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I'm working on leveling my Solidoodle 4 bed using a dial indicator and the back left corner is causing some issues. I have the other three corners level but back left is off by about 0.15mm. I realize this is a very small amount but is there a possible cause that anyone has encountered before? Am I just being too obsessive?
You are not being to obsessive! You most likely have a warped bed. 0.15mm is ALMOST acceptable. You may be able to adjust a little more - maybe not. You need to wait for heartless to come along, she just did a few posts on warped beds......
I forgot a key detail. I suspected a warped bed too and I had recently ordered a GeckoTek magnetic bed system. When I removed the stock bed and put the new one one, I had the same result. Granted, it's possible both have an issue but I'll look into heartless's posts to do some more research. Thanks!
After reading heartless's posts, I checked the bed with a straight edge and everything looks fine. Both axes and diagonals looks to be straight so I think I can eliminate a warped bed.
My dial indicator is mounted onto the extruder assembly. Could there be an issue with the carriage rods that could cause this? I'm reaching for straws at this point.
being as the SD4 uses a 3 point leveling system, it is interesting that you have issues with the left rear corner, but nowhere else...
how much compression is on the springs? (ie: how tight do you have the bed to the bed frame?)
I generally tighten mine up to get close to the upturned sides of the bed frame, then adjust the endstop screw to get close with the nozzle, then fine tune. This results in a good amount of compression on the springs keeping things nice and stable.
Note the slight curve in the springs? They are compressed that much. And, there is less than 10mms between the underside of the bed and the top edge of the bed frame. Once I did this and got the bed dialed in I hardly ever need to touch the leveling screws anymore.
(also of note - I use the Hale heat-beds on my SD4s - AWESOME product! this is why you do not see that ridiculous fiberglass cloth hanging all over the place)
A view of the top side...
I did change the end-stop screw for a longer one that was then cut to a custom length when I swapped over to an E3D v6 hotend.
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