Comment on Ender 3 v2 and new to 3D printing
squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Step 1: DO NOT DO ANY UPGRADES. Get your printer working, get familiar with printing. Step 2: Once you are comfortable with your printer, pick a single upgrade and do only that. Reassemble the printer completely, print something, get comfortable. Step 3: Once you are comfortable with the upgrade, repeat step 2 until the printer is good or you get bored with upgrading.
Every friend of mine who did “all the upgrades” at once ended up with a pile of garbage that they didn’t get back together and that I had to painstakingly fix for them.
Do only one at a time, and make sure you get good with your machine before doing upgrades.
Also, start with the small and simple upgrades before taking on the difficult ones.
discomatic@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Oh, absolutely lol I have my first print going now and I’m not doing anything to it that I don’t have to do… yet. It took me most of the day to figure out my firmware wasn’t functioning.
I had to replace the hot end because the tube was jammed and I couldn’t get the filament out. And I had to buy a screen because I’ll be damned if I’m plugging a random piece of hardware into my PC hahaha