Word. I’ll give that a go, thank you.
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What your picture is showing is not stringing, it appears to be an utter failure of layer adhesion. That indicates to me you are printing too cold or, more likely, too fast for PETG. What you’re grinding against is most likely layers of the print that have not adhered to the layers below.
Try slowing it down and do a test print. See if anything improves.
franzfurdinand@lemmy.world 3 days ago
franzfurdinand@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Hoo boy I had it going way too fast. I had it moving at 150mm/s. I very strongly suspect this is about 90% of my problem. Layer quality already seems vastly improved a few layers in at 50mm/s. I very much appreciate the insight!
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I agree that it’s probably a speed issue. When I first started printing, I was seeing just how fast I could go with PLA and tuning for that. Decided to try out PETG a few months later, and it was a disaster. Layers weren’t bonding properly, and the filament would bridge across points on the print. Once I backed print speed down to 50, I started to get much better results.