I tried 3d print glue stick. washing with alcohol. wash the nozzle, cold pull, higher bed temperature... nothing,
the i has 3 successful prints with the same file, and now for the life of me I can't get it to work
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I had similar issues not too long ago and washing the plate with soap and warm water did the trick. .Made sure it dried for a day too just in case.
Why does this work?
Or, more precisely: Why does the dirty plate cause this balling-up?
Far as I know, it's mostly due to the oils from your skin creating a layer on the build plate that, essentially, lube it up. So while the build plate can look clean, it most definitely isn't. The cleaning of the plate is more so to remove the oils than anything else.
Ah, so the object slides a very little bit, causing printed filament to be in a spot where there should be none yet, which produces a tiny hill that might even slide another quarter a millimetre and gather even more filament on top of it, at which point the object to be printed touches the extruder?
Yes? But also like...the extruder is pooping onto a sheet of what is now ice, depositing it in a place it now refuses to stay. As it changes direction, the extruder can run into the loose filament, sticking it to the extruder, expanding upon the surface area of what is now hot metal and plastic for the extruded filament to stick to.