There have been several suggestions for cleaning the bed.
Considering your proposals for IPA and soap, wouldn’t it be simpler to use a glass cleaner that degreases and leaves no residue? It is super cheap and easy to find.
I saw how did it happen - the toolhead just crashed the column and totally destroyed it.
Any ideas how can this be fixed? Model file is the same (didn’t change it).
According to an online article on Pitambari powder on a foodie website the name is a conbination of “pit” meaning brass and “tamb” meaning copper in Marathi and the founder says “It’s primarily a combination of dolomite powder, tamarind essence, and champaca flower extracts, but it also includes a few other secret ingredients that will… remain a secret.” Another source mentions sandalwood essence for a pleasant fragrance and “Its diamond edge cutting property gives fast cleaning effect.”
Thanks for mentioning it, I’ll probably add some to our household cleaning supplies.
A few weeks ago, I didn’t have any problems with this model.
I have run out of imagination as to what could be the reason. A bit hard to test this model, it’s 9 hrs of print every time.
Typically, curling is a result of material shrinkage during cool down from the Nozzle temp to the chamber temp. The larger the difference, the larger the shrinkage so warmer chamber temps should actually help (a little).
However, if the fan settings changed since your succesfull prints, that would be a reasonable explanation. Similarly, higher ambient temps previously may help explain why things worked in the past on this sensitive structure.
Other items to tweak for this problem are similar to PETG printing tips:
the infill, as the crossing infill in the video has tiny bumps which can be the initial disturbance. Use non-crossing infills such as Gyroid or Honeycomb on thin, tall structures.
the local layer height. With Adaptive layers you can not only improve the local resolution but also drastically reduce the thermal energy input, facilitating an even cool down and hence reduce curling. It is very effective as it is a volumetric effect. Keep in mind that left clicking on the layer height bar will decrease layer height while right clicking will increase it. So you can really fine tune it. A shame it can not be entered numerically (yet).
And of course as Jon mentioned, you only need to print the troublesome areas. The effective lever arm to the bed is shorter, but the break occured well above the line indicated by Jon. So it should work well for a test. Just keep a few centimeters of the base to reduce the heat bed procimity effect.
You can add modifiers to a part by right clicking, adding the modifier, moving and sizing it fit the volume you want to change and the changing quite few (but not all) print parameters by selecting the modifier in the objects. I think you’ll likely be fine with global infill changes here though.
Printed smaller version. When I heard the first thump I turned ‘cham’ fan to 100%. Before that 2 fans were 100%, cham was 80%. In this case smaller version was printed fine.
After that have changed Variable layers in the problematic zone, made the model with the same quolity and speed.
The “Aux” fan is what you want to change for additional cooling. It blows directly at the layer being printed. The “Cham” fan just exhausts the chamber air through the carbon filter and out of the printer.
You might try adding a modifier to the post so they print with more wall layers to make them a little stronger.