I could not wait any longer for the bed heater to arrive so my

3D Printing HercuLien and Eustathios
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I could not wait any longer for the bed heater to arrive so my son and I wanted to see how it would print … after reassembly the Z-gantry and build plate (lot easier with help) we tried a test print of a square with a cylinder. We warmed up the build plate with a heat gun and after screwing up all the settings in Slic3r settings in Pronterface we finally see a recognizable object. I wonder if there is a noob setting for all the variables we have?

This was printed using black ABS maybe PLA would be easier to start with? I am using the largest Volcano 1.2mm nozzle which I have incorrectly set to .5 (default). The first few prints I mistakenly set the extruder multiplier to 2 and 4, all the extruder did was burn rubber on the fillament thus causing a lot of missfeed, and finally going back to default of 1 (default) worked out and after reading about this setting a 4 = 400 percent is much too high! DUH!

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Yes ABS on a cold bed doesn’t work to well. But great to see you making progress :slight_smile:

I love seeing more printers come to life. Great work.

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You COULD buy a spool of PLA…it’ll stick pretty well to that Blue tape if you rub it down with Alcohol.

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Blue tape is mostly known to work with PLA anyway. For ABS, you want kapton if you’re using a tape.

Small pieces might work with ABS on an unheated platform, but you would need a couple tricks combined. You would need to experiment.

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Thanks for the advice, I got some PLA and it was a little easier to print without heating the bed. I am trying .60 nozzle. Is there a way to auto start the hot end fan when it is heated up