LOL. Thanks. The skirt is still printing. I just checked on it and it is over 60 hours in and looking good. Printing these spheres to stick on it is becoming a chore. 🙂
Thank you. I'll be pushing out more of them. I just made one on the X Axis setup that I haven't posed yet. Basically, when you install the X motor, look down the x guide rail to make sure the top of the gear on the motor is aligned with the rail so that the belt doesn't rub. The gear will slide up and down on the motor shaft until you tighten the hex nuts. Also the shaft has a flat side so make sure one of the hex nuts is tightened against that. It is easier to do during assembly than it is to correct later... trust me. 🙂
@@LanchburyConsultingLLC oh i hope this goes well lol. i'm coming from a bambu so i hope its not too much of a jump in terms of complexity. how fast have you been able to push the unit? speed and volumetric
@@joseph_n I had it up to 150% using PLA+. Once this skirt is done I'll experiment with some faster speeds on some 1 day parts. I'll keep everyone informed on how it goes.
@@joseph_n I should probably do the same thing. I keep the printer in my gym (so finally I can tell people I'm using my gym after 11 years!) and it is attached to the garage with a small AC unit. It is probably the warmest and most humid room in the house.
Hey man long time no speak! Love what you’ve been printing can’t wait to see this dalek completed! Did have a quick question, do you know how to reset the z offset without leveling the printer? Had my extruder tear the printer apart and finally got around to replacing it and my nozzle is getting smashed against the build plate
If you replaced the nozzle or print head then do the auto-level, then just print a test cube and so the manual z-offset adjustment on the fly. The only way I've found to adjust the z is during a print, so I either do it while it prints a raft, or I tell the slicer to do a skirt and I then use my finger so see if it feels "squished" enough to the bed.
I just had a ceramic nozzle delivered. They're supposed to be better (I think they allow cold nozzle swap). At some point I might load it up with a 0.4mm nozzle and test it.
@@LanchburyConsultingLLC you wouldn’t happen to have a vid of your z stops? Seems like mine aren’t functioning properly, they’re registering in the screen but when I go to level the bed doesn’t stop once it breaks the beam and keeps going and hitting the nozzle
@@pizzanik Damn, I just headed off to work so I can't film them. There is a brief video of the Z-Stops in the construction playlist. I know I had to tighten the screw on the stops to the maximum when I did the z-stop calibration, and that left about an inch of clearance from when it homed and the end of the nozzle. Then, when the printing started the bed would rise higher and I had to set about -4.1 on the z-offset to raise the bed more in order for the first line to squish onto the glass.
This is insane. Best of luck with this project!
LOL. Thanks. The skirt is still printing. I just checked on it and it is over 60 hours in and looking good. Printing these spheres to stick on it is becoming a chore. 🙂
just bought one! Your videos will be quite helpful for trouble shooting
Thank you. I'll be pushing out more of them. I just made one on the X Axis setup that I haven't posed yet. Basically, when you install the X motor, look down the x guide rail to make sure the top of the gear on the motor is aligned with the rail so that the belt doesn't rub. The gear will slide up and down on the motor shaft until you tighten the hex nuts. Also the shaft has a flat side so make sure one of the hex nuts is tightened against that. It is easier to do during assembly than it is to correct later... trust me. 🙂
@@LanchburyConsultingLLC oh i hope this goes well lol. i'm coming from a bambu so i hope its not too much of a jump in terms of complexity. how fast have you been able to push the unit? speed and volumetric
@@joseph_n I had it up to 150% using PLA+. Once this skirt is done I'll experiment with some faster speeds on some 1 day parts. I'll keep everyone informed on how it goes.
@@LanchburyConsultingLLC I was thinking of just using petg so I don't have to worry too much about humidity
@@joseph_n I should probably do the same thing. I keep the printer in my gym (so finally I can tell people I'm using my gym after 11 years!) and it is attached to the garage with a small AC unit. It is probably the warmest and most humid room in the house.
Looks great so far
Hey man long time no speak! Love what you’ve been printing can’t wait to see this dalek completed! Did have a quick question, do you know how to reset the z offset without leveling the printer? Had my extruder tear the printer apart and finally got around to replacing it and my nozzle is getting smashed against the build plate
If you replaced the nozzle or print head then do the auto-level, then just print a test cube and so the manual z-offset adjustment on the fly. The only way I've found to adjust the z is during a print, so I either do it while it prints a raft, or I tell the slicer to do a skirt and I then use my finger so see if it feels "squished" enough to the bed.
I just had a ceramic nozzle delivered. They're supposed to be better (I think they allow cold nozzle swap). At some point I might load it up with a 0.4mm nozzle and test it.
@@LanchburyConsultingLLC Yea auto level is slamming right into the print head so Im gonna have to sort that out.
@@LanchburyConsultingLLC you wouldn’t happen to have a vid of your z stops? Seems like mine aren’t functioning properly, they’re registering in the screen but when I go to level the bed doesn’t stop once it breaks the beam and keeps going and hitting the nozzle
@@pizzanik Damn, I just headed off to work so I can't film them. There is a brief video of the Z-Stops in the construction playlist. I know I had to tighten the screw on the stops to the maximum when I did the z-stop calibration, and that left about an inch of clearance from when it homed and the end of the nozzle. Then, when the printing started the bed would rise higher and I had to set about -4.1 on the z-offset to raise the bed more in order for the first line to squish onto the glass.
Homie could print himself a bigger room
Hmmm... a 3D printed garden shed.... now there's an idea. 🙂