How to improve tolerances?

I’ve tried printing this several times with multiple filaments on my a1 and it just fails every time because they hinges end up fusing to the blocks and break when trying to loosen them.

My printer has never printed these tight tolerances well, but what can I do to help with this?

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If you haven’t thoroughly dried your filament, dry it. 24 hours, not 8. Wet filament will over extrude.

Also, edit the filament profile and taken a couple of 100ths off the flow rate value.

Even slight over extrusion will cause these kinds of tight clearance prints to fail.

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Thanks I’ll give it a try.

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Try just PLA & not a Silk or PETG. Also, they are 8 different sizes, which one are you trying to print…??

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I have a tri-color silk I want to use though (which should be possible since I see many other ppl in the reviews printing with this sort of filament successfully)

I was just suggesting to print it in PLA until you get a successful print.

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I calibrated everything and did manual flow rate and extrusion calibration, but then it just is really poor quality you can see the infill is getting all gloopy and sloppy looking. I’m not sure what to try next. Suggestions welcome

What temp are you printing at, I think you might be too hot.
Name & brand of filament…??

Just bambu labs two tone silk. Default print temp is 220

Well I can’t believe it but somehow I didn’t realize that I still had a 0.6mm nozzle in there, but I had the printer set to 0.4. once I changed that everything is printing fine. Sorry about the wild goose chase.

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Still good information, you weren’t the first to do this and clearly you won’t be the last.

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