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Hi all, I have bought a second hand Creality Ender 5 pro. So far so good. I checked the belts, tightened the bolts (where needed) and successfully ran it for a week before deciding "you know what this printer needs? Klipper firmware." So off I went and installed Klipper.

Ran though all the requisite calibrations, so now the extruder extrudes 50 mm (+/- about 0.2mm) when I ask it to, my calibration cubes measure exactly 20 x 20 x 20 mm with less than 0.1mm deviation. PID tuning for hot end and the bed. But the stringing. The stringing!

The filament is 3DJake ecoPLA that I opened two weeks ago.

See picture attached (and apologies for miswriting the ^2, I had misremembered). Temperature, retraction, it doesn't matter. With stock firmware the retraction worked well at around 4.5mm retraction at 40mm/s. I can't get the stringing to stop here at like 80mm/s and 8mm of retraction and I am at my wits end.

I would greatly appreciate any pointers you guys might have for me!

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[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have z hop on? If yes, try lowering it a bit. Going from 0.4 to 0.2 helped me a lot.

[–] Zsub@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I have it on, but already at 0.2. I did try a print with it disabled and made no perceivable difference.