Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 24, '15

Some great safety advice there, I fully agree. I personally always do this outside too as an extra precaution.

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 23, '15

Thanks for the feedback. I watched a few YouTube clips to learn the process. I have never dipped or had any physical contact with the acetone with my ventures. I use an old electric hotplate (camping one) and an old coffee peculator glass pot. I heat the glass pot gently and then add some acetone (n…

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 21, '15

well here is the orange PLA (faberdashery) the first one didn’t print too well using standard UP temperatures, I changed the print temp to 230, the under extruding problem seems to have gone now but its just not quite as sharp on the bottom of Marvs helpmeet, its the only place I notice it really, g…

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 21, '15

cool thanks for the tips, I think you should do that wiki page I actually have an old pump laying around from one of those old tubes you know you used to put the water in a glass vertical tube and plastic fish and it blew air in to make the plastic fish rise and sink… I might look at putting it to …

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 21, '15

I have tried the PP3DP forums but they are rarely used, so many questions go unanswered and have found it’s weeks before anyone does reply, also a lot of the material on there is old, that said I found the software mod there so am happy and there is some useful stuff there. :-)) At least I got a rep…

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 21, '15

Hi Simon, thanks for the help it is much appreciated, certainly didn’t mean to come across as disrespectful. I appreciate you taking the time to reply and help Thanks again

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 21, '15

I think your black marv looks spot on ! I have now run the OEM white Marv as uploaded lastnight and today the silver Marv with extra cooling and tweaking temperatures a bit, I’m really happy with them. I am as we speak printing off an orange PLA version again temperatures tweaked through the s/w mo…

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 21, '15

I looked at both hardware and software temp solutions, opted for the software one due to the level of customisation between layers too, the reason I printed with door open was because I have modded by board from the standard 50c to the 100c(but generally achieve 85-90c) so need to disperse that extr…

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 21, '15

It was the UP abs filament, 0.2, standard temp settings, minimum fill, support base only, with raft add support for 10 degrees or more 3 surface layers. i just found this youtube channel which seems great for material reviews so now in my favourites, he uses the up mini… maybe you can get a chea…

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

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Oct 20, '15

couldn’t wait till tomorrow !! So printed with the OEM white, door open, lid open and fan switch on and a USB fan blasting in (same as I do PLA) results phenomenal…well at least I think so I will now try the same with the non OEM silver and temp mod down to 230c and see if the outcome is as good …

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 20, '15

Thanks James, There is the option to print with doors open and a small desk fan blowing in there (the same as I do for PLA printing on this printer, having lowered temps with the software mod). I could also try a lower extrusion temp too. Also the print head has a selector for directing more air on…

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 20, '15

Thanks for the feedback, you’re correct this is not with UP! ABS (because its so damn expensive). I do however have some of the UP eom white ABS left so I will try with that tomorrow. I do have the temp software mod and lowered the temperatures a bit and they seemed to print a bit better on the bac…

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 20, '15

Thanks, was that with ABS or PLA ?

Marvins bottom half is not smooth

3D Printing

Oct 20, '15

up mini settings 0.2mm layers minimum fill and no support, cant configure many settings on the up mini. I did try treating them to an acetone vapour session to see if it made it look better, what do you think ? [IMG_6281_0.JPG] [IMG_6282_0.JPG] [IMG_6280_0.JPG] [IMG_6279_0.JPG]