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Edit: Oops, looked at the picture wrong and thought that you were asking about the pulley on the long shaft, not the bearing on short shaft. Don’t know what that one is, but if you measure the shaft diameter, the outer diameter w/o the flange, and the thickness. You should be able to find it on goo…
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Material? Bed and Extruder Temp? Bed surface material? A video on YouTube or such of the first row of cubes printing would be immensely helpful. Check all the connections on your z-axis. Loose couplers, misaligned gantry, bent screws, plastic or dirt in the z-screws, steppers not aligned in the …
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Not in the case of a printer. In some situations a heavier mass with a flexible interface (think of a block of cement on rubber pucks) can protect a target (like optics sitting on the cement) from vibrations (like a truck driving down the street outside). In this case the vibration travels through t…
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Moving mass is always a negative causing lower acceleration and more vibrations, so unless you have a reason for a heavy material, stick with the lightest solution. Biggest reasons to add weight with metal to the carriage are to 1) be more heat tolerant to avoid softening or warping near the hot end…
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Agree, but not what I’m talking about. The learning curve is an investment, but most people new to 3D printing tend to have this vision of doing a quick sketch and having the printer reliably turn out exactly what they drew when the reality is that there is alot more restrictions and iteration to ge…
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Be very careful of your expectations for the use case you are discussing. I’d strongly suggest that you try out the workflow with one of those colleagues’ 3D printer you’ve been talking to and see if it really is going to do what you expect with the class of printer you are discussing. You need to a…
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That sounds like eithier you are over extruding, or still running too hot for your PLA. Start by printing a 1cm cube at 100% infill. Look at the top of the cube and if it is bulging up it’s over extruding. Dial back the extrusion multiplier till the bulge goes away and you get a slight sinking in th…
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Great news! Have fun!
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That looks like a very small z-hop to me - just a fraction of a layer. Any ooze will end up dragged across the face and you *may* even get some remelting as the head skims over. I personally use .5 mm z-hop and haven’t seen a gain to make it worth lowering. I also use a 5mm min travel, but that shou…
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Second this as this reminds me of prints I was getting when I was printing PLA small objects with no fan. The plastic was not having enough time too cool before the next layer came around and hence previous layer would get pulled around by the next layer. Corners would curl up as the previous layer …
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Don’t have your setup, but stringing is unlikely to be due to the gCode flavor, but it may give you access to more configuration options in Cura. Suggest you take a look at this. Great guide for several different issues. https://www.simplify3d.com/support/print-quality-troubleshooting/#stringing-or…
