Hello,
I’ve finally received my taz 5 and after assembling and leveling the bed (leveled with a digital dial indicator and it’s leveled +/- 0.01 mm) I can’t have a single good print.
I’m using Hatchbox 3.00mm PLA (bed temperature 55/60 C, extruder temperature 160/200 C) and I sliced mainly with lulzbot cura with default profiles, but I’ve tried with simplify 3D and Slic3r too.
All the results are quite horrible (even with a low expectation) but I can’t understand why they are so bad. I can’t believe that those are the average Taz 5 results.
My main issues are:
a very bad first layer
the rubbing of the extruder on the previous layer.
a popping sound from the extruder
I’ve run a lot of times the bed leveling print and looking at that print I think there is a right distance between the bed and the extruder.
That sounds like over extrusion to me. Have you calibrated your esteps and then extrusion multiplier for the filament you are using? When I print hatchbox pla on my ender 3 I print at 215c temps and my extrusion multiplier is around .95 if I remember correctly but it will be different depending on nozzle size.
This should give you a general idea for estep calibration
I’ve tried to calibrate the extruder a couple of time (can’t figure out why one day is ok and the next one is 2mm/1.80mm different). After that, using a polimaker PLA I’ve achieved a pretty good result trying to print benchy: