i wear gloves any time i handle glass. lowes cut me one that had a very rough spot on an edge and it cut the hell out of my finger (no stitches needed, thank god). don't like to risk it with glass. definitely don't want exploding glass everywhere.

I agree with SD needing better packaging people. makes me worry what these 3 new models will arrive like. seems they already treat their SD4 like old foster kids needing a new home ASAP

GMBridge wrote:

cipher0 wrote:

The one on the extruder holding the extruder and the x axis belt together. kinda.

unless its very well hidden, there's no zipties there or anywhere else in my SD4

Also, once you get to calibrating, please post your results. I found that my machine was perfectly calibrated. No need to change extruder steps per mm, no need to adjust extrusion multiplier from 0.6, nothing... All I've ever had to do is bend that switch, tighten belts and balance the bed.

had a chance to run the printer yesterday, bent the z switch up, leveled the print bed, and did a 20mm calibration cube w/ the included starter filament. off the top of my head the x & y dimensions were 19.76mm & 20.02mm, so some small tweaks will be needed, but pretty good straight out of the box (haven't done any circle tests yet)

because the bed also gets in the way of removing the red clips on the X carriage--I had a really hard time with this because the bed prevented me from getting my fingers underneath adequately.

They switched to red clips now? lol

I couldn't agree with you more.
It's just a cheap colored paper printed on with a BW printer.
Some of the folks in their crew work really hard and make a very affordable 3d printer which can print quality 3d parts and is strong enoug that you can stand on it, then someone forgets to update the instructions on a piece of paper or let the person making those know that the address has changed.

So as far as I understand, since jagowilson notified Solidoodle about this, they won't be shipping any more printers in homed position, right?
Or should we send them another email suggesting this?

I have not suggested this to them. I only have anecdotal evidence to support that leaving your machine homed for a while is a bad idea--I've had to bend my Z switch back a few times from leaving it homed overnight or for a couple days when I didn't have time to print.

That being said, yes, it would probably be better if they didn't do this, because the bed also gets in the way of removing the red clips on the X carriage--I had a really hard time with this because the bed prevented me from getting my fingers underneath adequately. It'd probably be a good idea if they filled the printer with peanuts or something too; might stop people from getting printers with broken Z rods. You can't control UPS, but there are plenty of things they could do to decrease their DOA counts. In my opinion they aren't doing near enough, and should probably hire a packaging and shipping consultant.

My #1 suggestion is to stop shipping directions that lead to a 404, for the love of god, it's not hard, and I'd argue this is a far bigger deal than folks make it out to be. I've posted about it a couple times. It's unprofessional, and certainly a critical error.

AZERATE wrote:

cipher0 wrote:

Oh you got me!
You know whats funny? Im using a public login, and Im managing to mess with you here for so long. Not unexpected from you though. You derserve it though, dick...

This is hardly respectful or productive.
Please stop. PM Tim if you would like, but this will in no way help the community on any thread.

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and thanks a3393341 and jagowilson for getting back on topic...I thought for a moment that smoke was coming out of my CPU!

cipher0 wrote:

Oh you got me!
You know whats funny? Im using a public login, and Im managing to mess with you here for so long. Not unexpected from you though. You derserve it though, dick...

This is hardly respectful or productive.
Please stop. PM Tim if you would like, but this will in no way help the community on any thread.

+1