Solidoodle Press: First Impressions

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"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

Nah I think it's because I'm a new user. I get this message.

Too more links in message. Allowed 0 links. Reduce number of links and post it again.

Thanks!

Wth is up w extruder...how do they let something ship with what looks like a ton of melted plastic and use...smh

"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 would guess the first set of printers that shipped have many test hours on them. At least you can verify that the machine was tested before it left China.

Your printer needs a bit of calibration. That cube shows a couple of issues, just some over extrusion and moire.

I had no idea they officially released the Soliprint software. Looks like there is still some bugs.

After spending an evening with my press, I'm overall pretty happy. Things I've noticed:

- I got the terrible grinding sound when the printer attempted to home the print head. This was caused by the cable harness getting caught between the bar the extruder and printer frame, preventing the printer from hitting the X end stop. I shifted the plastic around the wires some to hold it up and it worked... mostly. I'm going to have to figure out a better solution.

- Soliprint isn't THAT bad an interface for a newbie, but it definitely has bugs. I loaded a couple STL's off Thingaverse (A couple calibration shapes) and they worked. I also exported a couple shapes from Sketchup and they loaded fine. The only real issue I had with the software itself was that it had some sort of black smudge along the edge of the print display.

- The printer stopped extruding after 20mm height of a 25mm calibration cube. I eventually noticed the extruder stepper motor was spinning but the extruder gear was not, and that the set screw on the side of the gear was sticking out. It looks like it worked itself out during the print/shipping. I was able to get it turned back in, but need to find a tiny angled allen wrench to tighten it properly.

- Solidoodle doesn't say it, but I'm definitely going to need to get a glue stick or hairspray for the bed. I attempted a raspberry pi case I made in sketchup and the warping was pretty bad by the 5th layer, so much that it knocked the print off the bed. I also had the door open a bit to watch the extruder gear, and top open to watch the cable harness, both of which could be to blame for the issue as well though.

also maybe we need a "WOW" factor rating since Sam promised this and that it would be well worth the wait (6 months verses 6 weeks.  like a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the WOW Im impressed!" as Sam said. cause so far Im seeing more like 0 to 5 with 5 being the 'usual Solidoodle DIY fixes needed" and 0 being 'failed to deliver operating printer even'.