I have a P1S.
A few months ago, I had a meltdown of my print head, not sure why. But BL promptly sent me a new nozzle. They didn’t need to though, as I had bought a hardened one for CF when I bought the printer, and so I put that one in, along with the hardened gears, etc.
The thing I loved most about the printer was that I didn’t have to leave clearances between pieces in my drawings. Everything fit with perfect tightness. PET parts complained a bit, but PETG were perfect. I printed a bunch of multi-piece objects, and they all tesselated perfectly.
However, after making the upgrades to CF-ready equivalents everything is a little too tight. PETG parts have to be filed down to fit, and sometimes still break, and PET is impossible.
I looked on the forums here and found lots of solutions, but nobody talked about an effect from changing the head, which I think would affect which solutions might be likely.
So if anybody can suggest some setting or alignment procedure to improve this situation, I would be extremely grateful. The printer is otherwise working just like before, which is to say flawlessly…
You changed the setting to an HS nozzle at the printer? Nozzle comes with Stainless .4mm nozzles and you need to toggle from stainless to HS at the printer. There was an issue a few months ago that prompted BL to change firmware because people were changing setting in BS only.
I do not mess with CF but have not seen much in the way of posts about fitment issues around fiber fiber filled material
No I did not–that sounds extremely promising. I’ll give it a try, THANKS!!!
Keep in mind, everything has manufacturing tolerances. The new nozzle could have a slightly larger oriface, the heater has more or less efficiency, or the thermistor has a different reading.
Out of curiosity did you calibrate the printer with the new nozzle in it? like said above, there could be a tolerance issue due to simple manufacturing parameters.
I don’t KNOW this to be the issue, but would have been my first thought if I were dealing with it myself.
The printer head reported as hardened steel both at the printer and in the software. I am running the basic calibration routine from the software right now. Is there some other calibration step to consider?
I will try some tests and report back. Thanks for the suggestions!!
Well, that did it. I am extremely happy that the machine came correctly calibrated from the factory. I did not realize this kind of fit was even possible with 3d printing, and I would not have thought to calibrate the machine when I got it…
Back to amazing prints! Thanks all!
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