This is a Prusa MINI+ that has worked flawlessly for 3 months. Suddenly the prints won’t stick to the bed, the first layer is all messy and I cancel the print before anything worse happens.
- The printer has auto bed leveling so I would rule that out.
- The plate is cleaned with 70% IPA, so it’s not dirty either.
- I have tried to adjust the “Live Z Adjust” while printing that first layer, but no setting works well.
- Each filament is printed at recommended temps (+/- 215C) and bed is at 60C.
- Out of my 5 spools, only 1 works well: RepRapper 3-color PLA. Even the Prusament PLA fails to stick well, and also eSun PLA+, and eSun matte PLA, and Tinmorry TPU.
https://i.imgur.com/MEpK37W.png
Update:
- Thank you all for your kind input.
- I washed the plate, and cleaned the nozzle (have no spare nozzle).
- I also did a fresh Z-test (with this object) using Prusament galaxy silver PLA.
- That was successful and showed that my height was already very close to perfect.
- Z-test result shows that -1.425 is best. I was off by only 0.025. Image
- Started printing an object with eSun matte black PLA but the result was same as in my original photo.
- Changed back to the Prusament galaxy silver PLA and the result is perfect. (image)
So it looks like my filament storage is not up to snuff! Good thing that I only have a few spools, so not much is lost.
And if that doesn’t work, use pure acetone (warning, this idea puts knots in peoples panties - frankly it’s fine to do if you don’t make a habit of it) or try a gluestick (the specialized ones for 3d printing are worth it, don’t steal your kids art supplies)
Use pure acetone only if you know with 100% certainty that it won’t eat whatever polymer your build plate is coated with. You don’t have to worry if you use a glass build plate, though.
It does eat the pei sheets a bit, but that’s good to even out tiny marks and dings in the sheet. Like the previous poster said. It’s fine to do once in a while to refresh the surface, spring steel sheets are consumables anyway.
For PEI