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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoThank you for explaining it so thoroughly. I’ll keep a look out for changing extrusion levels because I use the white pla, it probably has titanium oxide in it. My printer came with quite a few extra nozzles, I’m just afraid of fucking up the printer when I change it the first time so I’m avoiding having to do it.
TwanHE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Even if you do wear out your nozzle slightly it probably still works perfectly fine if you change nozzle size/line width in the slicer. I printed a bunch of cf-asa on a brass nozzle since my hardened steel one hadn’t arrived yet. Started out as a .4 but became a .8 nozzle after about 500 grams of printing.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
That’s good to know, I guess I have to start measuring the width now. I didn’t even think to get one of those measuring devices. Thanks.
TwanHE@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Don’t need to measure, just increase the size by .1 when the extruded lines aren’t flattened out by the nozzle anymore. It’s not a foolproof strategy but might save you from wearing out multiple nozzles instead of 1
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Thanks again, very helpful.