ive had this hunk of junk for 5 months now without it working, moving from forum to forum trying to find a way to fix this before i decide to scrap it.
it “prints” but looks nothing like it needs to, help before i smash the thing im getting sick of wasting time on it.
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Hi @ddman114 it’s very difficult to provide any help without some more details of what you’ve done to try and fix the problem yourself. From the photos, it looks like you’ve got a layer height issue where successive layers are not close enough to the previous one (and the filament is therefore simply extruding into the air, rather than being bonded to the layer below), but it could be more than that, or something else.
Is this a self-build or a kit? Who was the supplier - this is clearly not an original Prusa…
it was a kit sold on amazon I believe it said sold and shipped by more dental but manufactured by Geetech.
the kit had good reviews when I bought it (40ish) and they were relatively good, some were “its not working” but I thought that’s
because they didn’t do it right like when I first built the thing. The printer looks pretty much identical to other aluminum prusa i3s
What ive done is reinstalled the firmware twice, one for the original and once for the lead screw, the lead screw one made the
motors move extremely slow so I thought that wasn’t the right one and went back to the original. Ive leveled the whole thing about
a million times now and adjusted the z stop a multitude of times.
Could it be the extruder tube isn’t long enough or a firmware problem.
I have gotten it to print a bit better now it atleast looks like a cube but the layers arnt printing right on top of one another
