Topic: temperature
What temperature you use for abs.i fine that 240 works verry good.
Can the hot end melted by using this temperature.
Why press max temp says is 230 and soliprint 1.0 has default temp 250.
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I am printing at 230 and the bed at 90. Seems to be working well so far.
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I usually print ABS at 240 C as well. You won't damage the printer at that temperature. I have printed with nylon at 260 C without any problem.
4 2015-02-16 17:27:05 (edited by hazanjon 2015-02-16 17:27:13)
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Blade1,
when you say your bed is at 90 is that as reported in soliprint or the actual glass temp as I find there is a large discrepancy. I set my bed temp to 120 and then measure the glass temp and its about 85C
Thanks
5 2015-02-16 17:52:29 (edited by blade1 2015-02-18 13:53:55)
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Its the reported temp. The glass is lower, but I have not measure.
Current process: Turn everything on. Start heating bed from setting screen.
At bed temp 80(reported) I apply purple glue stick to print area.
Uncheck bed heat, and set hotend to 230 and click the heat printer button on main screen.
Verify that both are heating. (So times you have to click it again to get them both to come back on.)
When both hit operating temp(230 hotend, 90 bed) I extrude 5-10mm of filament, remove it from hotend.
Then click print.
I have only been doing this for a week and I am still refining the process. But this has worked so far. The one time it failed to stick to the glass was when I did not extrude a little filament before printing. The only thing that did not stick was the rim (maybe its called a brim, the first thing that prints), I plucked it off before it got in the way and the rest of the print was fine.
All my prints have required the scraper and a lot of force to remove, even when glass has cooled.
Edit:
The above is with the 1lb starter filament that comes with press.
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I agree with the other posts, I'm finding 240 degrees to work well for ABS. I leave my bed at the default 90 degrees.
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Thanks for detailed walk through Blade, I will try this when I get home tonight! I get the feeling that I must have been running the bed temp way too high.
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It really depends on the ABS. I have some ABS filament that prints really well, but 205C seems like the sweet spot for it. I have some other filament that I don't like as well but I can get OK prints if I run at 230C. If I set the bed temp above 110C for the good (205C) stuff, I run into problems with the lower layers shrinking and warping.
I think it would be useful if people would document where they got their filament when reporting temperatures and recipes. Here's the two I referred to:
205C/100C (extruder/bed) : eshop2018 (ebay)
230C/110C : I can't say for sure - I bought it on eBay and it has a larger spool but has long since rolled off my history
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TickTock I should have added that. I edit the post with the information.
In the filament section of the forum someone is documenting all the filaments that he uses on the press.
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do you guys still leave the top door and side door open when printing at 240?
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I only leave the top open.
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even on long prints? because long prints i still get jammed, on soli 1.1.1, extruder is at 215C and heat bed 90C
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Yup. I am just finishing up a 2 1/2 hour print, with just the top open. I have done prints of over 12 hours this way. What filament are you using?
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the one that came with the solidoodle. so i should increase temperature and open top lid?
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I would suggest that you try it. I tried printing at the lower temps with the lid closed, and it still jammed for me, but I waven't had any problems with the lid open.
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@Fredjikrang what filament are you using?
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I also succeeded long (>30min) print only when lid is open. I'm using original ABS, 215C extruder, and 110C bed. Kapton tape on bed, buffed with sanding paper. I need to do more testing with bed temperature, unbuffed Kapton etc., but for now it works.