MA70Snowman
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Joined: Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:11 pm

FlashForge Stringing after nozzle upgrade

I'm encountering a new problem after swapping out to new nozzles. Now ALL of my prints where there is any jump between open space i get a perfect line between these points. (the same lines you can see in the S3D software labeled 'travel moves') no matter what settings I change I am unable to make ANY change to those strings, they are literally the same size as spider webbing and all perfectly strung.

I had a number of problems prior to upgrading/replacing my nozzles, but stringing wasn't one of them. I followed the Print Quality troubleshooting guide to reduce stringing with no luck.

My retraction distance was moved from default 1mm all the way to ~10mm before it started retracting TOO far (that was a headache)
Retraction speed has been moved to 6000 mm/min w/ no luck
Temperature has been tried between 230-190 before it was getting too cold to feed filament.
Movement distance on my calibration block was no more than 5mm with strings between every layer consistently.


so I'm wondering what's next?

I have a PowerSpec 3d Pro 2 printer (essentially a Micro Center knock off of the Flash Forge)
if its relevant these are the nozzles I swapped out to:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GG ... UTF8&psc=1
CompoundCarl
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Joined: Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:23 am

Re: FlashForge Stringing after nozzle upgrade

Well, those retraction settings that you said you changed should make a big difference. For example, changing from 1mm to 10mm should have a very large affect. Changing the retraction speed by 50% is also quite large. And of course, that link also talks about coasting which I also think can help a lot. So if you really aren't seeing any changes even when adjusting all of those settings, I would start to worry about the nozzle you got..

Some nozzles just don't have good geometry and they are going to prone to more uncontrollable oozing. I don't know anything about the specific one that you got, but it's definitely a possibility
MA70Snowman
Posts: 8
Joined: Wed Nov 09, 2016 8:11 pm

Re: FlashForge Stringing after nozzle upgrade

Thanks for the input, i'll try playing w/ coasting and see if that affects anything.

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