Worst print ever!!

Tony4597

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This is the worst looking print I have ever had. Of course over the last years I have produced my fair share of poor quality prints, all traceable to lamentable mistakes by the user ;):eek:

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Not sure what has caused this but while I have some thoughts anyone care to throw in some ideas

Printer Bambu P1S
0.4 nozzle
Filament Bone colour mnfctr unknown via Amazon
Uncalibrated filament using Bambu labs settings for their PLA
Speed ludicrous mode

I bought this filament to use to print a dinosaur head and stand and worked perfectly well on that project and on others including a grid infinity base (this is/was for the top).

Not worried about best quality and being an impatient so and so I did set the printer to Ludicrous mode. A mode that I have only flirted with in the past; I normally print standard mode.

After seeing the failure I printed again on Sunlu red PLA without issue, although I am not sure if I altered speeds

What do you think?
 

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Looks like damp or bad filament, which seems likely if the same part printed successfully with the the Sunlu.
 

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Thanks, damp poor filament my first thoughts as well. Perhaps a combination of factors including the silly speed (Bambu's Ludicrous mode 66% increase over normal).

Maybe the filament settings need looking at to optimise although printing at normal speed so far has produced acceptable prints i.e. using Bambu filament settings for their own brand.

Will probably give the faster modes mostly a miss and learn to have a little more patience :)
 

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Will probably give the faster modes mostly a miss and learn to have a little more patience :)
My Ender3-SE printers were printing at ridiculous speeds when I first got them, and with plenty of help from here got them down to a manageable speed, they did however print great at high speed but I still preferred the more normal slower speeds..:old
 

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This is the worst looking print I have ever had. Of course over the last years I have produced my fair share of poor quality prints, all traceable to lamentable mistakes by the user
Keeping your filament reasonably dry is the best way of getting perfect prints every time, I have printed with my filament at about 50% but there were times it slipped to 75% and the results were acceptable but not great..
It’s not hard to do now with all these new filament driers on the market today, but storage of used filament when not is use is also critical, this is where my rule of 50% comes in.. The lower the better..
You can start a print after you’ve put your filament into a drier at 50% or lower and have the drier lower the moisture as you go along, that how I print all my projects now, and this practice seems to work pretty well..
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