Noob awaiting an SD4 (Page 1 of 3)

Also electrican by trade and day job, so if stuff like that needs to be changed inside, lay it on me.

"All your base are belong to us." SD4 with a RUMBA, supernight PS, 40mm fan on X motor, lawsey carriages with new better tolerance rods, flanged rear bearings, new NEMA 17 with leadscrew on Z-Axis, and e3d v6 with MK5.


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Thanks mate...yeah I have read a ton and thats consensus its fsr from out of box. I did just order e3d v6, will be picking up MK2 now, and have about 7 xbox psu's from modding em. So all seems well. Appreciate the help...heres to some heartache and tinkering for hours.

"All your base are belong to us." SD4 with a RUMBA, supernight PS, 40mm fan on X motor, lawsey carriages with new better tolerance rods, flanged rear bearings, new NEMA 17 with leadscrew on Z-Axis, and e3d v6 with MK5.


Ward and Jago are my heroes

No worries, ill have printer before mk2 and glass...just ordered those. Ill look at specs on stock one and xbox and see. You other help was more than enough. Youre a gentlemen and a scholar

"All your base are belong to us." SD4 with a RUMBA, supernight PS, 40mm fan on X motor, lawsey carriages with new better tolerance rods, flanged rear bearings, new NEMA 17 with leadscrew on Z-Axis, and e3d v6 with MK5.


Ward and Jago are my heroes

Search got me nowhere...wound up just browsing post by post for hours

"All your base are belong to us." SD4 with a RUMBA, supernight PS, 40mm fan on X motor, lawsey carriages with new better tolerance rods, flanged rear bearings, new NEMA 17 with leadscrew on Z-Axis, and e3d v6 with MK5.


Ward and Jago are my heroes

I know that results vary...

...but I've been running fine for a year on a stock SD4 power supply, printing directly on the original printbed (did recently replace the kapton tape), with just mods to add bearings for the Y-axis, and fans to the X-axis motor and nozzle.

My suggestion would be to get your SD4 calibrated and printing as well as you can, then decide from there what mods/upgrades you need.

I'd be glad to share any info on my SD4 setup and configuration.

The problem is not that all the info I listed is not easy to find and comprehensive. The problem is most of the info is not anywhere in the wiki. And it definitely won't be in the official wiki because people will see that they might need ton of mods to get the printer working properly and the Solidoodle 4's cost doesn't seem that important anymore when you add a power supply, heater, relay, bearings, rods, glass bed, etc, etc. No company is going to mention on their website that their product might not be anywhere perfect out of the box.

Problem is people like me and OneMoreCast have to join a forum and ask several questions and unless they are lucky wait for days, weeks or months to get a good idea on why their printer has so many issues and finally get it in usable condition.

Great community is great, but we don't have to make so many dublicate posts if we can have it somewhere and just link to it.

I'm not posting this for Solidoodle LLC expecting them to do anything about it, but for other members.

I've been meaning to write some articles actually.
Claghorn also has some useful info on his site that maybe he'd want to move or link to the wiki.
Talking about Soliwiki, not wiki.solidoodle.com. I don't think this kind of information will be kept there, I wouldn't be surprised if it was removed and write access to the wiki closed. It's basically anti-marketing.

Results will vary because your batch might just be using better quality parts or better calibrated (calibrated at all) in the factory.
I'd be glad if OneMoreCast's printer just works out of the box.

However, I've spoken with like 9 users here and over email and you're the first person to tell me your Solidoodle 4 printer works fine in stock condition.

When you say it runs fine, do you mean there's no adhesion issues near the edges of the bed (where there is no heater because it is smaller than the bed), and no backlash issues?
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:532915

https://i.imgur.com/bCyhsVx.png
https://i.imgur.com/GfnUPRp.jpg

Thanks guys, ive been toying with the software for weeks to try and knock down the time it would keep me from printing once its here. I ordered bed, glass already...I'll hold off on swapping them snd see out it goes stock. At least parts will be there if need be. Appreciate all the input.

"All your base are belong to us." SD4 with a RUMBA, supernight PS, 40mm fan on X motor, lawsey carriages with new better tolerance rods, flanged rear bearings, new NEMA 17 with leadscrew on Z-Axis, and e3d v6 with MK5.


Ward and Jago are my heroes

Knowack do you mind posting pics of added fans and bearings?! I did just order bearing set including ones gor mk5 and carriages and regular roller ones for extruder

"All your base are belong to us." SD4 with a RUMBA, supernight PS, 40mm fan on X motor, lawsey carriages with new better tolerance rods, flanged rear bearings, new NEMA 17 with leadscrew on Z-Axis, and e3d v6 with MK5.


Ward and Jago are my heroes

Most MK2A/B heatbeds I've seen on ebay have the thermistor presoldered. Not a big deal.

Also if you'll ever damage your glass, you can just get one 3mm thick 20x20 cm or 8x8'' cut somewhere locally for few bucks.

I'd also get 3 686zz flanged bearings in case you'll have friction and will want to replace the 3 back bushings. http://www.soliforum.com/post/74861/#p74861

Print yourself Y axis modded brackets which use bearings too,
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:391490

And maybe use this if I'll need to upgrade to a carriage which uses linear bearings: http://www.soliforum.com/topic/8977/alt … ng-method/

And if you'll need to upgrade to the MK2B heatbed, you'll need an upgraded PSU and a SSR.
http://www.soliforum.com/post/75629/#p75629
http://www.soliforum.com/post/77347/#p77347
I've found both locally so I wouldn't worry about ordering it just in case to not have downtime when I'll need to.

PLA plastic doesn't have much warping issue like the officially supported ABS.

You did just mention you added 3 bearings.

Can you please try printing this and showing your results? http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:532915
It can be hard to notice as the backlash reaches <0.2mm like for me.
Everyone who has told me they don't have backlash issues have noticed they actually do when looking at this print. me too.

Been there, done that... http://www.soliforum.com/topic/8199/odd … t-results/

Except the fans. Any STLs for that?

Let us know of your progress.

BTW, maybe give the stock hotend a try before upgrading to E3D. Unless you need to use non ABS/PLA filament with higher melting point, I don't think the stock hotend on SD4 is bad, unlike everything else

Print the parts  you need for the upgrade, that way you will have them when your ready to change in case your hotend messes up on  you.