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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: X and Y calibration?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>So just to give a heads up with a problem that i had was that my extruder and carriage was a bit loose and it wobbled a lot.</p><p>You can adjust the carriage at the back and under of the extruder carriage. It&#039;s the 2 screws that hold the 2 white teflon blocks in place. Mine was loose and if i shook the motor it would wobble the entire carriage. Don&#039;t tighten them too much or the carriage wont move at all, just tight enough so that there&#039;s as little wobble as you can get and loose enough that there is free motion from left to right. There is the <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:44572">Solidoodle extruder head wobble preventer</a> (shown in the picture below) but i never got around to trying it out.</p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://www.soliforum.com/misc.php?action=pun_attachment&amp;item=1993&amp;download=0" alt="http://www.soliforum.com/misc.php?action=pun_attachment&amp;amp;item=1993&amp;amp;download=0" /></span></p><p>The extruder can be tightened using a wrench or ratchet under the wood plate and using something to stick in top holes to prevent the screws from spinning. I tightened mine but it always came lose after a while because the wood would just bend with the frequent temperature changes. Fixed it using <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:47561">Lawsy&#039;s jigsaw replacement. </a></p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://www.soliforum.com/misc.php?action=pun_attachment&amp;item=1992&amp;download=0" alt="http://www.soliforum.com/misc.php?action=pun_attachment&amp;amp;item=1992&amp;amp;download=0" /></span><br />(These aren&#039;t my pics, i was too lazy to take pics of my own.)</p><p>I still can&#039;t print perfect circles or precise parts, but it did make all my layers more uniform. If that doesn&#039;t help and you&#039;ve done all the calibrations that are recommended, then you probably need to fix it in the firmware.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[MeshMoth]]></name>
				<uri>https://www.soliforum.com/user/19/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-05-13T23:20:58Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: X and Y calibration?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I would like to know this as well. My Y is off by ~.4mm. I think the steps need adjusting??</p><p>Smitty</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Smitty505000]]></name>
				<uri>https://www.soliforum.com/user/1113/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-05-13T16:35:09Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[X and Y calibration?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;m at testing and calibrating. Printed a platter, 40 x 40 x 3 mm. I came out 40.5 x 39.6 x 3.5 mm when printing with .1 mm settings.</p><p>X vs Y are ~1 mm off, Z is ~0.5 mm off.</p><p>Is this a normal deviance? </p><p>Is the EEPROM the right place to adjust for the difference?</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Mats</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[fischelbyxa]]></name>
				<uri>https://www.soliforum.com/user/1430/</uri>
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			<updated>2013-05-12T13:19:49Z</updated>
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