Trying to do first print, prints look blobby and thin

[LAGR]

I've been trying to fit the fan shroud but I just cant seem to get a solid first layer. My first layer keeps looking weird and blobby, any ideas?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yi9n8qbg62ffs ... 4.jpg?dl=0

[nitewatchman]

I think that this may as a simple as lowering your z zero closer to the build plate. You can also increase the thickness of your first layer in your slicer. If you can get a good first layer down the rest is easy.

nitewatchman

[LAGR]

I've tried lowering the z incrementally down to the point where it was just tracing the shape in the glue and it didn't seem to help, I'll try the adjusting in the firmware

[Tincho85]

Hi, please share:
material
print speed
temperature, both hotend and bed.

For me, dark colors of ABS needs 245ºc or more. I'm using an E3D v5. For natural ABS 220ºc is fine.

[LAGR]

Black ABS (from sainsmart)
HOTEND 235
Bed 80
Speeds (whatever the defaults are in matter control I'll be home in like half an hour to check)

I have a Prometheus v2 in the mail because I've been hearing an all metal hotend should be your first upgrade

[LAGR]

My local home depot has makerbot abs, I might run over and see if they have any natural filament

Edit: home dept only had PLA so I went to a local component electronics store (Vetco if you're in the seattle area go there, they're awesome) and it turned out that my blac ABS just wasnt extruding properly, the yellow i picked up seems to be doing great.

[Tincho85]

I bet it was a temperature issue. I'm glad that it's working with the yellow filament.
If you do try that black one again, raise the temperature 5ºc and see if it gets better.

[LAGR]

yeah it definitely was, i've been doing a few prints and they're turning out fine (not great but I also haven't done much calibration so it's entirely my fault). I got kinda scared about bumping the extruder to 240 because of it only being rated to go to 247 so I'll just wait till my prometheus is on to print the black filament.