PETG filament stringing, poor infill, and layer delamination issues

Customer:

I haven’t used much PETG. I previously had cheap Chinese filament from Tianse that worked quite well without any problems. With your filament I’m having multiple issues, the biggest being: very poor and brittle infill, infill ghosting through the walls, delamination of individual layers on larger prints, and most significantly severe stringing - thin filament being thrown everywhere. I printed at 220 to 260 degrees with no major difference, though it printed slightly better at lower temperatures. I tried nozzles 0.2, 0.4, and 0.6 without success. I kept bed temperature around 60-70 degrees. I reduced print speed to 50% but without success. Regarding the stringing, I increased travel speed and increased retraction to 8mm but the plastic still drips from the nozzle and creates spaghetti. For the ghosting, I changed overlap to 8% and added 2 perimeter layers and at least managed to solve that. I’m trying to reduce the images and will send them to you.

Original message (Croatian)

Pozdrav, pet-g nisam puno koristio, imao sam od Tianse jeftini kineski filament koji se pokazao prilicno dobrim bez ikakvih problema. S vasim filamentom ubiti imam vise problema a najveci su: jako los i krhah infill , ghostanje infila preko zida, delaminacija pojedinih slojeva kod velikih prinotva ali najveci problem je veliko “stringanje” tj bacanje tankih niti svukuda. Printao sam s 220 do 260stupnjeva nije bilo neke velike razlike iako je malo bolje printalo s nizom temperaturom. Probao sam nozzle 0.2,0.4 i 0.6 bez uspijeha. Bed temperaturu sam drzao oko 60-70stupnjeva. Brzinu printa sam spustio na 50 posto al bezuspijesno. U vezi stringanja povecao sam brzinu travela i povecao retraction na 8mm ali plastika svejedno kapa iz nozzle i pravi spagete. Za ghosting sam promjenio overlap na 8 posto i dodao 2 rubna sloja i to sam barem uspio rijesiti. Pokusam smanjiti slike i posaljem vam.
Hvala i Lp
Marko

Datuma sri, 27. ožu 2019. 15:33 [name removed] (Support: e-radionica.com) <[email removed] piše:

Originally submitted via email support on 25 March 2019. Migrated to the forum for community visibility.

Customer:

I haven’t used much PETG. I previously had cheap Chinese filament from Tianse that worked quite well without any problems. With your filament I’m having multiple issues, the biggest being: very poor and brittle infill, infill ghosting through the walls, delamination of individual layers on larger prints, and most significantly severe stringing - thin filament being thrown everywhere. I printed at 220 to 260 degrees with no major difference, though it printed slightly better at lower temperatures. I tried nozzles 0.2, 0.4, and 0.6 without success. I kept bed temperature around 60-70 degrees. I reduced print speed to 50% but without success. Regarding the stringing, I increased travel speed and increased retraction to 8mm but the plastic still drips from the nozzle and creates spaghetti. For the ghosting, I changed overlap to 8% and added 2 perimeter layers and at least managed to solve that.

Original message (Croatian)

Datuma sri, 27. ožu 2019. 15:56 DJI CROATIA <[email removed] piše:

Pozdrav, pet-g nisam puno koristio, imao sam od Tianse jeftini kineski filament koji se pokazao prilicno dobrim bez ikakvih problema. S vasim filamentom ubiti imam vise problema a najveci su: jako los i krhah infill , ghostanje infila preko zida, delaminacija pojedinih slojeva kod velikih prinotva ali najveci problem je veliko “stringanje” tj bacanje tankih niti svukuda. Printao sam s 220 do 260stupnjeva nije bilo neke velike razlike iako je malo bolje printalo s nizom temperaturom. Probao sam nozzle 0.2,0.4 i 0.6 bez uspijeha. Bed temperaturu sam drzao oko 60-70stupnjeva. Brzinu printa sam spustio na 50 posto al bezuspijesno. U vezi stringanja povecao sam brzinu travela i povecao retraction na 8mm ali plastika svejedno kapa iz nozzle i pravi spagete. Za ghosting sam promjenio overlap na 8 posto i dodao 2 rubna sloja i to sam barem uspio rijesiti. Pokusam smanjiti slike i posaljem vam.
Hvala i Lp
Marko

Datuma sri, 27. ožu 2019. 15:33 [name removed] (Support: e-radionica.com) <[email removed] piše:

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Soldered Support:

We’re sorry about the issues. This really does look bad. We’ve had excellent results with this filament. There’s a similar discussion happening right now on Facebook - please check this topic: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1120093614745639/permalink/

Apply the settings according to the instructions in the comments. Do not reduce the print speed. Please try this and let us know.

Original message (Croatian)

žao mi je zbog problema, ovo stvarno izgleda loše. Kad nas su rezultati odlični. Slična rasprava je upravo na FB, molim Vas pogledajte ovaj topic: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1120093614745639/permalink/ /

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