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I got a magnetic bed. The first five PLA prints were great but now it will not stick to it.

Any suggestions about getting it to stick or do I just go back to Kapton Tape. The head height is still good.

I know I could print a raft but there may be a way of doing it without a raft.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Square-Dura ... 2749.l2649

Clean the Bed with rubbing alcohol at lease 70% for better to get any residues removed.

It could make it easier to diagnose the problem if you could post a photo or video of the failed print.
There is so many that could make the 3D Print first layer fail.

Post the filament type an your slicers settings Temps, Print Speed, layer thickness ect...

Oh raft is awful, you shouldn't need that.

That price seems too good to be true, honestly....not seeing it includes PEI coating?

Roberts_Clif wrote: ↑July 16th, 2019, 9:29 am Clean the Bed with rubbing alcohol at lease 70% for better to get any residues removed.

It could make it easier to diagnose the problem if you could post a photo or video of the failed print.
There is so many that could make the 3D Print first layer fail.

Post the filament type an your slicers settings Temps, Print Speed, layer thickness ect...

I'll go and buy some rubing alcohol but will put some photos etc up tomorrow.

Thanks

Roberts_Clif

I could only get Isocol rubbing alcohol but it does not say the percentage on the bottle.

That made PLA work great but PETG did the skirt good but the print came off. Then I noticed you mentioned print speed so reduced a few speed settings to 20 and it prints great. I had the speed settings right last week but loaded something and lost them. After all these years I just worked out how to save a profile in Cura and using 4.1.0. So looks like when I get figures right I can save some profiles to use.

So I have it printing good now at too slow a speed. Are there and standard profiles that I can use with the right Temps, Print Speed, layer thickness? I am using a Cocoom Create/ Wanhao Duplicator i3 V2.

I can sort out Tempreature from all the information around.

I need information on Print Speed like:
Print Speed
Infill Speed
Wall Speed
Outer Wall Speed
Inner Wall Speed
Top/Bottom Speed
Travel Speed
Initial Layer Speed
Initial Layer Print Speed
Initial Layer Travel Speed
Skirt/Brim Speed
Maximium Z Speed
Number of Slower Layers

I do not know much about Layer Thickness yet but will see if I can find it in Cura.

Any assistance would be of great help from anyone.

Col

LePaul wrote: ↑July 16th, 2019, 9:44 am Oh raft is awful, you shouldn't need that.

That price seems too good to be true, honestly....not seeing it includes PEI coating?

I have printed six of the same item and the surface is still great.

Really happy with it now I have the rubbing alcohol and doing a bit slower print.

I tried it .... it really worked

Sorry I did not see your comment back in July last year.

After a few prints it still did not stick properly on the magnetic bed so I have put on top of it the yellow film and watered down PVA glue.

There must be an easier way.