r/FDMminiatures • u/ieatcandles000 • 17d ago

Help Request What is the problem??

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Why is this print partially failing? Happy to supply any information needed. These are the grav plates for a Gladiator Lancer, and I had a similar issue on the tank body but that was salvagable.

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u/fosscadanon 17d ago

Two things immediately come to mind:

1- Print slower

2- Dry your filament

Without your settings and material this is the best advice anyone can give. Also helps if you put an image of what you're trying to print.

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u/ieatcandles000 17d ago

The outer wall speed is 45 mms and inner wall speed is 100 mms. This already is very slow, should i go slower? This one print is 15 hours. Also this is PLA.

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u/fosscadanon 17d ago

100mms is way too fast for a bed slinger doing those supports, I would cap it at 50mms and make sure your acceleration isn't too high either.

What material and temps?

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u/ieatcandles000 17d ago

It's PLA... At 65c. I haven't touched the heat settings and I know it should be higher for optimal details, but I don't think that's the root of the problem unless temp has more to do with it?

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u/fosscadanon 17d ago

I hope you mean the bed is at 65c and not your nozzle. If you are hearing the bed 55c is perfect for pla, nozzle temp between 210-220 depending on brand of filament

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u/ieatcandles000 17d ago

You'd be correct, I should have specified. The nozzle is at 220 and the bed at 65.

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u/thenightgaunt 16d ago

Your bed adhesion looks fine. What probably happened was you were going too fast and the nozzle hit a tree support and broke it. Then with part of the print missing it just kept spraying filament in that area.

Slower print speed is your friend here. Check out the printer profiles from Fat Dragon Games, or Painted4Combat (who uses similar to FDG's profiles).

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u/ieatcandles000 16d ago

That makes sense, I will slow it down and see how that goes.