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			<title><![CDATA[Re: First print success...after a long day of tweaking!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Nicely designed part nlancaster! I design on alibre (now geomagic), how about you? As for calibration, I did do it once. I will recheck, thank you for spotting it. I have not done the PID autotune yet, so perhaps some thermal banding is coming from this too. My hot end temps looked like a yo yo on the chart in RH.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 01:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: First print success...after a long day of tweaking!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>yay my x-axis fan mount <img src="https://www.soliforum.com/img/smilies/big_smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="big_smile" /></p><p>Never seen a picture of someone else printing one.&nbsp; </p><p>I think you might need to check your extruder calibration.&nbsp; Looks like you have some extra material squeezing out in a few places.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (nlancaster)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 01:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[First print success...after a long day of tweaking!]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Just thought I&#039;d share my first print experience. What I have to say has certainly been talked about before on this forum, but I thought some of the newbie owners, like me, would still appreciate what I went through (on my sd3).</p><p>In the photo you will see my third failed print, and my first successful print. BTW, I&#039;m printing nlancaster&#039;s 40mm fan housing for the x axis motor that I downloaded from thingiverse. Thank you nlancaster! Feeling how hot my x axis motor got printing this part, I think it was a prudent first print choice. (my second print will be a fan duct for the electronics, of my own design, more on this later...).</p><p>If you zoom into the photo, you can see that the part on the left has four distinct y axis layer shifts. After killing this job in RH, I went on the hunt for answers, and I went for the low hanging fruit first - lubrication and belt tension on the y axis. FYI, trouble shooting info can be pretty easily found at soliforum, soliwiki, both solidoodle sites. </p><p>After adjusting the belts and greasing the rods, the y-axis movement still felt like it should move easier. That&#039;s when I had a sneaking suspicion there might be binding in the y-axis idler pulley assemblies. After removing the idler pulley it was clear that little assembly grease actually made it to the mating surfaces. Since the idler pulley doesn&#039;t really have a bearing, just an aluminum bearing surface, it&#039;s pretty important you get some lube on them, imo. I lubed them up with Ultra lube brand plant based white lithium grease. I then added some dupont brand&nbsp; teflon multi-use lube to the y-axis drive shaft bushings, mainly because I couldn&#039;t figure out how to get grease into these two bronze bushings. I think (hope) the teflon lube will do the trick here, otherwise I&#039;ll switch out the bushings to roller bearings that other folks on this forum have upgraded to. But only if there is a problem later. Another problem was that one of the drive pulley screws was not very tight. Use a 1.5mm hex wrench, but not one with a ball! The ball tipped wrench I used slipped and almost stripped out the screw. Ball drives are awesome for most other screws on the solidoodle, but not these. So anyway, after lubing, adjusting, and tightening the screws, my problem was.....er....still the same. That said, you should feel how smooth my y-axis moves!</p><p>Next up was checking the voltage to the stepper motors. Go to solidoodle to learn how to do this. Be VERY VERY careful where you poke your multi meter probes and ajustment screw driver. My voltage was too low, .39 volts. I set it to .52 volts, what solidoodle recommends. Needless to say, my shifting y-axis problem was solved! I also hedged my bets and placed a personal fan behind the controller. So, I&#039;m not sure what exactly finally cured the problem. The voltage increase to the stepper or the fan. I actually could care less because I think cooling fans are essential anyway.</p><p>Final thoughts: Solve your problems step by step, and don&#039;t dispair. Go to all the resources mentioned above. Search the forum for goodness sakes! (The other day I took apart my extruder to remove some filament, but had I searched this forum, I would have solved the problem in 8 seconds, maybe 5. Thanks again cmetzel!). Grease your idler pulleys, they may have little to no grease on them. Print a fan housings for your x axis stepper and controller. And, while you&#039;re at it, you might as well print some spare printer parts, especially an extruder. ABSOLUTELY check out Ian&#039;s blog on how to set up Repetier Host. Then...go have some fun printing cool stuff!!!!!!</p><p>p.s. Sorry for the upside down photo...</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 23:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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