Afternoon Everyone,
My first New 3D printer and it was a journey to get good results for printing.
Bed Adhesion and Bed Leveling was my first problems. Finally managed to get the leveling sorted by printing shims with various thicknesses.
From the pics attached, you can see my before and after bed leveling.
Then cleaning the bed with alcohol swabs after a couple of prints also helps… (None of this is in the manual 
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My last problem is the stringing. If I print retraction, heat and speed towers, they hVe little to no stringing. Adjust my profile with those settings, but then get alot of stringing with my actual prints….
Any advice. Using Cura 5.8.1
Have you a drier for your filament? I get stringing if mine is damp (not difficult in my really humid location) I run all my prints from a heated drier to avoid stringing. You could lower extrusion rate a few percentage and look at retraction distance/speed to see if that helps in lieu of a drier.
So the Blue Filament is actually a new roll I opened from a sealed package. This was the first print…
Currently my Flow rate in Cura is on 95%.
Will test it by lowering it.
EDIT
Retraction Distance = 4m
Retraction Speed = 50 mm/s
Thanx
Retraction distance is a little high for a direct drive, I have mine between 0.8mm and 1.0mm
Flowrate you could lower another 5-10% and might get an improvement. If I try to run the latest Creality Print I have to lower the flowrate to 75-80% to get good results.
Never rely on filament straight from the pack to be dry, there are many an instance I have read on all the forums of brand new filament that is wet. Try drying it.
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I think I found my problem…. It seems to be temp related.
I have ordered a filament dryer. Why I thought it cant be wet filament, is because the retraction towers print almost perfect…
So I started to do some of my own tests… and narrowed it down to printing temps…
Im now going to use this as my stringing tests for all new rolls…
@Bonfireman Thanx for all the help. It made me look at all aspects of my setup…
