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    Partial Answer Why so flaky?

    I tried a different brand of PLA, but had the same issue. I bumped up the extruder temp to 215 and it's been printing for nearly 3 hours now....
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 19, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Partial Answer Why so flaky?

    Geof, thanks for the response, the CR10S is $150.00 more than the CR10 from Bangood, a little more than I wanted to spend. What can you recommend...
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 19, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Partial Answer Why so flaky?

    My current spool, doesn't work with the oiler that I had printed, but I do occasionally oil the filament with an oil saturated tiny piece of...
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 19, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Partial Answer Why so flaky?

    Two of the hot ends are factory Robo, the third is a reprapdiscount hot end. I guess part of what I was hoping was that a bad board might create...
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 19, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Partial Answer Why so flaky?

    This happens with three different hot end, two were brand new. Heat bed not reporting temp, has nothing to do with the hot end....
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 19, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Partial Answer Why so flaky?

    Ya'll are getting to know me as I've been posting quite a bit lately. I've had my Robo R1+ for two years and have had very few problems with it....
    Thread by: Paul Arnold, Feb 18, 2018, 19 replies, in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Solved Hot End smoking, software reads 136 degrees

    Thanks for all your help once again people, I find this forum to be most helpful. Now I will let you in on the 136 degree temperature reading......
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 17, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Solved Hot End smoking, software reads 136 degrees

    So I had the brilliant idea to plug a thermistor directly into the ramps board, and it's now reporting 19.6 degrees, so I am thinking definately...
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 17, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Solved Hot End smoking, software reads 136 degrees

    With the printer powered off and the hot end not connected, I pulled the wire from the indicated position which was my best guess as to what was...
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 17, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Solved Hot End smoking, software reads 136 degrees

    The hot end continually heats up until it literally starts blowing smoke out of the tip of the nozzle. Two different hot ends do exactly the same...
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 17, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Solved Hot End smoking, software reads 136 degrees

    I have two different hot ends and the both smoke when I run the printer. Matter control, Cura, and S3d all report the extruder temp at 135...
    Thread by: Paul Arnold, Feb 16, 2018, 9 replies, in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Solved Filament only extrudes with matter control

    lol, what a dope I am. It was the temperature being set too low, just changed it to 200 in Simplify and it's printing perfectly.
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 12, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting
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    Solved Filament only extrudes with matter control

    I've been using Matter Control, Cura, and Simplify 3D. All with success, but I find different models may print better with one over the other....
    Post by: Paul Arnold, Feb 12, 2018 in forum: Troubleshooting