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RicoBerto@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I just received a nice Sprite Pro direct drive extruder and all metal hotend for my Ender 3V2. Spend a night ripping the thing apart and transplanting the new stuff in. Change some settings, tram the bed in, pid tune; all the things.
About to load some filament and do a test print when I hear twang… “Wtf”.
Look over at the printer… and the x axis belt had snapped.
Now I get to stare at it for a week.
Feeling the pain my guy.
Gompje@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m a women but I feel you my guy! 😉
Stay strong, I know from first hand with an Ender you need a loooooot of patience and then some.
My first printer was the Ender3v1. Pre Corona. Hell even printed things to help people make mouth guards during Corona… aaah the memories… (bit /s) What happened you ask? Well I upgraded almost everything on that one. The board. The fans. The plate. Automatic leveling,… but not the extruder that was my limit. At that point the upgraded were the same price as the printer
And boy it was magic! The silence. The automatic leveling, man great times! Until it wasn’t. You see this printer was fine for a while and then suddenly it said: f you! And I would spend hours tinkering with it. Time I did not have.
So at one point I had enough. Bought a mini on announce day, waited almost a year till they delivered and never looked back. Gave the Ender to my dad, and now he got the upgrade to the mini.
The Ender? Sits in a box. We gave up after yet another under extrusion problem, and gave the monies to another model instead.
So … if anyone lives in Eu/Belgium and is in need of spare parts for an Ender3? Shoot. I have lots. 😜