Keraynopoylos'printer(Chris)

keraynopoylos, what print resolution was used for the snowman?

 

OH MY G*D. I HATE YOU FOR HAVING SUCH AMAZING PRINTS!!!!!!!!

how did you get them to look so good e.g: showman overhang on hat is amazing. the vase is amazing. share with me your secrets. pla/abs?

 

Layer heigh for all my prints(so far) is 0.3mm.

Soupaboy, dont hate me..! The snow man was consisted of parts. The hat for example was a different part that clips on the body.

The vase was one whole print though and considering other prints of it Ive seen on thingverse, it has come out quite well...


Thank you all!

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/103707168@N03/10091313426/

Works great!

 

I call this one: "Real Men Don't Use Support Materials"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/103707168@N03/10103384936/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/103707168@N03/10103422296/

Should fit Autopsy's doll's feet, if I got the size right

 

That shoe looks fantastic! Looks like only one dropped loop right at a rather understandable spot. Looks maybe a little bit too small to fit my doll foot but if ya have the file for it, I can always print it out and do a fitting.

What filament is that pretty glassy red you're using?

 

There are your shoes: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:106979

The filamernt is FormFutura's Flaming Red

 

Bays and girls... blocked extruder...

What do I do..?

 

Ah the fun! I found the few times this happened to be I had to drill out the ptfe tube as thats where my blockage was...yes nerve racking. Heat up the extruder and see if you can use filament to push the blockage, if not I found this was what I needed to do;
Take off the hot end by undoing the two long screws on the side which allowed the j-head hot end to drop out, once out you'll likely see the blockage or at least be able to confirm it by trying to push something thing through it (like a straight paper clip or pin). If this is the case find a drill bit small enough to fit inside, too big and you'll ruin the hot end so be careful. Then just slowly drill it out, don't go too deep with the drill bit, chances are the blockage is in the middle of the tube and not near the hot end its self. Once you think you are good, take a piece of filament and try pushing it through, itll stop once its at the hot end since its off. Re assemble, heat up, and extruder some material to make sure all is good and clean again.

Thats my advice, had it happen 3 or 4 times to me.

 

Problem solved(with Tesseract's help, as usual).

First we established that it was indeed a blocked nozzle and not something else.

Inserting a strand of cable from the outside in, allowed slight extrusion for 3-4 secs.

Then, when all else failed, Jeff proposed to use ABS filament(blockage was with PLA) at a lower temp(had to be about 145C at the end) so that PLA will stick on the ABS, while ABS wont melt. So did this 3-4 times and some PLA would always come up.

And then it just worked..!

Thanks to Jeff once again(and to Michael for the reply too)

 

Glad to hear you got it unblocked!