So I had my A1 mini for a while now and only printed plain white Bambu PLA Matte with it, which just worked. For a birthday present I bought this red PLA Basic from the company eSun. I used the Generic PLA Profile. When printing the first time, the model hat many weird strings coming of it and the printer also shot parts of the strings through the room. I tried looking it up and saw, that the box has “210 - 230 °C” for the printing temperature. I put that in a custom filament profile based on the generic PLA in min and max temp.
It definitly worked better but still not well. It also took almost twice the initial time. I have to admit, that I haven’t invested in a dryer yet, but I started printing right after taking it out of the box.
Do you have recommandations how to fix that? Do I just need a Dryer or is there something else I have to do?
I bought two spools of eSun PLA black on sale from Amazon a couple months back and no matter what I did it produced horrible results, I tried drying it, altered settings absolutely nothing worked, and that was on my X1C. I ended up returning both spools for a refund. I genuinely think it was just a bad batch as I’d not had these problems with eSun before.
Yeah I’ve been printing for two years, for the most part with PLA. I’ve never invested in a dryer, and for the most part I’ve never had any filament issues, even though I store my filament in the open in my somewhat humid basement. It does seem unlikely to me that PLA filament would absorb a so much moisture within a short amount of time, so I would think it was just from a bad batch of filament if I had none of these issues with other filaments. Don’t take my word for it though, I don’t have much experience with these kinds of issues.
Just put the spool in the cardboard box it came in, place the box on the hotbed and set the heating to 50 degrees for 12 hours. Poor man’s filament drying, but it works wonderfully.
Should work with the cardboard box the spool came in when it’s closed. There won’t be much air circulation to let the heat escape from the box. But I’ve never tested with a build plate smaller than a spool box though
High confidence that is just simple wet filament, which is an easy solve
The regularity of the stringies and their length though hint to me that Timelapse Is Enabled? If so, turn that off, and youll remove a long travel, which will remove an opportunity to generate a long string.
