On Friday 17 July 2020 12:30:16 Martin Dobbins wrote: > There ought to be a list where owners can trade ideas for best > results. > > My google-fu didn't find it. > > Is there? > > I don't think there is an "official" one on the Creality site, but > there are forums like this: > > https://www.thingiverse.com/groups > > which include Ender 3, you might also get some tips from users of > other, similar printers. > > There's one on Facebook (not my thing, but ymmv) > > https://www.facebook.com/groups/1275880512515568/ > > You could wade through here for anything useful: > > https://3dprintboard.com/forumdisplay.php?64-Tips-Tricks-and-Tech-Help > > They do have a search to help find stuff. > > Then there's: > > https://hardforum.com/forums/3d-printers-projects.151/ > > Not exactly what you're looking for but all my google-fu could locate > <grin> > > Regards, > > Martin > Thanks Martin. I did get a surprise, and of coarse its its the background story of my life, I always buy the model thats being replaced. And while I'm not going to throw a lot more money at it, the ender 3 v2, is now in the pipeline.
I watched someone building it, and it has several newer features I like, but that build also gave be some ideas on readjusting mine. And I think I did hit a lick. I restarted a big sprocket 4 times today, after switching the starter code to have it build a raft, which at the diameter its working at, is nearly a 2 hour job all by itself. Anyway after readjusting everything, I started the job over everytime it drew a long line and ran out of plastic, so I stopped it, cleaned the mag pad, added 5.00 to the extruder feed, and gave it another go. After 4 restarts it laid down the first two layers of a raft, with no missing lines and only one little bump, all while running at 20 lb paper clearance, so the lines it was laying down were about 50% coverage, but no missing gaps because it ran out of PLA. Its still doing the 4th layer, at 100% coverage even though the temps went down 10C to 215 for the nozzle, and 65C for the bed. It will run at those temps forthe next 11 hours. And we will see what sort of a sprocket we get for a 180 toothx8mm wide supposedly with GT-2_3mm teeth. Supposedly making a drive for a Meade DS-10 I've had for 20+ years. If that works, I'll have to build a shed for it. What I've found on the web seems to say that black PLA needs more heat for normal stuff and even more for starter adhesion. So after 3 weeks of screwing with this, I might be getting somewhere! Finally. Maybe... Cheers & stay safe and well Martin, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
