Just goes to show you sometimes it's the little things that cause the most problems... That I know all too well

Still need a slight amount of Z adjustment but look!!

No wonder it didn't work.

The thing is that somehow I got confused or during a transfer of programs the default solidoodle filament thing turned into 3, so I thought 'well I know my filament is 1.75.. but the solidoodle settings that were preloaded say 3..  must be some weird thing'  and then I finally changed it and BAM it works perfectly!

A bonus to this misadventure is that I fixed the other aspects of the printer so well to get it to even marginally work with the setup incorrect, is that now that its correct, it works great!

I dont think its warping at all with my new enclosure.

OKAY for anyone who has this problem.  The filament diameter being actually set to 1.75 is VERY important.

This is the filament that I purchased.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3D-Printer-Fila … 27d160ac4c

I got white 1.75mm abs

Also, I cleaned the extruder gear thing, and raised the temp way up, and calibrated the flow so 100mm = 100mm

but it still fails!  It's like it just doesn't have enough flow.  At least I stopped the lumpy plastic issue by clearing out the extruder.

I'll try raising the flow way up and see if that helps, unless you have a better idea.

Thanks!

Have you done the auto calibration for the extruder heater? What does your temp graph look like in repetier?

Natural filament have always worked the best for me( lowest temp for good extrusion) but I have successfully used quite a range of colors from at least 5 or 6 different suppliers.

It worked so well with the stuff that came with it, and this new stuff just.. is terrible.

When it extrudes it seems to get all fuzzy and not pure.  The plastic that comes out is a bit lumpy.

When it prints it does the first layer fine but the second layer on seems to be like.. the extruder can't keep up with the printer. I've tried temps all over the place and it doesn't matter.  It just can't seem to feed plastic fast enough, but I know it's capable because it did it with the red filament just fine.

Any advice?

What do I do?

One other thing, clogs can happen without warning from impurities in the filament to debris sticking to the filament and getting pulled into the extruder while printing.

Is there some different way that one must use white filament instead of red?

How do I check for a clog, and what constitutes as overheating?

Also, if this helps any, I had it extrude 100mm of filament and as it came out there was a tiny amount of smoke.

Not sure what's happening.

I am struggling to get even the simplest part to print. I loaded in a fresh spool of ABS.  It was vacuum sealed and had the gel humidity pellets and everything.

But for some reason its as if the extruder is having trouble extruding plastic.  Before prints were perfect, but now they look like this:

Please help!  I can't seem to figure it out. I've leveled the bed a million times, checked all the settings..

Partial clog?
Overheating?