{"id":1711,"date":"2016-07-03T05:18:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T05:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2016-07-03T05:18:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T05:18:50","slug":"noob-printing-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"noob printing issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Howdy all, Just picked up one of those super cheap Monoprice mini printers, got the bed all leveled and done a few test prints so far. The system comes with a few basic test files that you can print, a cat and a baby elephant. The cat prints no problem, but there is another one of a &#8220;baby elephant&#8221; that is really giving me some grief when the printer tries to print it. This is the file : http:\/\/ift.tt\/29m1PFF &#8211; it gets about 30% of the way through it and then explodes. I watched it just prior to it exploding, and what is happening is that the printer is getting really close to joining the 4 legs into the bottom of the body, and the head is crashing into the inner tips of the legs (it kind of looks like a triangle) and causing the legs to dislodge from the bed. It appears the filament is &#8220;warping\/curling&#8221; upward on the Z axis a bit, then solidifying. Every layer makes this worse until the head just knocks the leg over. Is this a filament temperature issue or.. ? I&#8217;m just using some regular white PLA at 220C or so. The file specifies 195C, so I tried that as well, same thing. http:\/\/ift.tt\/29fzDRD<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy all, Just picked up one of those super cheap Monoprice mini printers, got the bed all leveled and done a few test prints so far. The system comes with a few basic test files that you can print, a cat and a baby elephant. The cat prints no problem, but there is another one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=1711\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;noob printing issues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}