a little help for a new guy

X2 on the pics

what temperature are you printing at? and where is the filament from? Strength is a tricky thing and prints will always be weaker along the z axis just because of how 3d printing works but it may be that you do not have some settings right to get as much layer bonding as possible also.

I will have to get some pictures as i dont have anything with me right now.  I will take some of some broken and some not broken parts. 

As far as print settings im printing at 203 on the head and 116 on the bed.  I havnt calibrated my flowrate yet...got any links to a page that explains how to do that?  The filament is from a place called "automation technology"  but im having all the same problems from the filament from solidoodle and from the other stuff.

Are you printing with Abs or PLA im thinking your printing with ABS because of the temp that you are using on the head. Try printing around 195 on the head thats the temp that I print on when using ABS, but i use octave ABS fillament, but it all depends on your fillament too.

Same problem RavensCrest if having. But my real issue is more when i print like bolts or a cylinder or something like that they snap off somewhere on the shaft.   I understand its only  plastic and I know it will be weaker one way due to how it prints.  But I dont know if its just me but my prints are insanely strong as far as compression and side wall strength.  But i cant get the layers to bond together well enough to have anything that I call a "reliable part".

I didnt get a picture of my stuff last night because i didnt get home until about 10pm and i leave for work at 4 am....and i sleep is semi important LOL

agree with high temp... but higher temp also cause warp :-(
oh well, you just have to test it, maybe for small piece like bolts its fine, btw what's you infill?

ok here are some pictures of a print that did go all the way through but the parts are unusable.  they were carage replacement parts...but the thinner parts broke right away and you can see that they sure didnt bond well AT ALL to the layers below.  Also the larger part warped but i have glass im putting on tomorrow that i hope will take care of that.  any suggestions?  Printed at the same temps and all that.  I watched the videos and read all the links you guys posted.  It just goes through general usage and so on.  NO help what so ever in troubleshooting or what settings to change to fix different problems. 

Thanks in advance guys!

All the printing software is on my other computer (laptop not fired up right now) But I will get them for you tomorrow morning.  I don't think its a slicer setting because I have about 6 or so different settings to do things from single layer to solid fill and all in between and they all act exactly the same as far as this problem. 

Also if you guys look at the pictures I made sure that the broken off pieces were flipped so you can see the 2 surfaces where they broke It looks to me like the perimeter doesn't have any trauma to the plastic (lightened from being pulled apart).  Only the corner area on a couple places.  I had thought about higher temps but im printing with it set at 203!

Your filament diameter is way off, 3mm instead of about 1.75mm, that was teh first thing I noticed. May or may not be responsible.

I see what your saying with the filament size.  So i set that to 1.75 (i know it may not be exact but im just looking to get in the ball bark and tweak from there) and is the multiplier still supposed to be set to 1?

On the retraction i havnt touched those....its exactly as it was from Solidoodle.  And i do get just a bit of touching sometimes on some of the areas...but not all the time.