<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/1359/streaks/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:38:20 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13592/#p13592 cmetzel wrote:

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/407/crea … 3d-prints/

I hadn't even seen that link.

]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:38:20 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13592/#p13592 <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13394/#p13394 http://www.soliforum.com/topic/407/crea … 3d-prints/

]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:43:36 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13394/#p13394 <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13389/#p13389 Cool - I'll have to look that up.  Thanks!

]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:13:51 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13389/#p13389 <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13330/#p13330 SpaceCowboy850 wrote:

Oh - haha - carcassonne tiles!  big_smile

Had to look it up, but cool

There's a method someone had here for applying ink like a transfer label to printed parts.  Then you'd have the texture and the color really quick.

]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:44:28 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13330/#p13330 <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13319/#p13319 OOooooooh. nice!

]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:55:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13319/#p13319 <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13292/#p13292 Oh - haha - carcassonne tiles!  big_smile

]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:27:23 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13292/#p13292 <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13204/#p13204 cmetzel wrote:

What is it that you're printing, if you don't mind my asking?

I wondered the same thing!

]]> Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:55:08 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13204/#p13204 <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13094/#p13094 What is it that you're printing, if you don't mind my asking?

]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:19:45 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13094/#p13094 <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13071/#p13071 I tightened up the extruder spring screw slightly, and that seemed to fix it.  Thanks!

]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:32:07 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13071/#p13071 <![CDATA[Re: Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13050/#p13050 I would blame that on filament not coming through properly.

1. Not enough tension on extruder spring.
2. Ground filament clogging the extruder gear.
3. Extruder temp dropping lower in patches or too low in general. This increases the difficulty in pushing the filament through cleanly, and result is the skinny patches that are leaving gaps in the horizontal surfaces.

Which ever it is, notice how the perimeters are fine but just the straight infill sections have the gaps?

The print head travels faster in these sections, exaggerating any of the above problems.

]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:09:47 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13050/#p13050 <![CDATA[Streaks]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13021/#p13021 So, I've just done a mod to print on aluminum.  One thing I'm noticing is that sometimes it looks like the plastic doesn't extrude, so on the surface of my model, it leaves streaks, or lines where the fill layer shows through (ugly).  Now, I've done a number of things putting things, any of which might have caused this:

1)  I cut an aluminum plate and put kapton on it.
2)  I releveled the bed
3)  I brushed out shavings in the piece that pulls in the filament.

So I'm thinking either
1)  The bed/aluminum isn't level
2)  When I brushed out the plastic shavings, I only did one side, so it is slipping on the other (I just tried to clean out the other side while I'm printing to see if that improves things.  Doesn't look like it.
3) ??

Any ideas what is happening?  I could switch back to printing on the standard bed and see if that fixes it. (included picture to show what I'm seeing.)

]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:32:57 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13021/#p13021