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Basic Tips and Advice
Please experiment with your extrusion multiplier to achieve the same weights as in the list.
HotEnd temperature is very important
for a strong result. The reason is the plastic leaving
the nozzle has to melt the previous layer to create solid joint. Please try increasing the tem-
perature to find the best value (215° up to 260° Celsius).
Turn OFF cooling fan
(Heatbreak
fan of course has to be left ON). Thin walls easily cools down on its own and the cooling fan
worsens the layer bonding. You can use cooling fan for thick parts if needed...
Heated bed is very recommended, use 50-56° Celsius to print without warping ends.
Any standard quality PLA is suitable to print our planes, but the result depends on combina-
tion of PLA vs. Extruder vs. HotEnd.
Some colors and brands of filament has lower layer adhesion, please do experiment with it.
There are a lot of 3dprinters on the market, most of them are OK for printing our aircraft
(specific thin wall printing...) with sufficient volume, heated bed, 0.4 mm nozzle.
Please look at
for further information:
RCGroups 3Dprinted planes Forum
Some advice for rubberlike fillament print-
ing (printable tyre): it is a good IDEA to
use some adhesive tape or foil... first layer
bonding could be too strong or on the
other hand too weak depends what fila-
ment is used... (picture:RubberJet - TPE32
245/30 print temperature)
After printed, heat up bed to 80
Celsius
and remove tape along with printed tyre,
clear the bed with isopropylalcohol...
