discussion 3D Printer / CNC discussion thread

[Arinoth]

At a glance it almost looks like you should lower your purge and include a prime tower. I found with the bit of multicolor stuff I have done the prime tower better avoids well voids and bleeding than relying strictly on purge.

This is WITH a prime tower, it seems to do best with a prime tower and max purge from black and clear with at least the bleeding part.

 

[Izerous]

This is WITH a prime tower, it seems to do best with a prime tower and max purge from black and clear with at least the bleeding part.

With prime tower I have no idea the petg usually prints just as easily as pla for me

 

[sswilson]

I'm going to try this one.......

Pastamatic Filament Spool Winder for Bambu X1C/P1P AMS (level winder with self reversing leadscrew) - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld

Download this free 3D print file designed by GekoPrime. I tried another spool winder but found it finicky and delicate.I designed this winder from scratch to be simple and robust, using the same self reversing leadscrew mechanism found on industrial cable windersWhy pick this model:Prints on a...

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Holy crap though.... that first plate looks like it's designed to fail. (I'm trying it on the cool plate in the hopes that adhesion on the taller parts won't be an issue)

edit: Initial layer looks like it went down properly.

Worked like a charm. A bit tricky regulating the speed while using a cordless drill/screwdriver, but it works well and distributes the filament across the width of the roll.

I wasn't sure if I could just tape the rfid tag onto the new roll so I put it back on the original and left the tag in place. Hopefully I won't have any more issues with this roll not wanting to feed into the AMS correctly.

 

[Arinoth]

With prime tower I have no idea the petg usually prints just as easily as pla for me

For some reason this and similar models it just refuses to and I feel like I've tried everything and still can't get a clean print like with pla

 

[lowfat]

Have 2 rolls of same filament in AMS If there is a issue with 1 roll not feeding, why can't the printer use the other roll? Pretty ridiculous IMO.

Almost as dumb as not being to resume a print with a similar but different colour.

 

[Arinoth]

Almost as dumb as not being to resume a print with a similar but different colour.

I've been able to do this before recently, I told it to use the same spot and it assumed it was the same colour.

 

[lowfat]

I've been able to do this before recently, I told it to use the same spot and it assumed it was the same colour.

The problem it needs manual intervention.


Today I tore apart my 2 DIY Klipper CoreXY machines . One of them was built 100%. Just needed a Klipper config written. The other was complete minus assembling the gantry. Problem was they both shared the same Z gantry design I thought should work, but it just didn't. It was almost impossible to level (should only need to be done once). Doubly so since they were enclosed and I couldn't reach the required parts. I hadn't touched either printer in over 3 years. So time to move on.

In the next couple weeks I may try to fix my Prusa MK3S.

 

[Izerous]

Well have the new hotend in place, and ran a PID calibration test but didn't try to print anything... honestly tempted to grab a BTT Eddy Duo and replace the firmware seeing how much faster an eddy current bed "probing" is. The BTT one suposedly works on the K1 series printers that have a CFS, where the Cartographer variant is supposedly missing some firmware to support the CFS.