Filament used is standard Elegoo PLA. White is freshly dried while Gray is not dried.
Let me preface this by saying I am a total noob when it comes to 3D printing and messing with their settings.
Anyway, my brother and I bought an A1 during the anniversary sale about a month and a half ago, and it’s been a lot of fun printing random things. However, our prints have always had some degree of fine stringing. It’s easy to clean up, but is very annoying.
I did run some of Orcaslicer’s calibration tests early on to see if calibrating our filament settings would help. But they just showed me that there wasn’t much (if any) improvement from the default Generic PLA settings, and oddly enough, the retraction test had little stringing on it at all (pictured above with undried gray PLA). So I kept the settings at default and chocked it up to our filament coming slightly moist.
Yesterday we finally got our hands on a filament dryer (Gratkit Firefly) and we dried a few of our spools in there throughout the day, with each spool getting 6 hours of dry time at 50 degrees. This morning I took out the freshly dried overnight white spool of PLA and ran some test prints and… Well you can see the results. Stringing is still there and prevalent, though it is a minor improvement.
I’m a bit at a loss and any advice would be appreciated.
I do also have a hardened steel nozzle on the way since I’ve heard that it can help with stringing. I will update the post once it arrives and I run some tests.
No change… I’ve scoured threads and tried recalibrating filament settings, turning off retract on layer change and wipe while retracting, increasing retraction, pretty much throwing the kitchen sink at this issue. I’m losing my mind here.
Set all your setting back to default, dry a spool for 12 hours at 53*.
Try the temp tower again. Pick which temp looks best, set your hotend temp with the SS Nozzle & print another Benchy.
what’s the air temperature where your printing.
i print out in my shed. when the air temp gets to 8 deg c, i start to get stringing.
when it gets below 3 deg c. the print job looks like a spiders web.
Oddly enough, that’s exactly what I did before printing my last temp tower with the SS nozzle. (Left tower in the update comment). Settings are always default as explained in the post.
The benchy in the photos is the presliced one on the SD card, which prints at a pretty high speed so maybe that’s part of why it’s wispy? That doesn’t explain my other prints though.
Did anyone resolve this? I’m having really bad stringing like spider webs in the past week or so. Doesn’t matter which filament type I use, its terrible. I havent changed any settings
I’m a few months late with this reply but the answer is no. Still the same stringing issues, and I’ve discovered that I’m having problems printing PETG too.
I started having the same issues and got a lot of the same advice that you did. I dried filament, switched to a hardened nozzle, messed with temps and other settings, etc. The one thing that seemed to work for several people was cleaning the gears in the extruder. Remove the filament cutter to gain access to the gears and blow it out with some air. I haven’t tried this yet but will within the next few days (I’m out of canned air). Just thought I’d throw that out there as I continue my search for a solution also.
