P1S rapidly getting worse and worse

I was just going there when you already posted. :grin:

@user_2799552445 If this is how your print looks in one corner:

And this is how it looks in another:

That is a classic dirty plate issue. Don’t rely on IPA to clean your plate. If your printer was truly failing, it would be uniform across the plate. Also, did you try another filament to see if the results are the same? In addition, if a model fails to stick, have you tried repositioning it elsewhere on the build plate? If you have contamination, it would be obvious because you will see widely different layer adhesion depending on the level of contamination.

Take dish washing soap, smear it on the plate evenly and then using the hottest water out of the tap - not boiling - rinse off and repeat.

Refer to this post a while back for a case-study.

The reason why dish soap is so effective compared to IPA is twofold. While IPA is decent—I use it myself—it evaporates quickly, and unless you’re drowning your plate, it’s unlikely that you’re actually picking up any oils. More likely, you’re just smearing them around. This is particularly true on textured PEI, where one can’t see fingerprints as easily as on a non-textured surface. Dish soap, on the other hand, has glycerin in it, which creates a ‘sheeting’ action that floats away any contaminants. It is also a very good degreasing agent, as anyone who washes dishes with their bare hands soon finds out when their hands start to dry out.

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