I'm a bit stumped, and am looking for advice. I have an extremely old (Circa 2015) Craftbot Plus. It's hardly any parts of the original unit, kept alive with custom parts out of just spite. I use cura as my slicer, and it works fine for my needs. Recently, my kids have wanted to print custom keycaps. This is a difficult FDM print to begin with, and my old hardware isn't doing me any favors; it might be impossible. That being said, my prints turn out good, except for the tiny details in the actual stem. The picture is attached of various settings; I've tried a ton of stuff. I can share a cura profile, but the gist is I'm printing in PLA and have experimented with 195-210 degrees, .1mm layer height, line widths between .175-.2mm, various speeds, minimum speed and minimum layer duration, I've disabled ironing, and I've played with retraction. I'm kind of stumped, and am wondering if anyone has things I should try.

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[–] [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yea, I've adjusted it down a bunch, but I think I bottomed out at 90%; do you think I should go lower?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I'll second the other comment, Ellis's guide is where I learned the trick above from. 90% sounds like it's pretty low but I've had filaments and nozzles require as low as 83% for adequate results.

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