Just goes to show that each filament has its own best settings.
Sunday 24 January 2021
A UniCoFil vase
Back in August, I did some more prints with the UniCoFil filament after replacing the heatbreak. It's possible that replacement wasn't necessary, but I will never know. Even after that, the stripping continued, though possibly not as often or as much. After printing out a failed hexagon vase that simply came apart at a layer that had stripped, I changed the filament settings to a) have a 1.0 extrusion multiplier, and b) extrude at 230°C. That eliminated the stripping, and I was able to print this nice small vase:
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