[quote=“EmracingDK”]Hello Christian, I am now using Cura slicer in Repetier Host 1.0.6 and uploaded your settings.
I have a few questions:
The speed you have in the settings, is that ok 30 slow and 60 fast?
Infill only set to 15% is that what you normally use?
How thin a layer can this printer manage - 0,1 mm right? I am asking because there is a setting for 0.05 mm layer thickness.
Writting this, while I wait for my treefrog testprint to finish up 
/Peter[/quote]
Hi Peter,
For my machine this is almost perfect. I can go som steps higher in speed on bigh parts as well.
Therefore i have a modified axis drive with 16teeth GT2 pulleys and a e3d v6 with volcano kit.
The speed settings should work for you as well i think.
Just experimet a bit. You can adjust the speed between min and max with the slider on the cura slicer tab.
The infill i use depends on the object. If it needs to be very rigid, i use up to 100%.
But many “decorative” objects need no infill.
I did some experiments with layer heights to find out what is possible. Thats where that setting is from.
I didn’t have the time to print a full run at 0.05mm layers, but with the e3d v6 this looks like it will work also.
I actually printet something in 0,05 mm last night, PLA at 215 degrees. I took forever but looked really nice
ABS however is a completely different story. I tried several temperature settings, but something always went wrong.
The filament wouln’t be extrudet, just got grinded in the extruder, leaving marks on the filament. This caused me to raise the temperature, but hitting 270 made the board reset. So now I have black ABS stuck in my nozzle, and then I decided to quit and go to bed 
Any ideas what to do???
/Peter
[quote=“EmracingDK”]I actually printet something in 0,05 mm last night, PLA at 215 degrees. I took forever but looked really nice
ABS however is a completely different story. I tried several temperature settings, but something always went wrong.
The filament wouln’t be extrudet, just got grinded in the extruder, leaving marks on the filament. This caused me to raise the temperature, but hitting 270 made the board reset. So now I have black ABS stuck in my nozzle, and then I decided to quit and go to bed
Any ideas what to do???
/Peter[/quote]
What hotend do you use?
The new E3D v6.
It was great on PLA, but ABS is something else.
Do you know what I can do about the reset on the K8200? Seems like it wont allow me to raise the temperature to 270.
/Peter
[quote=“EmracingDK”]The new E3D v6.
It was great on PLA, but ABS is something else.
Do you know what I can do about the reset on the K8200? Seems like it wont allow me to raise the temperature to 270.
/Peter[/quote]
You definately not need such high temps for ABS.
239-240°c should be way enough!
Look at your retraction settings.
The retraction lengts shouldn’t be more than 1.5mm with the e3d.
Also make sure the cooling fan for the heatbreak is ALWAYS on until the hotend is completely cooled down.
Try heating the hotend to about 250°c and push the filament through manually. That should clear the jam.
Ok, will do that when I get home.
So you think the extruder pushes the filament to fast thru the nozzle, which makes it grind the filament instead of leading it slowly thru the nozzle?
I have the cooling fan on all the time right now.
Gonna get some cleaning filament soon, maybe that would be usefull to have.
/Peter
[quote=“EmracingDK”]Ok, will do that when I get home.
So you think the extruder pushes the filament to fast thru the nozzle, which makes it grind the filament instead of leading it slowly thru the nozzle?
I have the cooling fan on all the time right now.
Gonna get some cleaning filament soon, maybe that would be usefull to have.
/Peter[/quote]
Can be that you extrude too fast, depends on your print speed and layer height.
Better leave those “cleaning” filaments alone!
The make things worse most times!
What color of ABS do you print?
Black or dark colored are often impure.
It was in fact black ABS I used.
I set the layer hight to 0,2 mm and used your settings in CURA, I used the same settings for PLA and ABS except the bed and Nozzle temperature.
/Peter
Just wanted to let you know that I got ABS running with really good results now. This E3D v6 hotend makes a world of difference when printing.
Next project will be this:
reprap.me/diamond-hotend.html/
/Peter
