I have been using my A1 mini for a few weeks and it’s great.
But today I have tried printing a part and it just ends up in a mess. I have tried different PLA reels with same result
Any advise would be great
Welcome to the forum.
It’s not fun having prints fail. Can I ask how you are cleaning your print plate? Contamination of the plate is the most probable cause of adhesion issues.
You may also be better changing the support type to normal auto for propellers?
that are angled ?
Welcome! That is generally when the plate isn’t clean. Avoid touching the plate as the oils on your hands can stop the filament sticking. To sort this issue out, I would clean the bed with hot soapy water. Try this first and then come back to me.
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Thanks for the comments. Firstly I have not cleaned the bed yet as
I’ve
Only had it for a few weeks so I will give it a clean first
Second thanks for the advice on supports
This may help a little better can you see where the supports have reattached themselves on this model ? it could help explain the excess stringing on yours
Ok so I cleaned the bed. And I also found my nozzle to be covered in PLa. So I have spent ages cleaning that.
Tried another print and now this is happening
Also i noticed a lot of stringing still going on from the nozzle, is it time for a new nozzle? or is it the Filament?
try cleaning the plate with isopropil alcolhol
That almost looks like your nozzle is ripping it up.I personally would rerun the bed level calibration and if that doesn’t solve it I would maybe try adding alittle extra height to the z hop. I have mine set to 0.6. Because mine was knocking over parts of the print. I would also check while it’s printing to see if anything is hanging down and touching the print.
I had the blob issue on the hot end and followed the wiki instructions to clean it up. If you heat the hot end to the right temp for your filament (e.g., 250 C for PLA) the melted plastic sticks to a cotton cloth better than to the steel and wipes right off. Its the hard to reach nooks that are a challenge. I needed an Xacto #11 to pull away the plastic when a tweezers wouldn’t grab. It all seems to be working again. Used Elmers school glue stick to improve adhesion on a PEI bed. Boy did that stick! Now I’m going to try IPA to wipe the residue, but the test print well after cleaning the hot end.
Ok after cleaning last time it worked for two weeks. I set a print last
Night for three hours and I got a notification saying it was complete. I’m going to the printer I found this mess
I heated the nozzle to 300 and managed to get this main front off but does anyone have any ideas how to get the rest out
That’s almost a lost cause - there are super thin wires going to the thermal and fans that will probably rip out…
I would sub a ticket to support and cry a bit to see if they bite and send you free parts cough cough
Take a look at the A1 guides for hotend removal/changing to get an idea of what is behind that mess, and I would probably go low temp heat gun, hair dryer to warm the entire thing and GENTLY pick at it (trying not to catch those hair wires going to the fans etc you see in the support pictures)
But If this was me I would probably be ordering a new entire everything ouch…
Sorry to see this happened. clog nozzle? if you started it and it was laying down the 1st layer how did it jam up here? =(