trouble printing a part (Page 1 of 2)

Two suggestions:

I had trouble printing a particularly large, thin item due to curling.  I raised the printbed temperature by 10 degrees C, and had no more problems.

Other times when I've had problems with sticking or curling, I've applied some Elmer's glue stick to the printbed.  It's worked really well for me.

Thanks I guess I 'll try that next

Ahhhh    opps I removed the kapton tape, now using a mirror with hair spray. Results to follow.The bed is level as I can get it.
Also  enclosed the printer with foam board. Fingers  Xed this will do the trick.

I normally run a bed temp of 105.  I've used as high as 115 for a particular spool of crappy white, to keep it from curling up as it cools.

I gave this model a spin and while it's not a particularly lengthy print, it does take more than 4 hours if printed at .1mm.  So maybe in the OP's case, this is an issue of the print taking too long to print. 

Try slicing it at .3mm and printing it, and see if this helps with the curling.  This is a utilitarian piece, so perfect surfaces should not be an issue.

Do you have an enclosure?  I would print something like that totally solid at .3mm with the bed at 105 to 110.  If your enclosed let the bed warm up for a while so inside the printer is nice and toasty.  Squish the first layer as much as you can get by with and use only about 5mm brim.  setting the filament temp. too high will only complicate your issue of curling so use a temp that usually yields the best results.  Spray the glass with two or three light coats letting it dry in between.  The ABS shrinks as it cools and that should be a fairly simple print job.  So my guess is the air surrounding the print itself is too cool.
Maybe I'll go and print one quick just out of curiosity.

Edit: By upside down do you mean the way it's shown in the picture or the way it downloads the file?

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I will say this though...
The bearings sit in there rather loose but I am curious to hear how this works out for you.

I just liked the one piece design as oppossed to the 3 piece. I have to  get some linear bearings to test both designs.

I had a similar problem with Lawsy's carriage ends, they were too loose for the linear bearings. 

In my particular case, I was able to simply wedge a piece of a business card under the bearing to fix the slop, and so far I have at least 100+ hours on them with out any ill effects or slop.

ok , it's 80+F in the enclosure, hot enough? I 'll see how that does.

PM me and I can just send you the one I printed.

The saga continues,LOL   Can someone take a look at this pic and tell me what  is causing that?The brim will start out fine then as you can see about the 3rd loop the inside starts puckering.It's like the nozzle is raising up at that point. I can't see that it is tho.The machine is calibrated best I can get it . In the past it worked well,I printed a lot of good parts.