<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/1770/creaking-and-groaning/ Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:31:44 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/17124/#p17124 iowajames wrote:

No problem, you can find it rather cheap at Harbor Freight if you have one in Houston. (Otherwise any auto store should have it, but HF is cheap)

Excellent, I love having excuses to go to Harbor Freight, it's like candy land...

]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:31:44 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/17124/#p17124 <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/17118/#p17118 No problem, you can find it rather cheap at Harbor Freight if you have one in Houston. (Otherwise any auto store should have it, but HF is cheap)

]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:51:24 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/17118/#p17118 <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/17112/#p17112 I'll go ahead and pick some grease up on the way home today, thanks for the help y'all!

]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:33:08 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/17112/#p17112 <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/17094/#p17094 Just try to keep from smearing grease on the belts. o.O

Edit: and yes, I had this happen recently, a touch of lithium grease on all the friction parts (smooth rods, threaded rods, etc.) will ease the groaning of your sliding parts.

]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:39:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/17094/#p17094 <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/16972/#p16972 white lithium (auto store) 3$ for a lifetime supply (probably not your life...but def the printer's)

]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:34:44 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/16972/#p16972 <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/16968/#p16968 I feel stupid, but what kind of grease do we use?

]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:21:02 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/16968/#p16968 <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/16955/#p16955 ronsii wrote:

Yeah, the pulleys and rods don't really need much just a smudge here and there should last for weeks but I haven't ran mine with a heated enclosure so not sure how that affects grease requirements.

I removed the top, and it seems to be helping, it's still there just not as loud.

]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:05:27 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/16955/#p16955 <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/16952/#p16952 Yeah, the pulleys and rods don't really need much just a smudge here and there should last for weeks but I haven't ran mine with a heated enclosure so not sure how that affects grease requirements.

]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 07:03:03 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/16952/#p16952 <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/16951/#p16951 Not recently, it's been 7 days since it got here... But I did Re allocate some grease from the top of the Z screw, I need to apply it to the X Idler pulley, I'm pretty sure that's the culprit

]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:57:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/16951/#p16951 <![CDATA[Re: Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/16950/#p16950 Have you added grease to the rods and idler pulley shafts(x and y) recently?

]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 06:50:03 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/16950/#p16950 <![CDATA[Creaking and groaning]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/16946/#p16946 I've been one a print for about 2.5 hours now and My solidoodle has been creaking and groaning since the 1hr mark, I've had this happen before. I'm just trying to determine if this is bad AKA end the print, or it's normal-ish...

Maybe my build area is too warm. Do y'all turn down the bed temp during long prints?

]]> Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:30:23 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/16946/#p16946