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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Stepper Motor causing beaded prints]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>+1 on the VREF adjustment from me too.&nbsp; A lot of people here seem to be a fan of tuning it by ear but that did not work for me and I ended up with a lot of bad prints before I diagnosed it.&nbsp; I did get pretty close once Adrian gave me the tip about putting a mark on the extruder arm and making sure it turned smooth.&nbsp; The best thing to do, IMO, is to look up the proper voltage for your driver, get out your multimeter and tune it.&nbsp; If you have the stock board, then detailed instructions are available from the solidoodle.</p><p>Edit: I see where you said you tried VREF tuning with no success?&nbsp; What, exactly, did not work.&nbsp; Here is solidoodle&#039;s instructions: <br /><a href="http://support.solidoodle.com/hc/en-us/articles/202370540-How-to-Adjust-Your-Stepper-Chip-Voltage">http://support.solidoodle.com/hc/en-us/ … ip-Voltage</a></p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[mdrVB6]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-15T19:47:18Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Other ideas On E3D V6, some stuff I did with the E3Dv6. Did you use the PTFE Liner and push in in there good? Did you &quot;season&quot; it yet? By season I mean put a small amount of filiment covered in cooking oil through the hot end. </p><p>Like in this picture from the documentation, except my tubing goes to my just before my gears. I can&#039;t tell from your picture if you have it installed. </p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://e3d-online.com/image/data/V6/AssemblyImages/175PTFE.jpg" alt="http://e3d-online.com/image/data/V6/AssemblyImages/175PTFE.jpg" /></span></p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[LdyMox]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-15T19:13:44Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Stepper Motor causing beaded prints]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>For me it looks like some kind of surging behavior.</p><p>I have no idea whats going on but I think I would check out the following things if that happened to me:</p><p>1 - vref adjustment to be as smooth as possible<br />2 - adjust tension arm and check for smooth movement - bearing could be under too much pressure to move freely<br />3 - make sure your stepper motor connections are secure (some pulses on alternating coils may be weaker than others)<br />4 - try swapping the extruder motor driver with a different driver to make sure the driver hasn&#039;t died<br />5 - clean the hotend very thoroughly to make sure there is no debris or partial clog<br />6 - buy a new 3D printer (j/k)</p><p>Good luck</p><p>Edit - clogs can happen on new stuff too - you really want to check closely just in case - especially for something like a little burr somewhere like Ian mentioned</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[PheonixSD3]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-15T14:09:45Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>IanJohnson wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Does it make a difference if you increase the temp? I&#039;ve seen filament do something like that with a partial clog.&nbsp; &nbsp;I wonder if the nozzle had&nbsp; little bit of a burr left somewhere or some other machining problem.</p></blockquote></div><p>Nope, I&#039;ve tried everything from 215 to 300 and nothing seems to work. I dont think it&#039;s a clog because everything is pretty new on it.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[headstroon1992]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-15T13:02:20Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Stepper Motor causing beaded prints]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>IanJohnson wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Does it make a difference if you increase the temp? I&#039;ve seen filament do something like that with a partial clog.&nbsp; &nbsp;I wonder if the nozzle had&nbsp; little bit of a burr left somewhere or some other machining problem.</p></blockquote></div><p>Nope, I&#039;ve tried everything from 215 to 300 and nothing seems to work. I dont think it&#039;s a clog because everything is pretty new on it.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[headstroon1992]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-15T13:02:13Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Does it make a difference if you increase the temp? I&#039;ve seen filament do something like that with a partial clog.&nbsp; &nbsp;I wonder if the nozzle had&nbsp; little bit of a burr left somewhere or some other machining problem.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[IanJohnson]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T19:21:08Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>+1 for VREF adjustment.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[AZERATE]]></name>
				<uri>https://www.soliforum.com/user/4188/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T18:23:52Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>headstroon1992 wrote:</cite><blockquote><div class="quotebox"><cite>elmoret wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Can you post a picture of how you assembled the e3d?</p></blockquote></div><br /><p>It&#039;s just a regular set up.</p></blockquote></div><p>That tension arm seems a bit tight...try backing that off.</p><p>Also, if you sharpie a black dot on the extruder gear and then hit extrude 10mm (at heat), take a look and see if the rotation is smooth or sputtered.</p><p>Also, you can post a video on Youtube and just put the link here.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[IronMan]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T18:17:55Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>And this is what the first layer kinda looks like. It&#039;s wavy/beaded</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[headstroon1992]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T18:09:13Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>wardjr wrote:</cite><blockquote><div class="quotebox"><cite>IronMan wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Try the vref adjustment as Ian pointed out...</p></blockquote></div><p>+1 past that we need a video of it in action to really help.<br />Also might try some different filament or drying that stuff out.</p></blockquote></div><br /><p>The server won&#039;t let me upload a video (too large). I have tried other filaments and are getting the same results. And I tried the Vref thing that Ian was saying with no sucess.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[headstroon1992]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T18:05:14Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>elmoret wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Can you post a picture of how you assembled the e3d?</p></blockquote></div><br /><p>It&#039;s just a regular set up.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[headstroon1992]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T18:03:39Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Can you post a picture of how you assembled the e3d?</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[elmoret]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T16:17:56Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>IronMan wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Try the vref adjustment as Ian pointed out...</p></blockquote></div><p>+1 past that we need a video of it in action to really help.<br />Also might try some different filament or drying that stuff out.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[wardjr]]></name>
				<uri>https://www.soliforum.com/user/2291/</uri>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T16:15:33Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Try the vref adjustment as Ian pointed out...</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[IronMan]]></name>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T15:31:26Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>IronMan wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>That&#039;s a huge diameter...dumb question, but you do have a nozzle installed, correct? :-)</p></blockquote></div><p>Yes, I have a 0.4 mm brass nozzle on it</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2014-08-14T15:20:50Z</updated>
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