The other addition was a revised heated bed, which was originally to be controlled by an on/off switch but is now controlled in software/slicer (this is a good thing).Īnywho, now to the blissful experience I just had today. The one I now have has a vastly improved part cooling fan that actually wraps all the way around the nozzle. The final, shipped version, is different than the printer I originally backed. Ok so I'd really like to skip over the whole kickstarter process because its just a bag of angry cats, but, some things are worth noting. This is thread will serve as a photo/story dump of everything I do with this machine. 3D Printing News, Interviews & Editorials Supplied by 1682x105 12.2 KB TL DR I backed a "cheap" 3D printer on kickstarter and its not shit.Quick Navigation Tips, Tricks and Tech Help Top In the extruder case, it would also happen that for some time the stepper skipped and no plastic was pushed out, and later on it would push out plastic again but into thin air as the underlyiing layer was partially missing giving all kinds of blobs and mess collecting around the nozzle. No, I experienced skipped steps in the extruder (not enough plastic pushed out creating holes, bad fills, sometimes no plastic pushed out at all) and skipped steps in the X or Y directions (layers randomly shifting horizontally at random heights into the build). Interesting! Did you experience clogging as a result of this? And eventually totally clogged, resulting in filament gathering and coiling up inside the print head instead of extruding. I now do not use tight cable tie fixing for the cables but allow them to move more freely, preventing development (I hope) of weak spots in the cables. Replacing the cables with brand new ones resolved the issues in all 3 printers.
Apparently these cables are not up to continuous bending at stress points (cable ties used to fixate them) as the extruder head moves around. In all three cases it was the stepper motot cable that needed replacing. This was the extruder under-extruding (missing steps as I found out) on one printer, and the X or Y stepper missing steps (print suddenly shift several cm in x or y direction) on the the other two. I have had similar problems in 3 of my printers over the past months after long periods of heavy use.
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