Inconsistent squish across bed
If you take a look at the video, you can see that at (0,0) I am getting pretty good (maybe even too good) squish on my skirt/prime line, but on the other side of the bed (460,0) the skirt is now 2 distinct lines (measuring 0.31mm each) that have poor bed adhesion. Am I wrong that a correctly calculated bed mesh is the only answer to this? I dont have thumbwheels to adjust bed height on this VC3 like I do my Ender 3. I am printing PETG at 250 deg with an 85 deg bed temp per manufacturers advise. If I print more than a handful of layers, things go to hell pretty quickly.
This entire VC3 project has not been as productive or satisfying as I had hoped. I am not sure if there is a fundamental alignment flaw at the core of my printer or something else is going on. Maybe my slicer settings just suck. I am happy I was able to assemble this to a point where it actually spews filament to bed, but this last 10% of getting something that prints accurately and reliably is starting to make me want a Bamboo or Prusa. I need a clinic. I dont even want fast prints, slow and reliable is fine.
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and after screwing with it mildly... I just had a good print... all it has to do is the exact same thing when I hit the restart button...
it is printing very well right now which is both pleasing me and pissing me off.
just had the bed ram into my hotend after pressing restart for a 4th print. Something sketchy with my rear Z motor perhaps.