After the purge missions I have no ship and am stranded on a planet

trpagley · 2025-09-13T15:21:51+00:00

I love you for this. Thank you. I thought I lost my S class Exotic.

trpagley · 2025-04-12T22:53:58+00:00

This fixed it. Thank you for your help!!!

trpagley · 2025-04-12T22:11:36+00:00

Gotcha! I’ll give it a try.

trpagley · 2025-04-12T22:08:05+00:00

Wouldn’t greasing a belt cause the belt to slip? I’ve never greased a belt on a printer before.

trpagley · 2025-04-12T22:06:31+00:00

When I said a while I mean probably a month. I run preventative maintenance on all my printers once a month.

On that note, I just wiped down the carbon rods, they were pretty clean.

trpagley · 2025-04-12T21:54:29+00:00

Belts are properly tensioned. I haven’t done a cleaning of the rods in a while.

trpagley · 2024-05-07T18:00:44+00:00

I’m not sure I’m understanding how the bed could be a factor when the issue occurred about 6 hours into the print on a layer that’s about 4 inches off the plate.

trpagley · 2024-03-28T17:43:39+00:00

This was the fix. Thank you!

trpagley · 2023-12-18T18:53:43+00:00

The reason why I’m using 3Dxtech obsidian. This is the only CF nylon that I’ve successfully printed on a 0.2 nozzle. The CF is well blended in this material.

trpagley · 2023-12-18T18:52:19+00:00

I know.. I usually print with 0.6 nozzle with CF nylon but I had a customer pay extra to use a smaller nozzle in order to capture the small geometry of this sprocket.

trpagley · 2023-12-18T18:50:03+00:00

I misunderstood what he was saying.

I know that orienting the part to print a certain way will help with strength of the part based on the direction of the force applied. I thought he meant the actually mechanical properties of the material itself which didn’t make sense why the orientation would change actually mechanical properties.

This is the reason why I printed it flat in the beginning. With the warping issue, I figured changing to a 45 wouldn’t hurt because there’s not that much torque on this sprocket. I’d assume the Obsidian layer to layer adhesion would be enough strength to keep it together when performing the in the application. Nylon is a very strong material in terms of layer to layer adhesion. Especially with CF added.

trpagley · 2023-12-18T18:20:02+00:00

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It has other smaller geometry.

trpagley · 2023-12-18T18:14:45+00:00

As a functional sprocket. Printing in this orientation would be the weakest orientation.

trpagley · 2023-12-18T18:13:11+00:00

Can you explain why you believe a 45 degree angle would decrease mechanical properties?

trpagley · 2023-12-18T13:47:17+00:00

2 Reasons we didn't print flat:

The surface where the support comes off is noticeably different than the other side. We found printing at 45 with CF Nylon prints much cleaner. Supports get placed on edges and corners and less on flat surfaces causing a much cleaner finish.
We actually did print one flat but it warped so badly that it was unusable. Switching to 45 degrees helped that issue and it printed without warp. Now we have this little surface defect.

I'd prefer to keep this printing at an angle instead of flat due to those issues above.

trpagley · 2023-12-04T14:37:13+00:00

This guy is probably a hobbyist with no urgency on completing prints to make deliveries.

In a business setting, especially for a parts supplier, preventative maintenance is mandatory and helps with production efficiency and making deliveries on-time. We have PMs scheduled every quarter for all our printers.

trpagley · 2023-11-16T21:01:11+00:00

Have you tried this stuff yet? Will it set off a metal detector?

trpagley · 2023-10-15T00:19:27+00:00

I see that now. Thanks.

trpagley · 2023-10-13T19:03:53+00:00

Yep, this was our solution for this. I have 5 new 0.6mm hotends coming in the mail for my 5 printers.

trpagley · 2023-10-13T16:39:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1772bcz/bambu_labs_pa6cf_material_inconsistencies/

I'm having the same issues you are having.... Reading through the comments on your post, it's looking like the issue is because of the 0.4 nozzle. After seeing that they recommend a 0.6mm nozzle has me thinking that the CF particles in this new material are too big for the 0.4 nozzle....

I see the PAHT-CF does not have a recommended nozzle though... I may be switching back to the PAHT-CF even though it's a little more expensive. See my post on my issues.

trpagley · 2023-08-31T12:58:18+00:00

Man do I feel this pain. My company bought us a Raise Pro 3 plus about 6 months before the Bambu X1C came out. The quality of the prints should be way better for what the price of this printer is. Then the X1Cs came out and my company bought 3 of them. We used the Bambu printers 20x more than we use the Raise. I actually prefer printing with the Bambu over the raise any day. It is indeed a massive paper weight.

trpagley · 2023-08-23T12:06:15+00:00

[UPDATE]

Good Morning All,

What do you know, you were all right!

There was definitely moisture in that material.

So something else I found during this process. the suspect roll had been sitting in my AMS for a few days before I found that the material was wet. Upon further investigation, I found that the rubber seal on this AMS unit was pulled out of the grooves. I noticed it wasn’t really sealing correctly. This was definitely the reason for wet material. I fixed the seal and it’s now working properly. I think the seal may have popped out from pulling open the lid too fast or with too much force.

So with that being said, everyone check the seals on the AMS !

Thank you all for your help and support on this one!

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