Hello everyone, pretty new to 3D printing in general. recently got the Ender 5 PRO and pretty much out of the box ( with bed levelling of course ) it worked like a dream with some blue Anet filament I had. Then I purchased this CC3D Silver Silk filament, and it's been nothing but a PITA. I've watched Dr Vax's video on stringing. tried his settings. I also through googling, found a few reddit posts. In fact, found one where Dr Vax responded to someone with a temp of 206,retraction of 6.5 at a speed of 25. That didn't really work. So started troubleshooting.
First off, it seems this filament NEEDS a higher temp to even benefit from the "silver" sheen, but even then, anything below 205 at the LOWEST has very poor adhesion. After a bunch of small pyramid tests and tweaking all sorts of settings from combing to coasting. I thought I had something good at 206 retraction of 4 speed 40 ( travel speed 240, printing speed 60 ), pyramids came out "fairly" clean, the "Tiny tester" building I had found on thingiverse came out clean with almost no strings... so I printed something "real" ... and that was a giant fail... all sorts on unsticky layers and reflected my earliest tests with this filament when I was getting poor adhesion... so back to the drawing board ... I've found the Retraction calibration site someone posted here so I'm running that at 210 and 215. and I'll see what that gives...
Just not sure if anyone hsa experience with specifically the SILVER CC3D ( seems lots of people have used the gold and copper ) and how finicky it can be...
First off, it seems this filament NEEDS a higher temp to even benefit from the "silver" sheen, but even then, anything below 205 at the LOWEST has very poor adhesion. After a bunch of small pyramid tests and tweaking all sorts of settings from combing to coasting. I thought I had something good at 206 retraction of 4 speed 40 ( travel speed 240, printing speed 60 ), pyramids came out "fairly" clean, the "Tiny tester" building I had found on thingiverse came out clean with almost no strings... so I printed something "real" ... and that was a giant fail... all sorts on unsticky layers and reflected my earliest tests with this filament when I was getting poor adhesion... so back to the drawing board ... I've found the Retraction calibration site someone posted here so I'm running that at 210 and 215. and I'll see what that gives...
Just not sure if anyone hsa experience with specifically the SILVER CC3D ( seems lots of people have used the gold and copper ) and how finicky it can be...
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