Spent all weekend assembling this Core One. It probably took 14 hours in total. 12 hours to build and 2 hours to troubleshoot issues. Broke some parts made some mistakes but I finished the build.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’m not going to say it was smooth sailing but I think I’m through the rough waters. This past day I’ve been printing basically non-stop and every print has been pretty much flawless.

    The days before this though I had:

    • Diagnose z-axis movement issues.
    • Accidentally printed PETG onto the smooth bed plate. (I knew this was bad but I just assumed it was bad adhesion, I didn’t realize the problem was the opposite LOL)
    • Broke the belt tension adjustment piece and had to drill holes into it to remove it and replace it with a piece I printed with PETG.
    • Diagnose a “ghost clog” where I took off the nozzle, found no clog, took apart the nextruder and found nothing and realized at the end it was bad filament.
    • Foexle@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 hours ago
      • I wasn’t even able to put the printer together without reading the comments pointing to waaay too many flaws in the instructions.
      • Well, I learned that with the smooth plate the hard way too.
      • Don’t get me started on that one. The nut in the ajustmend-thingy broke loose on mine, after I had to tentioned the belts way too often, cause the Axis bent. I had to saw the screw of at the front to get it out. Whole process took me about a month.
      • I put the spacer hooks of the heatbed on the wrong way, and changing them when the printer is essembled. Well, a friend who repairs washing mashines for a living helped me out.
      • The ghost clog is interesting too. I’m on my third nozzle now, trying to clean number two and three. Seems like a clog on the seperation of filament in front of the vulcano-split (high flow) and by the love of god I can’t seem to het them unclogged. I soked them in cemecals to break the plastic-chains. The design is so annoying to get to in any way, cause at least as a amateur, you only realize the clog when its too late. (and I know that that might break some cotings of the hardened steel nozzle, but a this point, I tried anything else) So yea, I hope you’re printing adventure is smoother than mine.