Last week I took the bait and bought some esun pla+ from an Amazon.de sale.

I normally print with Colorfabb of Prusament. Almost for 5y now and never had real issues, especially not with the Prusa Mini.

But now, I loaded a fresh rol and it just… was awful: under extrusion galore even in the first layer! A lot of clicking and clacking… just 😒

I read somewhere their filament comes “wet”… pretty convenient that they also sell… overpriced dryers right?!

Anyway I’m going to build a dryer now. Hoping that resolved the issues and this wasn’t all money wasted… sigh

Anyway I was wondering if someone else had the same issues? Or experience with this brand? How can you know that it’s dried enough? Or can it really only be with testing?

I’m investing in a mk4 soon, this has a direct drive, instead of a Bowden. Will this be less of an issue? I mean I know about the quality issues I was just thinking about that it seems like it just cannot pass properly, through … and I forgot how it’s named: the thingie that feeds the filament.

Anyway if anything: be cautious with that brand. I wish I had read some more before buying it, I trusted the reviews to much I guess

Anyway sorry for the long kinda rand post… it has been… a challenging week… 🤟

  • Gompje@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    /** For some reason I cannot reply to the more newer posts: This is for @solarbird (who is from kbin so maybe that is an issue atm? idk **/

    Thanks @solarbird!

    This must be the case then. and somehow this filament has more issues. It threw me off guard because the others where printing still very good. Therefore I blamed the one thing that has changed: the filament brand.

    Either way I have, per your recommendation, ordered some cleaning filament from esun. I will run that through and test again. I have ColorFabb coming this week to print the things for my client. And some other stuff in my backlog. Bit pressed for time, and cannot afford to have both printers out of commission. When that is out of the way I will test again for sure and cycle back here.

    Again: thanks for the recommendation of the cleaning filament. This will help us to get the Ender back up again to. My dad has printed with wood filament and I do not think he was able to clean it very well.

    I do not mind the disassembling things - in fact the opposite - but … time!.. that is another issue atm.

    • solarbird@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Yeah replies are being a little odd for me too, sometimes I can reply from mastodon sometimes I can’t, I can generally reply from kbin, but kbin is super-new so I kinda expect it to be kinda flakey for a while? but I like it’s interface and can be patient.

      Anyway, good luck!

    • PlasticExistence@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      If your nozzle was used to print wood filament and it wasn’t a hardened steel nozzle, that’s probably part of the issue. The nozzle will likely be trashed if it was a brass nozzle. Wood filled PLA is very abrasive.