Topic: First attempt to use extruded filament...failed
Hey all,
Sorry for the long post... you were warned. Lol.
Not sure if anyone can help, but I got my first clog since owning my SD3 (over a year now) and it happened with my filastruder filament. Just looking for suggestions as I am soaking my nozzle as I type.
Here is what I did...
I have had the filament extruded for about 6 months.
I did trash the first 10 to 12 hours of filament as suggested due to contaminants. Haven't seen any contaminants in what I am trying to use.
No, I did not keep it out of the humidity, but I don't keep my store bought filament out of the humidity either.
I mic'ed a piece of my store bought filament which read 1.8 mm and then my filastruder filament which read 1.7. I changed my filament setting in slicer to reflect the difference.
Otherwise all my settings, SD extruder temp, etc, were the same as always.
The first 2 layers worked good, even though I noticed a slight gap in "some" of the bottom layer lines where as with store bought the lines were always tight together.
Somewhere, either at the very end of the second layer or somewhere in the third layer is when the nozzle clogged.
For a little bit I was able to push the filament into the extruder and it would extrude a little bit, but that only lasted so long.
I backed out the filastruder filament and put in some store bought and it extruded a little bit before stopping again.
Basically just wondering if there were any tweaks that others have found that need to be done when using filastruder filament.
Got my filament from OS along with blue colorant.
I did a search, but didn't find much. Seen where some people stated they do not run their temps any different with filastruder filament, etc....but I could have sworn that I had seen a post, way back when, where some people stated they had to run theirs at a lower temp.
Thanks.