twizttid1
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- Comment on How do I make this work? Or should I give up? 3 weeks ago:
What firmware and version are you running? Marlin? Have you ever reflashed your firmware? Typically you need to tweak the settings in your firmware to turn some features on. For me I had to edit the firmware out of the box to enable mesh bed leveling logic and to add the BL touch adapter. BL touch is used by the printer to measure the distance from the print head to the plate and it auto adjusts the Z-stop… You absolutely need a solid mount for it because it needs to take as accurate a reading as possible…
- Comment on How do I make this work? Or should I give up? 3 weeks ago:
Oh man… Sounds like when I dipped into the hobby… I quickly learned that there’s different aspects to it. If you just want to print stuff you need to sink money into a decent printer like a flash forge adventurer 5m. Set n forget… It’ll print you want you want with little fuss. If you get in on the cheap then the machine itself is a whole other aspect that you need to learn and tune…and with tolerances being so tight in 3d printing … It’s hard!!! The number 1 thing that fails prints 98% of the time is first layer adhesion.
This can be corrected if you can enable mesh bed leveling… No print surface is perfectly flat. Mesh bed leveling measured 9-12 different points on the bed surface and adjusts for the non-flatness as it prints. The BL touch adapter makes that process easy- but not cheap. As for your print surface get a glass sheet to print on like a borosilicate glass plate from Geeetech. Make sure you adjust your Z-stop!! The other aspect that messed with me and really through me for loop was the feeder motors and if they’re feeding enough material. Others mentions step calibration… definitely do this. For me, the arm within the motor that presses the filament against the wheel had a hailline crack that I couldn’t see… It wasn’t applying enough pressure and the printer kept under extruding even though it calibrated right. I swapped those arms out for metal ones and never looked back… But that cracked arm really left me frustrated for weeks until I just unassembled the motor to discover the crack. It’s only a machine… You can win! Get a few good prints, don’t be too ambitious yet, and get your confidence up… It’s a good fun hobby!