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| yotsuya:
Your progress is inspiring! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
| BadMouth:
The Y drive is back together. Everything fits inside the frame with absolutely no travel lost. The Y limit switches needed a home so I added a place for them last minute before printing. The back pulleys are a couple mm too high. I thought I had fixed this, but might have started with the wrong file when I added the limit switches. It will need at least one more revision, but I'm rolling with these parts for now to see if any other changes need made. I need to make a decision on whether or not to move the octopus board up between the motors before I can start rewiring everything. |
| BadMouth:
So I'm printing parts on the Voron 2.4 and they start looking weird. The back is perfectly fine, the front is missing starting at a certain layer. Filaments spool preload might be a little tight, so I loosen it up and start the next print. Again, printer stops extruding filament toward the front. Diagnosis = extruder motor wires are probably broken inside the drag chains. :banghead: I already went through this with the inductive sensor a month ago, but was hoping it as an isolated case. I guess the silicone ribbon cable I used just wasn't up to the task. So now a complete rewire of the toolhead is required when I'd rather be working on other things. Again, this is a horrible hobby. :angry: EDIT: Fixed after three hours of work. I had just enough of various color silicone wire to make a new run for the extruder motor. The only other run from the toolhead using the bad wire was for the induction sensor which already failed and was already replaced a month ago. Now my "by the book" black and red V2 has a rainbow of wiring colors. |
| bobbyb13:
The fortitude you guys have on getting/keeping these things running is admirable. And I thought learning CRTs was the ultimate time-suck. What a freakin rabbithole printing is. Like my neighbor the programmer (whose computer I used to play Zork on back in the mid 80's!) used to say about IBM. It actually stood for- Interesting But Maddening |
| Mike A:
If you spend the money and don't buy a kit, then a 3D printer is a tool that just works with minor maintenance. Same with a CNC machine. These guys are buying kits and they enjoy the tinkering. |
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