/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1352090
>finish assembling printer in august 2017
>buy a roll of opaque white PETG
>everything I print with it ends up looking like garbage, weak to the point of crumbling and with either over or under extrusion
>buy PLA, forget about that roll of white PETG, thinking it is just trash
>still garbage but not so much
>march, 2018
>start designing another printer, do a bunch of changes to current one to make it work a little better (calibrate e-steps, make the bowden tube half as short)
>the underextrusion on small islands is gone because bowden is shorter
>decide to give that white roll of PETG a try
>print at 245ºC because found out that seems to be the sweet spot for PETG, not 232º like I was doing in the beginning
>prints as good as other clear and translucent PETG rolls I tested before
>parts are extremelly solid, better than my ABS prints

I'm doing this for 5 months and only now I'm getting it right