Fix z-banding w/ no backlash- "Slop Nut" (Level 2 techie - Consumer ) (Page 3 of 7)

I have determined this from experience with machining on lathes an and mills for 20 years.

Seriously dude, learn some knowledge of precision before you slam it.

(oh and I am not your dude)

I tell you what, I will stop post here as you feel your above learning from some one who was born before you and you havent learned how to be polite to people.

Terrible forum that has rude members like Adrian.

C'mon gents, let that be the end of it.

One of the things I like about this forum is the complete lack of flame wars. Let's keep it that way.

Nice 2n2r5, I'll print this out shortly and have a go and compare with what I have already. wont be in the next day or so though as my printer is pretty much tied up for at least a week ...

I got my printer last november and have pretty much been on these boards every day since... trying to learn and improve.

However, I'm at the point that my printer is running as sweet as it can and I dont need nor want to strip it down to upgrade... the prints truly are amazing now and that - for me at least - is in the main down to tealvinces m3 drive rod upgrade.. AND lawsy, danny, rincewind, ian johnson tim elmore etc etc etc...  but not only these guys also latterly to EVERYONE such as yourself 2n , adrian etc...many thanks for all you guys efforts... youve helped turn a poor piece of equipment into somethign that is creating quality prints,,,, I now no longer need to live my life on these boards...

(and I agree with lawsy...there are many times I want to shout at someone (jeffreysanders anyone lol ) but refrained because in general its a real good bunch here and i dont want to stoop to others crass levels...)

as said, I'll get to this as soon as  I can and thanks again guys

happy weekend all!!

This way was actually just the easiest way to have all files in one place. I am having trouble getting it to work actually. I think the program I used to convert the stl files didn't make them manifold. I think I just need to separate each component. Grrr.

EDIT:
So when you use http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:64709 or  http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:64709 to convert STL files to scad, it's best to convert 1 component at a time. NOW my customizer works as it should. Never said that I was good at it. lol

I thought this was a nice setup so I tried out you slopnut for original 5/16 with aluminum and it virtually eliminated my horizontal banding .3 -.1  Thanks for the design B-)

Yes I did.  I pressed a 5/16th nut into the box from your design and bolted it down at the four corners using the preexisting holes around the original boss nut.  I considered removing the original nut but figured I'd try it as is first.  At first I had the 4 small nuts too tight and froze everything but after a small adjustment everything worked nicely and I tightened down an additional nut on each of the 4 bolts to lock the each first nut in place.  My first run after the new mod was added was quite a bit smoother than stock I don't think you could get it much nicer.  I've only run a couple tests but I will post pictures when I get home from work today.

Absolutely.  I'd be happy to take pictures of my setup and videos if that's required.  Whatever helps out the cause I'm game.

Yea part on the left is the small test run.  For some reason the camera gives the impression of more texture than there is in reality.  In my hand the difference is obvious and puts stock parts to shame.

Not to beat this thread to death but here is a couple at .37 with very fast settings.

Hi,
Can you post a few photos of what your mod looks like?
Thanks,
Matt

It's been a week or two since I did this fix and I have to say, good work 2n2r5, I think the results speak for themselves. Ignore the edges, didn't realize I had slic3r doing random gen of starting points for each layer so it sort of screwed up the edges of the blocks. The last one is in PLA, been working on getting a good setup for switching back and forth between ABS and PLA.