Comment on PETG damaged plate

Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sorry, I edited the post to add: Creality Ender 3 V3 SE, with the stock plate.

  It does indeed feel like a depression. Or more accurately, it feels like the texture surface has been removed. This seems to be confirmed by dark residue on the bottom of my print, which I can only see because I happened to be using a light filament. Image

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  • baduhai@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I also destroyed my Ender 3 V3 SE’s stock plate with petg. It just sticks too well to petg, I was only able to reliably print petg when I changed plates.

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    • user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What did you replace it with?

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      • baduhai@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I replaced it with a cheap textured pei coated metal plate. It doesn’t stick to pla as well, but it printed pretty much everything I threw at it.

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  • Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I guess this may indeed be a z issue, those diagonal lines could be when the nozzle moved from corner to corner without laying material down.

    I don’t think this has anything to do with the material or temperature or anything like that.

    I’m not overly familiar with the Ender, but maybe run a bed levelling protocol or other calibration option? The plate is probably toast unfortunately.

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    • user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Thanks for confirming… luckily these plates are double-sided so I have a backup while I order a replacement. As I mentioned in another post, the auto-leveling leaves the nozzle just a bit too high and so I’ve consistently had to lower it. I primarily print in PLA and so usually do my bed-leveling prints in that material. I’ve previously used PET-G with zero issues, so something about the sequence of leveling and adjusting must be different this time around.

      Now I know to run the leveling each material change, which is annoying but probably not too surprising.

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    • user_6282638282@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No I did not change plates. I’ve been using the included plate without issue … until now!

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