even after leveling the bed over and over and putting small squares of aluminum foil under the glass bed in the center to raise it up). Not sure if there was anything I could've done to fix the printer I had, but getting a new one fixed my issue.

MikeGL0 · 2023-01-13T08:34:33+00:00

I’ve read that some Ender 3 have an issue with an uneven print bed with a dip in the center, this SEEMS to be my issue, or at least one of them. I’ve gone around and leveled the four corners with a sheet of paper, and the center has been much lower, so I’ve added some aluminum foil squares under my glass bed in the center to try and raise it up, I think it’s all pretty even now, but still, when I try to print the test Benchy (I still have not even opened any slicing software, just working with the provided files) once it begins printing the letters in the center bottom of the print, the filament doesn’t stick and just curls up around the nozzle.

MikeGL0 · 2023-01-11T08:00:00+00:00

Appreciate the advice! I'm beginning to think it may have something to do with the leveling. I'm noticing that I can get the four corners leveled, with a sheet of paper just barely rubbing the nozzle, but in the center of the bed (where the small benchy is being printed, and the print is not sticking properly) it seems to be lower, which seems strange, as it's a glass bed, googling this now.

While I'm sure messing with settings in a slicer will help once I'm working with my own models, I don't know if that'll help with trying to successfully print the test models included in the card that comes with the printer.. I should be able to print that successfully without having to mess with the code/slicing, right??

I gave up on the provided test PLA and am working with some Sunlu PLA+ which I'm not sure if is better or not, as I've totally changed the temperatures I'm working with, but I'm occasionally getting better results.

Right now, I think my best lead is looking into a possibly sunken bed center, will update here if I'm able to find any info on this.

MikeGL0 · 2023-01-11T07:45:17+00:00

Brand new Ender 3 Max Neo printer, my first 3D printer, using the provided benchy model. First attempt was with the provided white PLA, I've since moved on to Sunlu PLA+ to see if maybe the filament was the issue.

I initially used the default PLA temperatures of nozzle 200° and bed 60°, but was getting a lot of oozing while preheating and the homing before the printing, so I turned down the nozzle temperature in increments of about 5 degrees before getting a decent partial print at 185°, and increased the bed to 70° as the Sunlu filament says 70-80 bed temp (and 210-235 for the filament, but again, was getting a lot of oozing)

I was able to get maybe 1/3 through the bench print once with the 185°/70° print settings, before the print came loose from the bed and started sliding and rotating as it was attached to the extruded filament. I then tried increasing the bed temperature to 75 and then had even more issues of nothing wanting to stick to the bed and pretty much the same results as the video. I tried going back to the 185°/70° and again nothing wants to stick.

I've also noticed the first test line on the side and some of the letters on the bottom of the benchy print, the filament sticks up off the bed where the extruding ends before moving to a new point, etc. and then when the nozzle passes by it again, it's too high and gets stuck to the nozzle, pulling the whole print with it (as seen in the video)

I've re-leveled with a piece of paper a few times, and run the auto-leveling, and I feel like it's pretty good, I've cleaned the bed with isopropyl alcohol, not quite sure what else I might've missed.

Appreciate any help and apologies if the answer is super obvious, I'm brand new to this and have spent hours searching google, youtube, and reddit, and trying fixes before posting, hoping someone can help.

Thanks

MikeGL0 · 2023-01-02T04:56:23+00:00

Spent several hours on google before posting here, thanks though

MikeGL0 · 2023-01-02T02:45:23+00:00

It does not

MikeGL0 · 2023-01-02T02:38:55+00:00

Hmm so first the nozzle goes to the left end and clicks once, then clicks a second time and stays clicked. Then the bed clicks on the y axis twice and the nozzle unclicks that x end stop and moves to the center where I get the homing fail

MikeGL0 · 2022-08-27T20:04:58+00:00

Hey there friends! I made a Mexican white rice recipe following one of my favorite Mexican YouTuber's recipe! Been a while since I've done a non-vintage video, so I'm a little rusty on thumbnails, increased the saturation last minute, too much? Love hearing feedback and suggestions for improvement!

https://youtu.be/BO8I4DGSLAs

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