Help refining the A0-100

Hello Caleb,

I too own an AO-100.

You’ve left out some useful information: do you use ABS or PLA? What temperature and on what surface do you print on? You mentioned hairspray, are you printing on bare glass? I printed that way for a time until I found out that the lower layers were shrinking. Now I print on PET tape with lulzjuice (ABS + acetone solution) and it works quite well. My parts’ outer dimensions are now quite good, but printed holes remain smaller than the 3D model.

My guess is your nozzle is a little clogged. See this topic:

When starting a print, I used to start heating up the nozzle and the bed at the same time. But since the nozzle is a lot quicker to reach its printing temperature, it would sit iddle for at least 10 minutes while the bed was reaching its temp. I think it’s the reason at some point I started having trouble. Now I first start to heat the bed, and only when it has reached about 90 degrees do I start to heat the hot end. I haven’t had more trouble since.

Nevermind the uncleanlyness of your bed, the picture quality is not good enough to see what the problem is. Can you zoom in on the printed part with better focus?