It’s Monday and I’m back with the monster… I mean the TAZ 6.
I’m going to run a test with the temperature, going between 190c and 180c.
If it gives good results at 190: great! We’ll just run PLA prints at the low end of temperature. This could just be that it’s in an open area that often has other printers running around it. Maybe there’s some heat leaking.
If it gives good results at 180 or below: I’d be inclined towards a borked thermistor. This thread talks about a 100k thermistor, I’m assuming that’s its “rating” and what would be required. Looks like Lulzbot themselves don’t stock the thermistor anymore and we’d have to find a third party replacement…
…But going all of this keeps making me think back to “what if I have to go deep inside of it to fix it” and the worse thought, “what if I go deep inside of it to fix it and find out it was something so stupid all along”… I’m wondering if it’s just time to go in and really look at it, since adjusting all these other parameters doesn’t seem to be helping all too much.
This is how it’s looking even with the temperature at 180 and at half the normal speed.
I feel kind of dumb for bringing this up now, because maybe, just maybe, it’s something that should have been brought up earlier… but when the gears spin to retract while printing, there’s a pretty significant “clank” or “clunk” noise, like plastic on plastic… could this be an issue? Could this play (or what I’m assuming is play) lead to poor extrusion results?
Okay, I’m going to get back to fiddling with it…