That indicates a thermistor not really rated past 110 there with the bed heater. Need to see what we actually can do…maybe reach out to their tech people and see if we can do a firmware mod or help me work on an official mod to let us do 120 deg C instead of just 100-110. At an enclosure temp of 40-60 deg C, Nozzle temp of 300, bed temp of 120, and a print speed of 400 mm/s for infill and walls, you get magic even if it’s not, “pretty,”
For those just tuning in that might not be gear-heads and printer-heads, it means that the cheapest printer to be able to print a Superplastic (As in Aluminum/long fiber CF replacement…) is the Ender3v3 and Ender3v3 Plus.
My Qidi Xplus3 bed is rated to <= 120°C so I shall investigate the thermistor on that. I shall also check out my Ender 5 plus as I am sure I have had that to 120°C when I was still using the glass bed.
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I leave the dryer lid opened while printing. I print at very low speeds and try not to go into the room to avoid creating a draft. But even this does not guarantee success.
An enclosure of some sort, even the “zipper bag” that Creality sells (Like This…) is going to actually allow you success in ABS, ASA, Nylon, and Polycarbonate. And, yes, you CAN print it with your Ender 3V3 Core XZ model. I’m doing it as I type this. So far, PC, Nylon, and TPU, something that my tricked out V2 couldn’t do because I’d not put a direct drive extruder on it yet…
Success comes from understanding the materials you’re printing with, more than anything else.
With Nylon and PC, you will need a bit more help under at least some of the cases with those two. Migigoo and Vision Miners NanoAdhesive are suggested there… There’s only so much that PEI brings to the table.
The fun thing is that while my V2 was the little printer that could- it only got there from mods. The V3 CoreXZ is the little printer that could…right out of the box.
Bought mine when I torched off both my X and Y steppers trying to stage up for printing Tullomer. I doubt there will be the needed Bed Mod to get temps to 120. That’s okay…I’ll keep this little gem and resurrect the V2 so I can manage to print Tullomer.
As an off-topic aside…the part I prototyped for the wheelchair failed after one solid day’s worth of use. Got a LOT of useful info as it actually fractured at the design weakness from the original design. I have a Mk2 that will be printed in PC-CF for the short-term fix as I wait for a milled part to come in for around Christmas time…
Right now I’m printing some replacement parts including some of the hinge bearing parts in PA6 (Nylon…)