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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Okay... Bummer!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I have a lot of experience with big, solid, and thick parts that are tough to print. My approach is as follows:</p><p>-CAD your own brim. Why? Because the &quot;grain&quot; of the brim goes with the first layer of your part, because it is, in fact, the first layer of your part. The &quot;brim&quot; that Slic3r attaches to your gcode goes around your part in a circle, and easily breaks away. Your CAD brim will hold the part much better. Use the Slic3r brim if you still have room on your bed. I make my brim .3mm thick by about 12mm wide. Sometimes I make my own brim thicker and add shrink relief features. </p><p>-CAD more shrink relief features into your parts. Break them up with cut extruded features - slots, circles, squares, cute little hearts, anything. The more you have, the less material there is to shrink, right? </p><p>-Less infill. This is really an extension of the previous approach. Besides, 50% produces a ridiculously strong part in most cases, especially if you&#039;re using good filament, you&#039;re printing hot, and your printer is REALLY dialed in. So, why not try 25% infill? Ok, if you need 20 degree angle pressure gears for an industrial machine like I just printed a month ago, then fine, go 100%. </p><p>-I call this step &quot;slurry in a hurry&quot;. Dissolve lots of ABS scrap in 100% pure acetone, shake, pour in cup, brush on surface. I even do this when it&#039;s hot, but I would NOT recommend this for anybody but me. (it just sizzles a bit, dries real fast) When I&#039;m in a rush I will scrape my just printed part off my glass bed, slap on some new &quot;slurry&quot; with a paint brush, and hit run. </p><p>-Finally, do you have an enclosure???</p><p>Good luck!</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (Briggs)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 01:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Okay... Bummer!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>ronsii wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>I notice you don&#039;t have much if any &#039;smush&#039; of the first layer to get it to stick... something this big and solid you will need all the adhesion help you can get. have you thought about a raft?</p></blockquote></div><p>I will re-level my bed and get it tighter at zero.&nbsp; I had a 10 mm brim, is that different than a raft?&nbsp; I will be trying the print again with the bed at 98 instead of 95 degrees too.</p><p>The print is not solid but I was just a few layers into the features other than the base plate.</p><p>After I get the project completed, I will post the stl&#039;s but for the time being, the whole project is theoretical and experimental, no sense in having others waste a bunch of plastic to reproduce non functional blobs. <img src="https://www.soliforum.com/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /></p><p>The over all height is about 7 and a half inches, but that may be overkill on the upper pipe connection, so it could be shortened to be printed on an SD2.</p><p>At any rate, I will update this post as I move along and complete the design and testing.&nbsp; This section is just the nozzles.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 16:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Okay... Bummer!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>For what its worth. I like the camera angle for the time laps <img src="https://www.soliforum.com/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /></p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (Merko)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>If you are printing that entirely solid, making it stick will be VERY hard.&nbsp; ABS and acetone would be the only thing which could do it I think.&nbsp; Also, increase your temp to about 200 and see if it helps those first layers stick better.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 06:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Okay... Bummer!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I notice you don&#039;t have much if any &#039;smush&#039; of the first layer to get it to stick... something this big and solid you will need all the adhesion help you can get. have you thought about a raft?</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (ronsii)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 06:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Okay... Bummer!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>So, I am working on a hydro pressure gold dredge, and after finishing the water nozzle section, I begin my 17+ hour print run.&nbsp; I added a ten mm brim for added grip to my large&nbsp; base, and started the run.&nbsp; After a couple of hours the whole darned thing came lose.&nbsp; CRAP!!!!&nbsp; I am using a 1/8 inch glass surface with &quot;white rain&quot; hair spray, at 95 degrees C.&nbsp; The ABS nozzle is at 195 C.&nbsp; The whole darned thing, the largest I have ever tried printing, suddenly released and began to travel with the nozzle.&nbsp; What the Heck.&nbsp; I was on&nbsp; like layer 15 or so.&nbsp; Please check out the vid.. and if you have a helpful suggestion .. I am all ears.<br />hopefully this will take you to a video at one frame per second.&nbsp; <br /><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18632844/CLIP0006.MP4">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/186 … IP0006.MP4</a><br />Thanks for any help you can offer.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (RGargus)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 04:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
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