I have an Ankermake M5 that I hadn’t used in a while and recently got back to printing some stuff. I had a few prints come out well but then turned my extruder into a giant glob of melted plastic on an overnight print. I ended up just replacing the whole extruder as there’s been some revisions and I figured it would be nice to upgrade, and replace the v-wheels and all that.
The new extruder initially had a ton of problems with stringing, but increasing retraction fixed it. The problem that I can’t seem to figure out is curved surfaces are now sort of wavy. It’s regular - turning into vertical peaks and valleys. I’m doing a print currently with the speed turned way down, but the issue persists.
Any ideas?
Holy shit, that looks like a perfectly miscalibrated resonance compensation (Input Shaping). Can you recalibrate that?
Alternatively perhaps the belts are too tight or too loose.
I checked belts, they’re good.
I’m wondering if there is enough of a weight difference between the old and new extruder to have fouled the configuration.