Printing Hatchbox PLA issues

compman2 · September 2018

So I printed quite a few objects with the included filament. I had good bed adhesion and could print with only a skirt. 205/60-55 with 8mm retraction.

I ran through the included filament and started a spool of hatchbox PLA that I thought would be higher quality. I am having serious bed adhesion issues with the same settings. I have had no success without a significant brim. Even the brim starts to curl. I have lowered temps to 195/ 55-50 same retraction settings. The hatchbox has a lower suggested temperature range. If I get past the first few layers the print will succeed.

Anyone else have experience with hatchbox?

I have also releveled the bed using mesh. I am running the community firmware.

DaHai · September 2018

I find that its usually better to increase the first layer nozzle temperature if I'm having problems with bed adhesion.
I would suggest trying 210-220c for the nozzle and 60-65c for the bed at 20-25mm/s for the first layer
Hope this helps.

compman2 · September 2018

I started with those settings and had prints warp after being on the bed for a while. Somewhere I read if you are having warping problems with pla most likely your bed is to hot.

Samuel Pinches · September 2018

Please have a look on the wiki and check all of the following tips:
https://jgaurorawiki.com/a5/bed-adhesion

Sometimes particular colours just have problems too, but I have always had success with the steps above.

compman2 · October 2018

Problem solved. 1st problem I was cleaning the bed with windex and that caused adhesion issues. 2nd problem I lost the mesh load out of my start gcode. I cleaned the bed with dish soap and water and added the M420 S1 command in start gcode after G28. All is now well.

Printing Hatchbox PLA issues

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