I have a Sapphire Plus printer which I have heavily modified (out of the box it is a piece of junk). After finally changing the mainboard and installing Klipper I got it to print reliably. Of course the next thing I wanted to do was print fast. It quickly became apparent that the E3D V6 hotend and the anemic 3010 fans severely limited said goal. So I got myself a Dragon HF hotend, a 5020 blower and printed this print head. From the get go I had massive problems with retraction, even after calibrating pressure advance the retraction towers I tried in Orca Slicer where all stringy messes. I kinda got it under control by severely slowing the retraction speed to 25mm/s with a 0.4mm retraction distance with nozzle wipe.
But now I’m sometimes getting these weird stringing artifacts on prints. Not on every print and not on every part, it’s just certain seams that get them. Does anyone have any idea what could be the culprit? It ruined the finish on a few otherwise perfect prints
I actually had a hell of a time with petg with a 0.6mm cht on a dragon hf, ended up going back to a nozzle x because of it. I also found the bimetal cht nozzles really fragile, like 1.5 Nm torque from one of those slice preset wrenches and I’d still manage to have them shear off in the block after a few nozzle changes.
What did help was lowering the temps and being aggressive with the retraction speed (went up to 50mm/s if I recall), but even then the cht nozzles oozed a lot with petg, could have tuned a bit more but as I said I ended up going back to my other nozzles.
Kept the dragon though and actually swapped my mk3s over because I like that the block is fixed for nozzle changes and actually changed my voron to a dragon UHF that seems to be working well so far.
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s oozing. It’s unconnected to the previous section, but dripped out after the movement. The first blob attaches a little outside, the second blob on that one, building a 45 degree spire. (One crappy side effect is that for REALLY long moves, it can cause under extrusion at the restart.)
I have a Sovol SV06 Plus, also high flow. Same issue. I think it’s a weakness in all high flow because there’s FAR more filament in the melt zone. Lowering the temperature has helped a ton, but not solved it completely. I added a bigger fan on the hotend cooling section and it helped a lot, but not solved it. I’ve been told that upping my retraction to unreasonable levels should help, but I’ve not tried it. As in, I’ve got a direct drive, which usually has retraction less than 1mm, but to up it to 4mm. It’s my next experiment.
As an aside, if I could go back, I’d not get high flow option. I’d stick with the standard SV06.
Ramenator@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, I should probably try it with a lower temperature, also got some PLA Meta filament in the post that might help