ABS is such a pain to print with, even after all the upgrades I’ve done. I still have the majority of the roll I started with. I’ll probably never get through it.
Once I get my printer fixed I’m sticking with PLA for a good while.
Yeah, PLA prints very easily compared to ABS. I was also struggling a lot when I started using it for the Voron parts.
Worked out pretty well with a cardboard box as enclosure though. Just barely 40°C but that was enough to keep the prints on the plate.
The Voron prints ABS with absolutely no issues. PLA was a pain at first due to heat creep but I swapped to a different hotend and now PLA also prints like a charm.
Once I get my printer fixed I’m sticking with PLA for a good while.
I have an enclosure for mine, still never was able to print it very well. Probably mostly because of how hot ABS needs the nozzle to be. It seems that 260 is a big ask for my printer even with the all metal hot end.
Out of interest, what’s broken on your Ender?
It’s underextruding, but only on every nth layer, with a small bit of variance.
I’ve tried replacing the hot end, nozzle, the top half of the extruder, calibrating the extruder, using a different slicer, different filament, different slicer settings.
This time around I’m just done trying to fix it, so I’m probably gonna drop it off at a local repair shop to see if they can figure it out. From what I’ve told them, they think the extruder motor is dying. And maybe they’re right, but I just don’t have the time right now to troubleshoot it further myself.
ABS is such a pain to print with, even after all the upgrades I’ve done. I still have the majority of the roll I started with. I’ll probably never get through it.
Once I get my printer fixed I’m sticking with PLA for a good while.
Yeah, PLA prints very easily compared to ABS. I was also struggling a lot when I started using it for the Voron parts.
Worked out pretty well with a cardboard box as enclosure though. Just barely 40°C but that was enough to keep the prints on the plate.
The Voron prints ABS with absolutely no issues. PLA was a pain at first due to heat creep but I swapped to a different hotend and now PLA also prints like a charm.
Out of interest, what’s broken on your Ender?
I have an enclosure for mine, still never was able to print it very well. Probably mostly because of how hot ABS needs the nozzle to be. It seems that 260 is a big ask for my printer even with the all metal hot end.
It’s underextruding, but only on every nth layer, with a small bit of variance.
I’ve tried replacing the hot end, nozzle, the top half of the extruder, calibrating the extruder, using a different slicer, different filament, different slicer settings.
This time around I’m just done trying to fix it, so I’m probably gonna drop it off at a local repair shop to see if they can figure it out. From what I’ve told them, they think the extruder motor is dying. And maybe they’re right, but I just don’t have the time right now to troubleshoot it further myself.